My 90-Year-Old Roommate

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My 90-Year-Old Roommate is a Canadian comedy web series, which premiered in 2016 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Punchline comedy web platform. [1] Created by Ethan Cole, the series stars Cole as a fictionalized version of himself, an underemployed young man who moves in with his recently widowed 90-year-old grandfather Joe (Paul Soles). [2] The series was produced by LoCo Motion Pictures.

At the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, Soles won the award for Best Actor in a Digital Program or Series. [3]

References

  1. "CBC's got a hilarious new odd couple with My 90-Year-Old Roommate". Montreal Gazette , September 22, 2016.
  2. "CBC orders 10 episodes of My 90-Year-Old Roommate for Punchline". Playback , April 5, 2016.
  3. "CBC web series score wins as Canadian Screen Awards celebrate all things digital". Yahoo! News, March 10, 2017.