JR Digs
JR Digs is a Canadian television series which airs Saturday nights on Global and CH without having an actual network deal. It has aired since June 2001. The show follows JR Digs as he talks to people on the street, plays jokes on unsuspecting people, and pursues a network deal. Although it airs nationally and is branded as a television show, it is really a paid program that is supported by sponsors like Labatt and Pizza Pizza.
Since its fourth week on the air, JR Digs has had excellent ratings. It is currently the highest-rated show in its timeslot in Canada and it consistently beats other comedy shows in the ratings which air before or after it, such as Saturday Night Live and MADtv.
Originally, the show only aired on CHCH in Hamilton, Ontario, although in Spring 2003, Global decided to air the show nationally before Saturday Night Live. In British Columbia and Ontario, the show airs on CH instead, after MADtv.
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- Victor the Eggman - Featured JR's interview with Victor, a man he met at a supermarket who was shopping for eggs. (guest: Victor the Eggman)
- JYD on JR Digs (guest: *NSYNC concert.
Season two
Season three
- The Long Haul - Aired in response to a negative e-mail that JR received from a viewer who disliked the show and suggested that it would probably be funnier if JR videotaped himself on the toilet and aired that as an entire episode.
Season four
- Where's Venice Beach? (original airdate: April 24, 2004) - JR booked a flight to Venice Beach, Florida, where his parents live during the winter, for spring break. Shane and the rest of the crew that work on the show, however, mixed up the states and booked a flight to Venice Beach, California instead. The show alternates between JR's footage, which he shoots with only one video camera at the beach and at a bingo game, and the comparatively more exciting footage filmed by Shane and the others, who manage to get interviews, songs, and humourous script readings on tape.
- JR DIGS: The Movie (original airdate: May 1, 2004) - Among the highlights of the show included more footage of Shane and the others getting actors in Hollywood to read scripts for the JR Digs movie, and JR's crashing of the Gemini Awards where he met up with actors Dave Foley, John Dunsworth, Jonathan Torrens, Cathy Jones, Paul Braunstein, and Krista Sutton; as well as other cast members of Trailer Park Boys. Later in the show, JR searched for Kevin Smith, hoping to see if Smith will direct his movie.
- Venice, Anyone? (original airdate: May 8, 2004) - Featured a 52-minute long flapjack call from a telemarketer who was attempting to sell JR a newspaper subscription. Despite the many times she told JR that the subscription would cost $23.10 a month, a "confused" JR would multiply the wrong numbers prompting her to explain the pricing of the newspaper yet again.
- Cock-a-Doodle Moo (original airdate: May 22, 2004) - Footage from the Agricultural Fair, a taping at Reptile Man's store in Hamilton, and a streeters competition between two teams of two regulars on the show's message board JJSHORTY83, Wworrall JRdigswrestlingfan, kenny (.
