Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: A Schitt's Creek Farewell

I don't think there's been a single day

over the past seven years

where I haven't thought about the show.

So, is that taxing?

No, but it's certainly all-consuming.

I still don't think I've fully processed the fact

that people are watching,

And I don't think, I don't think I ever want to...

...because I think part of the joy of experiencing this

has just been the fact that it,

it has felt quite small.

For three months, we are in Toronto,

making the show completely by ourselves.

It's funny because I feel like

the show sort of took a turn

in terms of the level of notoriety that it achieved

within the past year.

And I remember people asking me,

"Do you feel the weight of people's expectations

when you're writing the last season?"

And I was like, "Well, fortunately we've already written it."

So it couldn't have come at a better time

because, you know,

when the New York Times is writing about your show in such a positive way,

it was like, what is going on here?

It's tr-- it's insane.

Eugene Levy and his son, Dan--

-Are joining me now. -The creator and star of--

My favorite show of all time.

-Schitt's Creek . -

Eugene and Dan Levy just announced that the show will be back for season six.

Guess what? And that is it.

Schitt's Creek has slowly become

one of the most beloved sitcoms in North America,

but after six seasons,

80 episodes and four Emmy nominations,

the cast of this unlikely hit series

is preparing to say goodbye.

They're bowing out on their schedule,

not something that has always been easy to do in the TV business.

Did you guys feel the earth sort of shift earlier

when you announced that the show was coming to an end?

Last season of Schitt's Creek .

Don't you want to do another season? Please?

How are we ending the show now?

Why are you ending this thing? This is like, a perfect show

with a perfect cast at the perfect time.

We are three weeks into what we call, like, an idea incubator,

which is when we get all our writers together

and really just talk about what we want from our season

and where we want our characters to end up.

It's just a bit different this year

because it's a bigger conversation

when you're talking about where do you want your characters

to end up for the rest of their lives.

Little bit more pressure.

-So, where did we leave off? - Act two.

That last episode is about the fans.

If we've done our job okay,

then I think we should be set up

to wrap this show up in a really special way.

I do remember when the idea first sparked,

and I remember Daniel driving over to my parents' house,

writing the pilot presentation.

I came to him with the idea of exploring

what it would look like for a wealthy family

to lose their money.

It was really quite simple. I mean, he just said,

would you be interested in working with me

on developing a TV show,

and that set my heart to palpitating.

I didn't have any idea what I was doing.

So he was very legitimate in being scared.

What would happen on camera

was still a bit of an unknown.

I'd certainly seen him on MTV,

I knew that he was great on camera, he had a great presence,

but could he handle a scripted half-hour show? Still didn't know.

I'd seen the "rich people lose their money" concept

played out in sitcoms,

but I'd never seen it articulated

through a slightly more sophisticated comedic lens.

He wanted the same sensibility

that Chris Guest and I had put into our movies,

which is good character-based comedy, good grounded stuff.

You want an emotional investment in the characters.

We worked on just backstory for weeks.

To the point where I was sort of like, Dad, ugh,

can we just, like, move on?

He was like, no, we can't move on until we know exactly who these people are.

-Good morning. -First day.

Happy first day.

If I could just gather anybody that's outside in the peripherals

to step in for a moment,

just, we can just give the floor to Eugene.

Thank you, everyone.

Hi, everybody. I just wanted to say this morning,

of course, is kind of monumental in a way

because it's our very first shooting day

of our very last season.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

We have 14 episodes to wrap this shit up,

so let's make it worthwhile,

let's have fun and let's give it our all.

When we finally put it together

and realized this is the show,

it seemed like, you know,

it had good bones, as they say.

But when we finally cast it,

that was really when we realized,

wow, we're onto something really good here.

My dad had asked Catherine to be a part of the presentation pilot.

She's always like a first choice.

She was a first choice with the movies

that Chris and I did, I mean, number one name,

let's get Catherine.

She had said yes, conditionally.

It's just 15 minutes

and then, you know, if it sells, even if it sells,

you know, I won't bug you about doing the role.

And then the show got bought

and we had to go back to her and say,

remember that show that we shot that was 14 minutes?

Do you want to do that now for 13 episodes?

I said, no,

I don't think so.

I'm kind of busy doing nothing.

I said, call her back, tell her,

let's just look at one year, we'll go one year at a time

and if it's not gonna work, it's not gonna work.

And he called her,

and she said yes.

And the rest is history.

So stupid. Really, it's lame to talk about...

not wanting to do it at the beginning.

'Cause how stupid would I have been, not to have done it?

All right,

you ready for the first shot of season six?

-Ow! -Game on.

And... action!

Okay. Welcome home.

Alexis! Your father and I

are going to meet for a celebratory lunch when he's done at the bank--

Alexis was a character

that we had a hard time casting.

We must have seen a hundred people.

I was in LA for pilot season, and...

...things leading up to that point had not been going great.

I'm feeling rusty. Yes.

I hadn't worked in over two years.

The universe was really screaming in my ear,

like, this is not for you,

and literally the next day

I got an email for an audition

for a show called Schitt's Creek .

Hi. My name is Annie Murphy.

Annie came in, and she wasn't really made up

and she had a bun in her hair,

and she walked in with this sort of casual nonchalance,

and I called my dad after the audition and I said,

I think we have something here.

So we brought her out for the test

and she came into the room and it was, it was magic.

Twyla! I didn't know that you two were--

Did you wanna come in? I was just about to make some tea.

Mm, no.

My life just changed in that moment.

In a really, really big way.

Dustin Milligan.

This friend of mine, you know, we sort of knew each other

through the Canadian circles in LA,

his name was Dan Levy,

and he said, there's this show that's going.

And in my head I was like, whoa,

am I about to get offered a role? And then, it was like,

for you to audition for this role,

and I was like, okay, got it, cool, cool, cool.

Okay, just relax. If it's a heart attack,

you're way too far from the hospital to make it through the night.

-What? -Kidding.

When the breakdown finally arrived, you know,

I saw the names, Levy and O'Hara,

and the nerves just kind of take over

and then the work ethic takes over,

and yeah, I think I managed to put all that aside.

They ain't come in different colors, princess.

Orange is the new orange.

I got a call from my agent

and at the time I was getting, like,

audition anxiety to the point of, like,

if I walked in an audition room,

I would break out in hives, like, full body hives.

And so I told my US agent,

I'm like, I can't audition anymore, I'll just,

I'll put myself on tape, and he dropped me.

And that's fair, I totally, totally get it. Um...

but then my Canadian agent kept me,

and she's like, just go in, they're Canadian, they're nice.

Emily Hampshire.

I just remember, this is so dumb