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Yum! Brands, Inc.
Formerly called
Tricon Global Restaurants
Type
Public
Traded as
NYSE: YUM
S&P 500 Component
Industry
Restaurants
Founded
May 30, 1997
Headquarters
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Robert D. Walter
(Non-Executive Chairman)
Greg Creed (CEO)
David Gibbs (CFO)
Revenue
US$6.366 billion (2016)[1]
Operating income
US$1.625 billion (2016)[1]
Net income
US$1.619 billion (2016)[1]
Total assets
US$5.478 billion (2016)[1]
Total equity
US$5.656 billion (2016)[1]
Number of employees
Approximately 90,000 (as of December 2016)[2]
Subsidiaries
KFC
Pizza Hut
Taco Bell
WingStreet
Yum! Restaurants International
Yum! Restaurants India
Website
www.yum.com
Yum! Brands, Inc., or Yum! and formerly Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., is an American fast food company. A Fortune 500 corporation, Yum! operates the brands Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and WingStreet worldwide, except in China, where the brands are operated by a separate company, Yum China. Prior to 2011, Yum! owned Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants.
Based in Louisville, Kentucky, it is one of the world's largest fast food restaurant companies in terms of system units—with 43,617 restaurants (including 2,859 that are company-owned and 40,758 that are franchised) around the world in over 135 countries and territories.[3]
Contents
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1 History
1.1 Tricon Global Restaurants
1.2 Yum! Brands
1.3 International focus
2 Corporate
3 Brands
3.1 Current
3.2 Former
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
History[edit]
Tricon Global Restaurants[edit]
Yum! was created on May 30, 1997, as Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. from PepsiCo's fast food division as the parent corporation of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurant companies.[4][5] Tricon Global was spun out in late 1997. Tricon selected Louisville as its headquarters, moving near the KFC Restaurant Support Center from the Pepsi HQ in Purchase, New York, by early 1998.[5]
In 2000, Tricon Global agreed to test multi-branded locations with Yorkshire Global Restaurants. By March 2002, the Tricon-Yorkshire multibranding test consisted of 83 KFC/A&Ws, six KFC/Long John Silver's and three Taco Bell/Long John Silver's and was considered successful by the companies.[6]
In 2001, KFC started test restaurants in Austin, Texas, called "Wing Works", which is a chicken wing line sold with one of a few flavored sauces. Also, KFC hired a consultant to develop a breakfast menu.[7]
Yum! Brands[edit]
In March 2002, Tricon announced the acquisition of Lexington, Kentucky-based Yorkshire Global Restaurants, owner of the Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants[8] chains and its intention to change the company's name to Yum! Brands, Inc. to match its NYSE ticker symbol. The name change became effective after a vote during the company's annual shareholders meeting by May 22, 2002[9] while the acquisition was finalized on May 8th. On June 6, 2002, Yum! executed a two-for-one stock split.[10] Shortly afterwards, due to Yum!'s lifetime contract with Pepsi, Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants (both of which previously served Coca-Cola products) began switching to Pepsi products, with A&W Restaurants retaining A&W Root Beer from a separate deal with Dr Pepper/Seven Up (now Dr Pepper Snapple Group).
