# Guilt Free Zone

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{{Short description|Canadian television series}}
'''''Guilt Free Zone''''' is a Canadian sketch comedy and variety television series, which premiered on [APTN](/source/Aboriginal_Peoples_Television_Network) in 2015.<ref>[John Doyle](/source/John_Doyle_(critic)), [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/john-doyle-meet-the-real-frat-boys-the-most-appalling-people-on-earth/article34336473/ "Meet the real frat boys, the most appalling people on Earth"]. ''[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)'', March 17, 2017.</ref> The series features musical performances in a fictional bar owned by indigenous Canadian blues musician [Derek Miller](/source/Derek_Miller_(Canadian_musician)), mixed with sketch comedy segments.<ref>Lindsay Monture, [https://tworowtimes.com/arts-and-culture/entertainment/derek-miller-challenges-canadian-entertainment-industry-tv-show/ "Derek Miller challenges the Canadian entertainment industry with TV show"]. ''Two Row Times'', June 15, 2016.</ref>

Comedians associated with the show have included Herbie Barnes, [Amy Matysio](/source/Amy_Matysio), [Darrell Dennis](/source/Darrell_Dennis), [Craig Lauzon](/source/Craig_Lauzon), Camille Stopps, Michaela Washburn, [Sarah Podemski](/source/Sarah_Podemski) and [Gary Farmer](/source/Gary_Farmer), while musical guests have included [Lee Harvey Osmond](/source/Lee_Harvey_Osmond), [Leela Gilday](/source/Leela_Gilday), [DJ Shub](/source/DJ_Shub), Vern Cheechoo, David R. Maracle, Lacey Hill and Arthur Renwick.<ref name=tveh>Greg David, [https://www.tv-eh.com/2018/05/22/aptns-guilt-free-zone-returns-for-raucous-laughs-and-rockin-talent/ "APTN’s Guilt Free Zone returns for raucous laughs and rockin’ talent"]. ''TV, eh?'', May 22, 2018.</ref> The series was first created in 2015 as essentially a [talk show](/source/talk_show) hosted by Miller to interview indigenous Canadian talent, and was reinvented as a variety show after it was determined that the original talk show format made it ineligible for the federal [tax credit](/source/tax_credit)s it had received during the production process.<ref name=tveh/>

The series received two [Canadian Comedy Award](/source/Canadian_Comedy_Award) nominations at the [18th Canadian Comedy Awards](/source/18th_Canadian_Comedy_Awards) in 2018, for Best TV Show and Best Writing in a TV Series or Special (Darrell Dennis for the episode "Cops & Mobsters"). At the [19th Canadian Comedy Awards](/source/19th_Canadian_Comedy_Awards) in 2019, Matysio was a nominee for Best Performance in a TV Series.

==References==
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==External links==
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Category:2010s Canadian variety television series
Category:2015 Canadian television series debuts
Category:Aboriginal Peoples Television Network original programming
Category:First Nations television series

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