Image Credit: IFCEveryone’s favorite Canadian cross-dressing comedy troupe is back with tonight’s premiere of their eight-part murder-mystery miniseries The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town (IFC, 10 p.m. ET). It’s got everything fans of Mark McKinney, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Dave Foley, and Scott Thompson want, as evidenced by the photo above. They each play multiple characters, but that’s McKinney as Death, who arrives in Shuckton, Ontario on a Greyhound bus and rides around on a bone-covered Mustang bike; McCulloch as Ricky, a 600 lb. shamed ex-hockey star who has been in his house since he lost the big game; McDonald as Marnie, Ricky’s only friend, an old woman who’s the local pizza delivery person and has Alzheimer’s; Foley as Marilyn, the gloriously alcoholic wife of the town’s soon-to-be-deceased mayor (McCulloch); and Thompson as Dusty, the coroner. Watch the trailer. We sat down with four of the five Kids in New York City last Friday during their media tour. McCulloch had already skipped town, but we chatted with him last fall when cameras rolled. Plus, the others were happy to imagine what he would have contributed to the conversation…
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: During your recent IFC Live chat (watch from 28:00), the most fun you had was reminiscing about the time on your 2008 tour when Scott rolled off the stage during the Headcrusher encore in San Francisco and fell into the orchestra pit and down some stairs. What’s one thing you know you shouldn’t laugh at another guy in the troupe for, but you just can’t help yourself?
Dave Foley [putting away his phone after reading a text]: Apparently I looked hot on TV last night.
Kevin McDonald: Who said that?
Foley: A girl.
Mark McKinney: That’s laughable.
Scott Thompson: Dave’s acrimonious divorce would be one.
McKinney: Bracket-s-closed brackets. [Foley laughs]
Foley: My father’s stroke was good for some laughs in 2000.
Thompson: Yes, it was. My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity. [He filmed Death Comes to Town in between chemo and radiation after being diagnosed with large B-cell non-Hodgkin’s gastric lymphoma last spring.]
McKinney: I don’t know. Something better.
Foley: Better than cancer? READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Janet Mayer/PR PhotosMaggie Gyllenhaal, never one to shy away from sexuality whether she’s doubled over on a desk in Secretary or breastfeeding in Away We Go, will star in Hysteria, an indie rom-com centering on the invention of the vibrator, Variety reports. Per the trade, she’ll play the daughter of a doctor (Jonathan Pryce), who, along with his young colleague (Hugh Dancy) is treating cases of female hysteria in Victorian London. Dancy and his best friend (Rupert Everett) experiment with a new electrical device to treat the, let’s call it irritability, that in those days, some medical practitioners cured with a manual pelvic massage.
