Schitt's Creek Facts

Book excerpt: Schitt's Creek is a classic fish-out-of-water story: After they lose their entire video store fortune to the government because their business manager hasn't been paying their taxes, the Rose family-parents Johnny (Eugene Levy) and Moira (Catherine O'Hara) and their adult children David (Daniel Levy) and Alexis (Annie Murphy)-head to the only asset the government has allowed them to keep: the town of Schitt's Creek. The cosmopolitan Roses, who had purchased the town as a joke, move into the local motel, where they share two adjoining rooms; they stick out like sore thumbs in their new home. But at its heart, Schitt's Creek is a show about family. "We've used a fish out of water scenario to help dramatize that story," co-creator and star Daniel Levy told Assignment X, "forcing them into a motel room and ... examining what it means to be a family and what relationships are and having the time to concentrate and focus on who they are to each other and what they mean to each other." Here are a few things you might not have known about the hit series. This book includes 103 facts about Schitt's Creek