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In outport Newfoundland, it is often left to one enterprising family to literally taxi the residents of the town from cradle to grave—offering wedding, funeral and ambulance services all under the same roof.   Hatching, Matching & Dispatching is a new comedy about one such family—the Fureys.

Laced with Newfoundland’s singular black humour Hatching, Matching & Dispatching follows the adventures of the Furey family and their daily dealings with the lovesick, the plain sick, the old, the infirm, the newborn, the automotively challenged, the bereaved, the heartbroken, the dead and the dead drunk.

The ensemble cast includes Mary Walsh (Mambo Italiano, This Hour Has 22 Minutes) as the family matriarch, along with Mark McKinney (Saddest Music In The World, Kids inthe Hall), Shaun Majumder (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Cedric The Entertainer), Rick Boland (The Divine Ryans), Susan Kent (Violet) and Sherry White (The Bread Maker).

Tuesday, July 18, 2006
8:30pm
9pm Nfld

Episode 1

When the Fureys hold a funeral for their former teacher Mrs. Doyle, Darlene gives her a posthumous makeover with surprising results. The family hosts a gay wedding, Todd and Troy debate lifestyles and the Bible, Cyril has an accident while moose hunting with Nick, Todd sells the most expensive coffin in stock, and Mamie Lou & Phonse discuss the pros and cons of a family business. Guest star: Cathy Jones.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
8:30pm
9pm Nfld

Episode 2

Troysie’s girlfriend Alma is living in his room as a stowaway. Myrna brings in Kitty, a stripper, to teach people to strip for their husbands. It’s a business venture – good for wedding showers – “not whorish stripping” according to Myrna. Nick is applying for a job at the CBC as the host of a new kids show. Todd and Troy deliver a baby onboard the ambulance for a woman called Frankenpuss. The Furey’s have their first ever funeral for a pet. Cyril digs for treasure and finds something else all together. Troy and his cross-eyed pal talk about livin’ the dream and vaginas and we learn a whole lot about Myrna’s raging, hormonally-imbalanced adolescence and even more about Mamie Lou’s strealing around in her pelt with the windows wide open, her internal thermostat up on bust from the change.

Tuesday, Aug 1, 2006
8:30pm
9pm Nfld

Episode 3

Nick, Cyril, Troy and Todd, or ‘da boys, are up in the woods gettin’ their moose when they get whacked on stinky ‘ol bog weed. It gets weird, like in DELIVERANCE but here is the thing - are they the guys who have to squeal like a pig in DELIVERENCE or are they the other fellas? Ooohh, scary. All is revealed and Cyril gets to know the moose. Yes, in the biblical sense. Myrna struggles with the family disease and it is not diabetes. Todd and Myrna make wedding videos that explain the rituals of a traditional Newfoundland wedding. Suddenly Swollen Member is not just a name of a ho-hum hip hop group for Troysie any more when he gets his “bird” pierced. Mamie Lou has to rush to the rescue of her poor pierced pet rabbit, Todd can’t seem to get over the fact that there isn’t a Starbucks in Tray Cove and Darlene gives Nick a taste of the final make over.

Tuesday, Aug 8, 2006
8:30pm
9pm Nfld

Episode 4

Nick is in the closet getting a leg over another blushing bride when his button becomes entangled in the brides garter. Phonse is totally useless because of his drinking and Myrna insists that the family stage an intervention. Mamie Lou and Darlene explain why we now call our front parlor The Living Room, and how the Fureys got started in The Dismal Trade. Alma reveals her worries about maybe having been born with a few of the wrong bits. And Mamie Lou bemoans the fate of mothers everywhere.

Tuesday, Aug 15, 2006
8:30pm
9pm Nfld

Episode 5

Turns out that when Troysie was a baby he thought Mamie Lou and Phonse should be called, "Underputters", not Undertakers because he noticed that they never took the dead ones under. Myrna promises to produce a full scale, traditional Chinese wedding. Things quickly go amiss and the antic Asian japes ensue. Cyril's beloved Debbie breaks up with him, claiming she has had better sex with the arm of a chair but Nick promises to drop by and see if he can't bang some sense into her. Cyril is eternally grateful. Todd and Troy get embroiled in a racket when their rival ambulance service shows up for the same call. Todd takes a beating and realizes he can bear his life with the Furey's no longer. He snaps, leaving the ambulance in the ditch. And Darlene complains that Mamie Lou won't let her do anything, not even die!

Tuesday, Aug 22, 2006
8:30pm
9pm Nfld

Episode 6

Cyril drops a bomb at his wedding and Darlene does Debbie but not in the, "Debbie does Dallas" sense of "does". Nick claims total innocence while Mamie Lou and Cyril get intimate, and somewhat interactive, in the men's can. Mamie Lou starts to get weirded out by Darlene's comfort level with the dead. Poor Mrs. Rahjeev, you remember her, she is the Sunni woman who tragically lost her mother in the pilot episode, well, now she is ready to deliver her first child and freaks when Todd and Troy turn up to take her to the hospital. Myrna catches Alma during a late night fridge raid and Mamie Lou begins to suspect she might have a stow away. Phonse and Mamie Lou crush Todd's hopes for a first "Mortuary Digester" on the island and poor Cyril gets run down as Nick and Darlene drive happily into the sunset.