Moose TV is a Canadian television sitcom, airing on Showcase in the 2007-08 television season.
The show stars Adam Beach as George Keeshig, a Cree from the fictional community of Moose in northern Quebec, who returns home after a decade living in Toronto to become manager of the local community television station. The cast also includes Gary Farmer, Jennifer Podemski, Nathaniel Arcand, Michelle Latimer, Diane Flacks and Billy Merasty. The show's head writer is Paul Quarrington. The series was directed by Tim Southam.
Produced by Rezolution Pictures for the Showcase network in Canada, the series received the Indie Award for Best Comedy Series from the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association in 2008.
Episodes
Cast
Season 1
1. Birth of a Station
5th Jul 2007
George returns to Moose and starts a community TV station with his best friend Clifford and the beautiful Robin, despite resistance from his father, Moose's corrupt mayor. Joan launches a kids' show featuring a militant activist sock puppet called "Me and My Beaver"
2. Ernie Makes a Drum
12th Jul 2007
Clifford quits Moose TV, and Robin's party-girl sister Alice hitches a ride to Moose with the mayor. The Beaver airs an incriminating photograph of the mayor on "Me and My Beaver." Ernie doesn't actually make a drum on his TV show "Ernie Makes a Drum"…again.
3. Well, What Do You Know?
19th Jul 2007
George adds some pizzazz to Moose TV with a game show, the mayor plots to win the money, and Megog the Destroyer gets his way. Alice makes advances towards Clifford.
4. Surviving Moose
26th Jul 2007
The illicit activities of some of Moose's citizens threaten to catch up with them. George turns Clifford's nature retreat for lawyers into "Survivor: Moose."
5. Technical Difficulties
2nd Aug 2007
George breaks the station's transmitter, Germans parachute into Moose to perform spiritual "intercourse with nature," and George and Gerry get into a fistfight.
6. Foreign Film
9th Aug 2007
A film crew comes to town to film "Geronimo" and hires George as their community liaison. Despite his better judgement Clifford is convinced by George to take a role in the movie. Alice gets a role on "Me and My Beaver," and the murderous Jack Pratt turns up in Moose.
7. Soap Opera
16th Aug 2007
Robin films a historical re-enactment of the founding of Moose and casts herself as the village slut. Joan and Beaver go undercover for some hard-hitting investigative journalism. Gerry confronts George about his past dalliance with Alice and Robin overhears them. A brawl breaks out at the station.
8. Jack Pratt
23rd Aug 2007
George stages a telethon to save Moose TV, Gerry makes a deal with mining magnate Warner W. Warner, the murderous Jack Pratt turns up in town to kill George, and Ernie finishes making his drum.