In 2002, Yum! began testing co-branding locations pairing Pizza Hut with Pasta Bravo, Back Yard Burgers and A&W.[11] The Pasta Bravo concept was acquired in 2003 from Pasta Bravo, Inc. of Aliso Viejo, California for $5 million to pair with Pizza Hut.[12]
In 2003, Yum! launched WingStreet as a hybrid combo unit with an existing Pizza Hut franchise.[13] In 2007 and 2008, a thousand WingStreet stores a year were opened. On October 19, 2009, Company president Scott Bergren publicize WingStreet's national launch.[13]
An East Dawning test cafeteria-style restaurant was opened in Shanghai in 2004. After initially failing, Yum! Brands chose the KFC business model (KFC is the most successful Western chain in China) and found greater success.[14] As of September 30, 2007, eight East Dawning restaurants were in operation.[15]
International focus[edit]
A single Yum! restaurant facility co-branded as Taco Bell and KFC in San Francisco, California
Another cobranded KFC and Taco Bell in Oscoda, Michigan
In January 2011, Yum! announced its intentions to divest itself of its Long John Silver's and A&W brands to focus on its core brands of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. For the decade leading up to the company's announcement, major growth had relied on international expansion. With little presence outside North America, the two chains no longer fit in the company's long-term growth plans.[16] The foreign expansion—particularly that of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut—was cited in the firm's January 18, 2011, announcement of its intention to sell the A&W and Long John Silver's chains. Both of those chains also suffered from poor sales, and had fewer locations compared to the other chains in the Yum! Brands portfolio. In September 2011, Yum! announced they had found buyers for the A&W and LJS chains. A Great American Brand will buy A&W, and LJS will be acquired by LJS Partners LLC.[8]
In May 2011, Yum! agreed to purchase Chinese hot pot chain Little Sheep for HK$4.56 billion.[17] The deal spent more than 4 months in anti-trust review by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, to determine whether or not the transaction would result in a monopolistic positioning of Yum! in the country's restaurant industry. The Ministry approved the deal in November 2011, according to Little Sheep representatives.[18]
In 2012, a KFC opened in Ramallah and became the first American fast food restaurant to operate in the West Bank; a Pizza Hut is also planned.[19]
In 2013, a few KFC locations in China supplied chicken found to contain "excess levels of chemical residue". Yum! has lost 6% of sales from publicity in China as of January 25.[20]
The company opened its first restaurant in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in May 2013. For Mongolia, KFC is the first western fast food to open its doors in the country. The company is planning to open 15 more restaurants in Ulaanbaatar in the next 5 years, including the country's first drive-thru service.[21] Yum! Brands has also opened Taco Bell and Pizza Hut restaurants in newer Target stores.
Yum! Brands opened its 40,000th store in Calangute, Goa, India in October 2013.[22]
In 2013, its KFC subsidiary opened a fast casual version, KFC eleven, test location in Louisville on Bardstown Road.[23] In the third quarter of 2013, Yum! Brands had to book an impairment of the goodwill resulting from the takeover of Little Sheep in 2011 in the amount of $222 million, which reduced profits for 2013.[24]
In 2014, Yum! launched a number of additional restaurant test concepts, Super Chix, U.S. Taco Co. and Banh Shop.[25] Yum! opened Super Chix in Central Arlington, Texas that is similar in format to Chick-fil-A on April 9, 2014.[26] In the summer of 2014, Yum!'s Taco Bell subsidiary launched its U.S. Taco Co and Urban Tap Room fast-casual taco concept restaurant in Huntington Beach, California, to take on fast casual restaurants like Chipotle and Panera.[27]
In the first quarter of 2015, Third Point Management and Corvex Management separately acquired an unspecified stake in the company.[28] The sole KFC Eleven was closed in April 2015.[23] A second Chix unit opened in May 2015 with additional menu items. Super Chix was sold to founder Nick Ouimet and an investment group in August 2015.[25]
In 2017, Yum! announced plans to open 10 Pizza Hut restaurants in Ethiopia, after signing a franchise with the country's Belayab Foods and Franchise PLC.[29]
Corporate[edit]
The KFC Yum! Center, Louisville's largest arena
The current executive chairman of Yum! Brands is Greg Creed. The previous CEO was David C. Novak.[30] Novak became CEO of predecessor firm Tricon Global on January 1, 2000, and chairman of the board on January 1, 2001.[31] Greg Creed replaced Novak in his role as CEO on January 1, 2015.[32] At the AGM in May 2016, Robert D. Walter became non-executive chairman.
On October 20, 2015, Yum! Brands, Inc., announced that it intended to separate into two independent, publicly traded companies.[33] Yum China was spun off on November 1, 2016.[34]
Since 2006, Yum! Brands has served as the corporate sponsor of the Kentucky Derby.[35]
Brands[edit]
Current[edit]
KFC (including XL variant)
Pizza Hut
Taco Bell
WingStreet[13]
Banh Shop (minority investor)
Former[edit]
A&W Restaurants – Sold to A Great American Brand LLC, a consortium of A&W franchisees, in 2011[8]
D'Angelo Sandwich Shops – Sold to Papa Gino's in 1997
Hot 'n Now – Acquired by PepsiCo in 1990, placed under the Taco Bell branch. Now mostly defunct, with only 1 out of 150 remaining in Sturgis, Michigan
Long John Silver's – Sold to LJS Partners, Long John Silver's franchisees and other private investors, in 2011[8]
Pasta Bravo
Super Chix[25]
East Dawning – Spun off into Yum! China in 2016
Little Sheep – Spun off into Yum! China in 2016
See also[edit]
Louisville portal
Companies portal
Food portal
List of major employers in Louisville, Kentucky
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e "YUM! Brands, Inc., Historical Financial Summary, Fourth Quarter, 2016" (PDF). Yum! Brands. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Yum Brands on the Fortune 500". Fortune. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Yum! Brands2016 10-K". yum.com. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Yum! Brands Inc (YUM) Company Profile". Reuters.com. Reuters. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b Johnson, Greg (August 1, 1997). "Taco Bell's Parent to Be Based in Louisville, Ky.". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Tricon Global Restaurants announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Long John Silver's and A&W All American Food Restaurants, owned by Yorkshire Global Restaurants" (Press release). Tricon Global Restaurants. Bison.com. March 2002. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
Jump up ^ "KFC taps 'Seinfeld' star, starts 'Wing Works' test". Nation's Restaurant News. Lebhar-Friedman. August 6, 2001. Archived from the original on July 16, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
^ Jump up to: a b c d "Yum Sells 2 Fast-Food Chains". New York Times. September 22, 2011.
