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Slings and Arrows

Season 2 2005

  • 2005-06-27T04:00:00Z
  • 45m
  • 4h 41m (6 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Comedy
In the fictional town of New Burbage, legendary theatrical madman Geoffrey Tennant returns to the New Burbage Theatre Festival, the site of his greatest triumph and most humiliating failure, to assume the artistic directorship after the sudden death of his mentor, Oliver Welles.

6 episodes

Season Premiere

2005-06-27T04:00:00Z

2x01 Season's End

Season Premiere

2x01 Season's End

  • 2005-06-27T04:00:00Z47m

Richard's looking for new sponsors. Jack's leaving the theater for a movie shoot in Hawaii. It's last night with Hamlet. Is Macbeth next?

2005-07-04T04:00:00Z

2x02 Fallow Time

2x02 Fallow Time

  • 2005-07-04T04:00:00Z45m

Christmas comes to New Burbage and so do the interns, who are part of the new austerity program. Richard raises begging to new heights and hires Sanjay Ranier of the hip and edgy marketing firm Frog Hammer.

2005-07-11T04:00:00Z

2x03 Rarer Monsters

2x03 Rarer Monsters

  • 2005-07-11T04:00:00Z47m

The curse of Macbeth kicks in when the director of Romeo and Juliet breaks her neck, forcing Geoffrey to invite show-dog Darren Nichols back from Berlin to fill in. Juliet meets her Romeo and sparks do not fly. Ellen and Geoffrey's brief experiment in domesticity ends. Badly.

2x04 Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair

  • 2005-07-18T04:00:00Z47m

With subscribers cancelling en masse since the launch of Frog Hammer's campaign of alienation, Sanjay counsels Richard to embrace the left side of his brain. Now living in a storage room in the theatre with Oliver's ghost as a roommate, Geoffrey reaches a breaking point with his Macbeth.

2005-07-25T04:00:00Z

2x05 Steeped in Blood

2x05 Steeped in Blood

  • 2005-07-25T04:00:00Z47m

Ellen confuses her auditor with a confessor but graduates to adulthood with the final tally of her back taxes. The police have developed a keen interest in Sanjay, whose real name is not Sanjay. With the veteran actor playing Macbeth dismissed for having a bloated ego, his understudy preps for the spotlight.

2005-08-01T04:00:00Z

2x06 Birnam Wood

2x06 Birnam Wood

  • 2005-08-01T04:00:00Z48m

Youthquake--the magic of rebranding kicks in! Geoffrey works on his own brand of explosive magic, Oliver returns to the stage, Richard upgrades his dream quest to include Gilbert & Sullivan, and love conquers all.

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