For Daniel Levy, who co-created CBC’s Schitt’s Creek with his father Eugene in 2015, he still can’t pinpoint when he knew, unequivocally, that the show was a hit.“Because I was so actively involved in every area of this show, I went from a soundstage to an edit suite to a writers’ room.
For the better part of a year, I didn’t even see the outside,” the bespectacled writer and star says in a phone interview.“In my mind, we’re still a little Canadian show that wanted to tell some funny stories,” he continues.When Schitt’s Creek premiered in January 2015, it was a hit for CBC.
But it gained international acclaim after it was picked up on Pop TV in the U.S. The momentum continued thanks to Netflix, which added the sitcom’s earlier seasons to