Jump up ^ "Tricon to Change Name to Yum! Brands Inc". Entrepreneur. Business Wire. May 20, 2002. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Bulletin Business: Tricon finalizes purchase, plans 2-for-1 stock split". Star Bulletin. May 8, 2002. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Pizza Hut, Pasta Bravo Test Co-Branding". Entrepreneur. Nation's Restaurant News. August 6, 2002. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Yum buys Pasta Bravo rights for P. Hut pairings". Nation's Restaurant News. Lebhar-Friedman. April 14, 2003. Archived from the original on July 10, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
^ Jump up to: a b c Cyrek, Christopher (October 20, 2009). "Pizza Hut going after wings market". Dallas Business Journal. Dallas, Texas: American City Business Journals, Inc. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
Jump up ^ Adamy, J. (October 20, 2006). "One U.S. Chain's Unlikely Goal: Pitching Chinese Food in China". The Wall Street Journal.
Jump up ^ "Yum! Brands – Defining Global Company that Feeds the World".
Jump up ^ "Yum puts A&W, Long John Silver's up for sale". MSNBC. Associated Press. January 18, 2011. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
Jump up ^ Jin, Tony (October 27, 2011). "Uncertainty Surfaces Over Yum's Takeover of Little Sheep". China Perspective. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
Jump up ^ Guang, Yin (November 8, 2011). "China Corporate News: Yum's Little Sheep Takeover Review Cleared". China Perspective. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
Jump up ^ American fried chicken comes to the Palestinian territories, Los Angeles Times, February 4, 2012, access date February 20, 2012
Jump up ^ "Yum Brands' chicken in China contained excessive chemical levels, report says". Business First. January 25, 2013. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
Jump up ^ "Yum! Brands expands to Mongolia, plans more growth". Business First. May 29, 2013. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
Jump up ^ Narayan, Adi (October 23, 2013). "Yum to Invest $10 Billion With Partners in Emerging Markets Push". Bloomberg. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b Elson, Martha (April 29, 2015). ""What now?" after Highlands KFC eleven closes". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
Jump up ^ Hoang, Anh (October 26, 2013). "Should Investors Worry About Yum! Brands' Sluggish Third Quarter Results?". The Motley Fool. Archived from the original on August 10, 2016. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
^ Jump up to: a b c Ruggless, Ron (August 14, 2015). "Super Chix founder, investors buy concept from Yum". Nation's Restaurant News. Penton Restaurant Group. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
Jump up ^ Daniels, Lauren Drewes (April 10, 2014). "The First Super Chix, a Fast-Food Chicken Joint from KFC's Owners, Opens in Arlington". Dallas Observer. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
Jump up ^ Dockterman, Eliana (April 24, 2014). "Taco Bell for Foodies". Time. Time Inc. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
Jump up ^ Herbst-Bayliss, Svea (May 1, 2015). "Third Point takes stake in Yum! Brands, stock climbs". Reuter. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Yum to open 10 Ethiopian Pizza Huts in African expansion". af.reuters.com. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
Jump up ^ "Yum! Brands, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Feb 10, 2000". secdatabase.com. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
Jump up ^ "Yum! Brands, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Mar 28, 2001" (PDF). secdatabase.com. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
Jump up ^ "Yum! Brands – Defining Global Company that Feeds the World".
Jump up ^ "Yum! Brands announced that it intends to separate into two independent, publicly-traded companies." Company news release, October 20, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) today announced that it has completed the separation of Yum China Holdings, Inc. ("Yum China") from Yum! Brands, creating two powerful, independent, focused growth companies."
