<P> On January 12, 2015, CBC renewed the show for a second season . Production resumed during the second week of April 2015 . </P> <P> 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 10, 2017 . </P> <P> On March 10, 2017 the show was renewed for a fourth season . </P> <P> The series stars Eugene Levy as Johnny Rose, a wealthy video store magnate, and Catherine O'Hara as his wife Moira, a washed up soap star . The couple loses all their money because of their crooked business manager's theft and failure to pay their taxes and are forced to rebuild their lives in their only remaining asset: the small town of Schitt's Creek, which they once bought as a joke gift for the birthday of their son . They wind up living in two adjacent rooms of a rundown motel with their pampered thirty - something adult children: the son, David, and a daughter, Alexis . The cast includes Daniel Levy, Annie Murphy, Chris Elliott, Jennifer Robertson and Emily Hampshire . The show is based on a series of situations contrasting the once - rich family and their big - city, worldly attitudes suddenly with small - town living and the honest, down - to - earth, hard - working folk who live in Schitt's Creek . </P>

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