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Sherlock@Home Teaser

Check out the trailer for our comedy web-series about a stay-at-home dad detective

Sherlock@Home: Good Cop/Dad Cop

While we’re still waiting on a release date for this fun webseries to air, the broadcaster has made available our trailer. Have a look, laugh and look forward to more.

Go Forth and Murder, my episode of True Crime TV show, If I Should Die, now available on Investigation Discovery.

Go Forth and Murder written by Christopher Sweeney
Go Forth and Murder, season finale to If I Should Die, true crime series produced by Cream Productions airing on Investigation Discovery

Pumped to see this trailer for Go Forth and Murder, my episode of If I Should Die, now streaming. Season finale, no less. Shout out to Cream Productions and Investigation Discovery. Looking forward to it being on Bell Media channels shortly.

My sketch comedy TV/web-series, La Junta, is now screening in Colombia.

Sketch comedy TV/webseries La Junta
A dysfunctional parent council, half-hearted school staff and the poor kids who have to put up with them. Who are the actual grown ups at this school?

Based on our original show, ‘Parental Advisory’, this sketch comedy TV/web-series is currently airing in Colombia but will have some sketches available on Facebook and Instagram worldwide. Produced by LuloFilms and Canal Capital.

Newest Pop Culture Post

Interesting Hollywood Reporter article on how current animated films are taking on traditional “toxic-masculinity” roles in such films as Into The Spiderverse, Ralph Breaks the Internet and the Lego Movie 2. I quibble with some of what the writer talks about and in fact, I’d argue that she misses the point about what these traditional stories are attempting to explore. In many ways these movies are just  old wine in new bottles and are doing so in a pretty obvious ‘of the moment’ virtue-signalling way but it’s a good starting point for discussions about what makes a ‘good man’. MORE

POP CULTURE: The Dobler Effect

The latest humour/parenting post on POP CULTURE: The Dobler Effect where I discuss the cautionary tale of following the advice in ‘Say Anything.’

Image result for say anythingTHE DOBLER EFFECT

“Lloyd Dobler? All right.”

That line is from the great Gen X teen romantic comedy film, ‘Say Anything.’ In it, good guy optimist oddball aspiring kick-boxer Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) invites the beautiful and brainy valedictorian Diane Court (Ione Skye) to the high school graduation party – and, to the amazement and respect of all and sundry, she agrees. But more than that, people surprisingly respect Diane for saying yes. Lloyd and Diane go on to have a summer romance which her father (John Mahoney) sabotages as he fears this with threaten Diane’s academic future. Dobler does not quit but wins her back with a grand romantic gesture. [MORE}