Jump up ^ "Kentucky Derby including Yum Brands in its name – May. 5, 2006".
External links[edit]
Official website
Diners Walk Through One Door and Visit Two Restaurants – Article in The New York Times (July 11, 2005) on Yum!'s strategy of multibranding restaurants
Yum Brands and World Hunger Relief Week
Business data for Yum! Brands: Google Finance
Yahoo! Finance
Bloomberg
Reuters
SEC filings
Fast Food's Yummy Secret: America's second-biggest fast-food group is as successful as it is little known – Special report in The Economist (August 27, 2005) on Yum! Brands
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Pass by catastrophe is an academic urban legend proposing that if some particular catastrophic event occurs, students whose performance could have been affected by the event are automatically awarded passing grades, on the grounds that there would then be no way to assess them fairly and they should not be penalized for the catastrophe.
Examples of the legend[edit]
If someone dies during an exam, all the other students present pass the semester.
If, by accident, the university burns down, or is destroyed otherwise, all current students immediately graduate with a degree.
A student who gets accidentally hit by a campus shuttle bus will receive free tuition.[1]
The most common version of this story is that if a student's roommate commits suicide, the surviving student will be awarded straight As for that semester.[2][3] This version provides the premise for the films Dead Man on Campus and The Curve, as well as episodes of several television series.[4][5]
In his book Curses! Broiled Again!, urban legend expert Jan Harold Brunvand investigated the claim that a student whose roommate commits suicide will receive straight As for that semester. He could not find any college or university which actually had such a rule.[2] Sociologist William S. Fox described this legend and variants, such as the rule applying to any death of a roommate; he also concluded that the claim has no basis in fact.[2] The website Snopes rates the story as false.[6]
In practice[edit]
Many schools and jurisdictions adopting any blanket rule as claimed by the legend, may make allowances or adjustments for individual students in cases of hardship. In the United Kingdom, the Joint Council for Qualifications allows candidates to apply for an adjustment of their score (up to 5%) if they have met all the qualifications for the exam but suffer "temporary illness, temporary injury or other indisposition at the time of the assessment". If an eligible candidate dies before completing the examination, an "honorary certificate" can be requested.[7]
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Jump up ^ Gordon, Jill (March 13, 2009). "The 10 Weirdest College Urban Legends". Onlinecollegecourses.com. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b c Brunvand, Jan Harold (1989). "The Suicide Rule". Curses! Broiled Again!. W.W. Norton and Company. pp. 295–298. ISBN 0-393-30711-5.
Jump up ^ Reisberg, Leo (September 11, 1998). "Hollywood Discovers an Apocryphal Legend". Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
Jump up ^ Gates, Anita (August 21, 1998). "Film review: A Novel Way to Get All A's". New York Times. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
Jump up ^ "The Curve (1998)". New York Times. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
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Dan Levy
Starring
Eugene Levy
Catherine O'Hara
Dan Levy
Annie Murphy
Chris Elliott
Jennifer Robertson
Emily Hampshire
Tim Rozon
Dustin Milligan
Country of origin
Canada
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
4
No. of episodes
51 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Eugene Levy
Dan Levy
Fred Levy
Andrew Barnsley
Ben Feigin
Kevin White
Producer(s)
Colin Brunton
Running time
22 minutes (approx.)
Production company(s)
Not a Real Company Productions
Distributor
ITV Studios Global Entertainment
Release
Original network
CBC Television
Picture format
1080i (HDTV)
Original release
January 13, 2015 (2015-01-13) – present (present)
External links
CBC Television's Schitt'$ Creek
Schitt's Creek (stylized as Schitt$ Creek) is a Canadian television sitcom created by Eugene Levy and his son Dan Levy, that premiered on CBC Television on January 13, 2015.[1] The series is produced by Not a Real Company Productions.[2] On January 12, 2015, CBC renewed the show for a second season.[3][4] The second season premiered in Canada on January 12, 2016 on CBC.[5] It was announced on February 17, 2016, that the CBC renewed the show for a third season[6] which began broadcasting on January 11, 2017.[7] On March 10, 2017 the show was renewed for a fourth season, which aired on January 9, 2018 on CBC.[8] On March 6, 2018 the show was renewed for a fifth season to air in early 2019.[9]
The series has won various accolades, including an ACTRA Award and 11 Canadian Screen Awards.[10][11]
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Production
3 Cast and characters
4 Episodes
5 Reception
6 Awards and nominations
7 International broadcast
8 References
9 External links
Plot[edit]
The series stars Eugene Levy as Johnny Rose, a wealthy video store magnate, and Catherine O'Hara as his wife Moira, a formerly successful soap star. The family loses their fortune when their business manager fails to pay their taxes. They are forced to rebuild their lives with their sole remaining asset: a small town named Schitt's Creek which they had bought their son as a joke birthday gift years before. The story revolves around the family's life living in two adjacent rooms of a rundown motel with their pampered twenty-something adult children, David and Alexis, played by Dan Levy and Annie Murphy respectively.[12] Additional cast includes Chris Elliott,[12] Jennifer Robertson and Emily Hampshire. The show is based on a series of situations contrasting the once-rich family and their worldly big-city attitudes with sudden small-town living and the honest, down-to-earth, hard-working residents of Schitt's Creek.
