Fresh off a longtime run on one of Canada’s most successful television comedies, Andrew Phung wanted to do something seemingly straightforward: He wanted to make another TV show.
But while that might seem like an obvious step for the writer and producer who’s won the four-time Canadian Screen Award — and that’s only looking at his work on Kim’s Convenience — Phung felt something else. He would be creating his new sitcom, Run the Burbs, just after what’s been called the Golden Age of Canadian television, in the wake of successful shows such as Letterkenny, Schitt’s Creek, Workin’ Moms.
“I feel so much pressure all the
