Rabbittown is a Canadian television comedy film, which aired on CBC Television on January 3, 2006."Let's hope 'Scrubs' will be appreciated soon". Regina Leader-Post, January 3, 2006. It aired alongside Cheap Draft, with This Space for Rent airing the following evening, as part of "Comedy Week", a project to test the potential audience for the three shows as pilot episodes."Vancouver sitcom among CBC's new comedic series". Vancouver Sun, December 30, 2005.
The program starred Adriana Maggs as Louanne and Sherry White as Odelette, frenemies who work together at a hair salon in the Rabbittown neighbourhood of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The program's advertising tagline was "Happiness is being one step ahead of your best friend."Leah McLaren, "Meet my best frenemy". The Globe and Mail, May 6, 2006.
The cast also included Brenda Bazinet, Phil Churchill, Steve Cochrane, Blair Harvey, Joel Thomas Hynes, Andy Jones and Matt Lemche. Maggs and White were the writers and producers.
Rabbittown had the highest ratings of the three pilots,"The fresh face of CBC comedy?" The Globe and Mail, March 13, 2006. and was favourably reviewed by television critics, although none of the series was ultimately picked up."CBC program boss optimistic about future". The Telegraph-Journal, May 31, 2006. The CBC had previously used the same strategy to launch the series Hatching, Matching and Dispatching and Getting Along Famously, although new programming chief Kirstine Layfield announced soon after joining the network that she was discontinuing the strategy.
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