Dan Levy revealed he once ruminated on a potential follow-up to hit CBC series Schitt’s Creek. After star Catherine O’Hara’s death, however, the showrunner-actor said he wouldn’t pursue a sequel.
“No, not now,” he told CBS Sunday Mornings’ Anthony Mason. “You can’t.”
In the interview tied to Levy’s forthcoming Netflix comedy show Big Mistakes, the Emmy-winning creator strolled down Goodwood, Ontario, the small community that served as the filming locale for the fictitious town where a newly broke wealthy family was forced to settle.
Levy noted he had not returned to the set since filming wrapped on the show ahead of 2020, including the Goodwood Mercantile store, which served as his character David’s artisan crafts store Rose Apothecary. The real store now sells merchandise, and also includes a condolence book dedicated to O’Hara.
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“Yeah, I was thinking about it,” the writer-producer said of a potential sequel. “It’s tough, it’s tough being back. I didn’t think that I’d have quite an emotional reaction.”
He tearfully added of his feelings: “Just a lot of memories, a lot of memories with Catherine. It’s what you have to hold on to, is the memories of it all.”
“And an incredible clip reel,” Mason said, to which Levy added: “Listen, for someone who was not on the internet, she knew how to meme.”
Schitt’s Creek was a runaway breakout toward the latter half of its six-season run, when it scored a Netflix bump that took the show from its humble cult origins to eventual status as a mainstream staple. Running from 2015 to 2020, the series starred Levy and his father, Eugene Levy, and sister, Sara Levy, as well as O’Hara, Annie Murphy, Emily Hampshire, Chris Elliott, Jennifer Robertson and Noah Reid. It was nominated for 19 Emmys and won nine, including Outstanding Comedy Series, and clinched trophies in all four of its nominated acting categories.
O’Hara, the beloved two-time Emmy-winning SCTV, Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek alumna, died of a pulmonary embolism with rectal cancer as the underlying cause in late January of this year at age 71.