Billable Hours

Billable Hours

Infobox Television
show_name = Billable Hours


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genre = Comedy
creator = Fab Filippo
Adam Till
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presenter =
starring = Fab Filippo
Brandon Firla
Jennifer Baxter
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country = flag|Canada
language = English
num_seasons = 2
num_episodes = 18
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producer =
executive_producer = Frank Van Keeken
David Fortier
Ivan Schneeberg
location = Toronto, flag|Canada
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runtime = 30 minutes
network = Showcase
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first_aired = April 16, 2006
last_aired = Present
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website = http://www.showcase.ca/billable/
imdb_id = 0488813
tv_com_id = 61752

"Billable Hours" is a Canadian comedy series, which airs on Showcase.

Set in the fictional Toronto law firm of Fagen & Harrison, the series focuses on three young lawyers struggling to balance their expectations in life with the difficult realities of building a career in law.

The series debuted on Showcase in 2006 and is produced by Temple Street Productions, the same company that produced "Queer as Folk" for Showcase in Canada and Showtime in the U.S. The second season premiered in April 2007 and is accompanied by a 10 part webisode series entitled "Billable Minutes".

Cast

* Brandon Firla - Clark Claxton
* Fabrizio Filippo - Sam Caponelli
* Jennifer Baxter - Robin Howland
* Dov Tiefenbach - Stu Berger
* Jane Luk - Cam Belter, office manager
* Aron Tager - Mortie Fagen, head partner
* Enis Esmer - Zoltan
* Mike Beaver - Murray
* Ron Gabriel - Seth Kaplin
* Jayne Eastwood - Maxine Bingly
* Robin Brûlé - Millie Larkin, Clark's assistant

Episode list

eason 1

eason 2

Notes

* In the opening of the episode 201, "Birthday Suits", a lawyer attempts to demonstrate the strength of the office building windows by throwing himself against one of them, but the window shatters and he falls to his death. Such an incident actually took place in a Toronto law firm in 1993 [cite web
url=http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/window.asp
title=Through a Glass, Quickly
date=1998] . The plot device of falling through a shattered skyscraper window also figures prominently in the Canadian film "waydowntown", starring series co-creator Fab Filippo.

* In episode 203, "15 Minutes of Shame", it is discovered that Robin played a zombie in a low-rent horror movie. This was a meta-joke referencing Jennifer Baxter's 2005 appearance as a zombie in George Romero's "Land of the Dead".

References

External links

* [http://www.showcase.ca/billable "Billable Hours"] official website.
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* [http://www.tv.com/show/61752/summary.html "Billable Hours"] at TV.com.
* [http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/04/24/workplace-tv-comedies.html Labour Pains] article from the CBC.
* [http://www.thestar.com/article/205850 Double billing in dark humour department] article from the Toronto Star.


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