Brent Butt has wrapped the final episode of Corner Gas, just as his next comedy for CTV and The Comedy Network readies to shoot in Vancouver. The next would-be series from the veteran comic, Hiccups, will shoot its pilot later this month, putting Butt’s wife and Gas cohort Nancy Robertson in the role of a children’s author with emotional issues.

‘She responds to everything like a four- or five-year-old,’ says Butt of the lead character, Millie. Not just anger – though fits of rage will apparently be a big part of the humor – but happiness, sadness, the whole gamut