Production[edit]
The series is filmed on location in Goodwood, Ontario, the Regional Municipality of Durham of the Greater Toronto Area, and Mono, Ontario, where the motel scenes are filmed.[13] The interior scenes for the first two seasons were filmed at Pinewood Toronto Studios in Toronto,[14] while the interior scenes for the third season were shot at Dufferin Gate Studios in Toronto.[15]
Cast and characters[edit]
Eugene Levy as Johnny Rose
Catherine O'Hara as Moira Rose
Dan Levy as David Rose
Annie Murphy as Alexis Rose
Chris Elliott as Roland Schitt, the mayor
Jennifer Robertson as Jocelyn Schitt, the mayor's wife
Emily Hampshire as Stevie Budd, the motel clerk (and later, motel owner)
Tim Rozon as Mutt Schitt
Sarah Levy as Twyla Sands, the diner waitress
Dustin Milligan as Ted Mullens, the town's veterinarian[16]
Robin Duke as Wendy Kurtz, dress shop owner who employed David (Season 2 only)[17]
Rizwan Manji as Ray Butani, the only real estate agent in town and a member of the town council
John Hemphill as Bob Currie, proprietor of Bob's Garage and a member of the town council
Karen Robinson as Ronnie Lee, a member of the town council
Steve Lund as Jake
Jasmin Geljo as Ivan
Noah Reid as Patrick
Episodes[edit]
Main article: List of Schitt's Creek episodes
Season
Episodes
Originally aired
First aired
Last aired
1 13 January 13, 2015 (2015-01-13) March 31, 2015 (2015-03-31)
2 13 January 12, 2016 (2016-01-12) March 29, 2016 (2016-03-29)
3 13 January 10, 2017 (2017-01-10) April 4, 2017 (2017-04-04)
4 12 (+1) January 9, 2018 (2018-01-09) April 10, 2018 (2018-04-10)

Reception[edit]
Schitt's Creek has received mixed reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes the first season has a rating of 59%, based on 22 reviews, with an average rating of 6.38/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "The title is one of the best jokes of Schitt's Creek, but performances from Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara give the writing a comedic boost."[18] On Metacritic, the first season has a score of 64 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[19]
Reactions from Canadian reviewers have ranged from raves to pans. Vinon Minay of the Toronto Star wrote that the show "is not just a welcome addition to prime time: it is one of the best CBC comedies in years."[20] John Doyle of The Globe and Mail, however, sharply criticized the show saying "Schitt’s Creek is droll? Try smug and self-satisfied....There is no edge to Schitt's Creek. It's cozy comedy and perhaps the tightness of the ensemble – bound by family, old alliances – blinds then to the lack of hilarity in what they're doing. Comedy is hard and the show is soft-core comedy." Doyle concluded saying "Many viewers will approach Schitt's Creek with advance affection. They will relish seeing Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara working together again. They will savour the father/son dynamic between Eugene and Dan Levy. That's peachy too. But it will camouflage the fact that the show is as anodyne and polite as the feel-good remarks made by its stars when asked about it. It's nice and it's droll, but it fails."[21]
After being picked up by Pop, American reception has been similarly mixed. The Los Angeles Times described the show as "very funny, beautifully played, sometimes touching and, though its premise is familiar — rich family loses money — quite its own animal."[22] and the New York Post stated that "The Levys nicely develop their fish-out-of-water concept by showing how the family tries to fit in out of necessity."[23] On the other end of the spectrum, Mike Hale of The New York Times called Schitt's Creek "a show that’s drab and underwritten, with potentially amusing (if familiar) situations that never build to more than a chuckle or a nod of recognition: Yeah, that could have been funny."[24]
The series has also been noted for its portrayal of a pansexual character, played by Dan Levy.[25][26]
Awards and nominations[edit]
See also: List of awards and nominations received by Schitt's Creek
In 2015, Schitt's Creek's first season received two Directors Guild of Canada awards from three nominations. At the 2016 ceremony, season one received nine Canadian Screen Awards from 16 nominations. Schitt's Creek's second season has received a total of 13 nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards.[27]
International broadcast[edit]
The series was picked up in the United States by Pop and premiered on February 11, 2015.[28][29] The show has also been picked up in New Zealand by TV2 and TVNZ on Demand.[30] The four seasons appear, though not always together, on different streaming television services worldwide. Netflix UK, Ireland and Australia carries all series.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara are up Schitt's Creek". CBC News. October 21, 2014. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
Jump up ^ Cummins, Julianna (February 11, 2014). "SCTV alums Levy and O'Hara to star in CBC comedy". Playback. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Schitt's Creek gets greenlight for second season". CBC News. January 12, 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Schitt's Creek is off to a dazzling start". Toronto Star. January 19, 2015. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Schitt's Creek".
