Rideau Hall: The TV Series is a Canadian television series broadcast since 2002 on CBC. It stars: Bette MacDonald, Fiona Reid, Jonathan Torrens, Joe Dinicol, and Rejean Cournoyer.

It is a sitcom about an earthy, fading Disco queen (MacDonald) who is appointed Governor General by a sleazy Prime Pinister who hopes she will disgrace the position, allowing him to eliminate it entirely.

Each episode has her becoming embroiled in one scandal or another -- usually not of her making -- only to have things resolve in her favour by the end. Reid plays her prim and proper executive assistant, Torrens her flakey, gay secretary, and Dinicol her laconic, level-headed son. Cournoyer plays the Prime Minister's sleazy aide.

Barry Flatman played the P.M. in the pilot, but did not seem to appear in the regular series.

So far six half-hour episodes (plus the hour long pilot) have aired on the CBC.

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