Billable Hours is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 series, which airs on Showcase.

Set in the fictional Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

 law firm of Fagen & Harrison, the series focuses on three young lawyers struggling to balance their expectations in life with the difficult realities of building a career in law.

The series debuted on Showcase in 2006 and is produced by Temple Street Productions

Temple Street Productions

Established in 1996, Temple Street Productions is an independent television, film and digital media production company based in Toronto, Canada. The company produces scripted and unscripted productions from primetime television dramas and comedies, as well as youth programs, feature films and...

, the same company that produced Queer as Folk for Showcase in Canada and Showtime in the U.S. The second season premiered in April 2007 and is accompanied by a 10 part webisode series entitled Billable Minutes. The third season of the show premiered in October 2008.

In Australia

Australia

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, series one, two and three were all aired back-to-back on ABC2

ABC2

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 each Thursday at 10:30pm from 27 August 2009 and have since been repeated on a later timeslot.

Cast

• Brandon Firla
  Brandon Firla
  Brandon Firla is a Canadian actor and comedian, currently best known for his role as Clark Claxton on the television sitcom Billable Hours...
  
   - Clark Claxton III
• Fabrizio Filippo - Sam Caponelli
• Jennifer Baxter
  Jennifer Baxter
  Jennifer Baxter is a Canadian actress and comedian formerly based out of Toronto and currently living in Los Angeles with her husband Mike Beaver....
  
   - Robin Howland
• Dov Tiefenbach
  Dov Tiefenbach
  Dov Yosef Tiefenbach is a Canadian actor and musician.Tiefenbach was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He began his acting career at the age of 12, first starting off in commercials before playing the role of 'Josh Avery' in the television series RoboCop , and landed his first starring role as...
  
   - Stu Berger
• Jane Luk - Cam Belter, office manager
• Aron Tager
  Aron Tager
  Aron Tager is an American actor and artist.- Background :As an artist, Tager has had numerous exhibitions of his work and has sculptures installed at the following locations: Mount Anthony Union High School, Bennington, VT; Shaftsbury Elementary School, VT; Delaware County Community College,...
  
   - Mortie Fagen, head partner
• Enis Esmer
  Enis Esmer
  Ennis Esmer is a Canadian actor and comedian of Turkish descent. He first came to prominence as the host of Toronto 1's short-lived variety series The Toronto Show in 2003...
  
   - Zoltan
• Mike Beaver
  Mike Beaver
  Mike Beaver is a Canadian born comic actor and writer currently living in Los Angeles. He first hit the comedy scene back in 1996 with The Bobroom, a sketch comedy troupe from Toronto, that he co-founded. Mike received rave reviews for his fearless comedy style and committed characters. The...
  
   - Murray Stipple
• Ron Gabriel - Seth Kaplin, managing partner
• Jayne Eastwood
  Jayne Eastwood
  Jayne Eastwood , also credited as Jane Easton or Jane Eastwood, is a Canadian actress most famous for appearing in the 2002 film Chicago. She was one of the original cast members of the Toronto branch of The Second City, and was a semi-regular on SCTV...
  
   - Maxine Bingly
• Robin Brûlé
  Robin Brûlé
  Robin Brûlé is a Canadian actress, who is best known for her role as Susan Hunter in the Roxy Hunter series.-Acting career:Robin first studied acting at the Canterbury School of the Arts in Ottawa, Ontario...
  
   - Millie Larkin, Clark's assistant
• Arnold Pinnock - Vic Laghm

Season 1

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Season 2

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Season 3

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External links

• Billable Hours official website.
• Billable Hours at TV.com.
• Labour Pains article from the CBC
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• Double billing in dark humour department article from the Toronto Star
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