<P> Schitt's Creek (stylized as Schitt Creek) is a Canadian television sitcom created by Eugene Levy and his son Dan Levy, that premiered on CBC Television on January 13, 2015 . The series is produced by Not a Real Company Productions . On January 12, 2015, CBC renewed the show for a second season . The second season premiered in Canada on January 12, 2016 on CBC . It was announced on February 17, 2016, that the CBC renewed the show for a third season which began broadcasting on January 11, 2017 . On March 10, 2017 the show was renewed for a fourth season, which aired on January 9, 2018 on CBC . On March 6, 2018 the show was renewed for a fifth season to air in early 2019 . </P> <P> The series has won various accolades, including an ACTRA Award and 11 Canadian Screen Awards . </P> <P> The series stars Eugene Levy as Johnny Rose, a wealthy video store magnate, and Catherine O'Hara as his wife Moira, a formerly successful soap star . The family loses their fortune when their business manager fails to pay their taxes . They are forced to rebuild their lives with their sole remaining asset: a small town named Schitt's Creek which they had bought their son as a joke birthday gift years before . The story revolves around the family's life living in two adjacent rooms of a rundown motel with their pampered twenty - something adult children, David and Alexis, played by Dan Levy and Annie Murphy respectively . Additional cast includes Chris Elliott, Jennifer Robertson and Emily Hampshire . The show is based on a series of situations contrasting the once - rich family and their worldly big - city attitudes with sudden small - town living and the honest, down - to - earth, hard - working residents of Schitt's Creek . </P> <P> The series is filmed on location in Goodwood, Ontario, the Regional Municipality of Durham of the Greater Toronto Area, and Mono, Ontario, where the motel scenes are filmed . The interior scenes for the first two seasons were filmed at Pinewood Toronto Studios in Toronto, while the interior scenes for the third season were shot at Dufferin Gate Studios in Toronto . </P>

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