Jump up ^ Petski, Denise (17 February 2016). "Eugene Levy Comedy 'Schitt's Creek' Renewed For Season 3 In Canada".
Jump up ^ "Schitt's Creek season 3 will be released on — January 10, 2017 - PremiereDate.TV". premieredate.tv. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
Jump up ^ Nellie, Andreeva (2017-03-10). "Schitt's Creek renewed for Season Two". Deadline.com. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
Jump up ^ Hipes, Patrick (2018-06-03). "'Schitt's Creek' Renewed For Season 5 On Pop TV".
Jump up ^ Schitt's Creek, retrieved 2017-12-08
Jump up ^ "Room, Schitt's Creek dominate Canadian Screen Awards". Retrieved 2017-12-08.
^ Jump up to: a b "SCTV stars Levy and O’Hara reunite for a forthcoming CBC sitcom called Schitt’s Creek". canada.com, February 10, 2014.
Jump up ^ Halliday, Chris (June 24, 2014). "Hockley sets scene for CBC comedy starring Eugene Levy". Orangeville Banner. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
Jump up ^ Wong, Tony (January 12, 2015). "How Eugene Levy convinced CBC to name his show 'Schitt's Creek'". Toronto Star. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Dufferin Gate Studios - Toronto". www.dufferingate.com. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
Jump up ^ Ted Mullens (played by Dustin Milligan), Schitt's Creek – CBC/Radio-Canada. Retrieved January 26, 2018
Jump up ^ "Former SNL writer / actor to hold workshop in the Sault," Sault Online, Tuesday, October 3, 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2018
Jump up ^ "Schitt's Creek : Season 1". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
Jump up ^ "Schitt's Creek : Season 1". Metacritic. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
Jump up ^ "Schitt's Creek is off to a dazzling start: Menon - Toronto Star". Retrieved 27 March 2018.
Jump up ^ "John Doyle: Schitt's Creek is droll? Try smug and self-satisfied". theglobeandmail.com.
Jump up ^ Lloyd, Robert. "Canadian 'Creek' overflows with good humor". latimes.com. Retrieved 2016-11-28.
Jump up ^ Rorke, Robert (2015-02-10). "Eugene Levy & Co. paddle up 'Schitt's Creek' in new sitcom". New York Post. Retrieved 2016-11-28.
Jump up ^ Hale, Mike (10 February 2015). "Review: In 'Schitt's Creek,' a Spoiled Little Rich Family Starts Over". Retrieved 27 March 2018 – via NYTimes.com.
Jump up ^ "Dan Levy Talks Playing Pansexual on Schitt's Creek - Flare". Flare. 2015-03-31. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
Jump up ^ Ferber, Taylor. "Dan Levy Won't Make Pansexual Schitt's Creek Character a 'Caricature'". Vulture. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
Jump up ^ "2017 Film Nominees - Academy.ca". Academy.ca. Retrieved 2017-02-03.
Jump up ^ Andreeva, Nellie (October 21, 2014). "Pop Picks Up Eugene Levy Comedy 'Schitt's Creek' As First Original Scripted Series". Deadline. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
Jump up ^ Jue, Teresa (November 17, 2014). "TVGN rebrand Pop announces lineup for 2015, premieres clip from 'Schitt's Creek'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
Jump up ^ Television New Zealand. "Watch Schitt's Creek Episodes - TVNZ OnDemand".
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