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The series, a satire of film and television production, revolved around Pyramid Productions, a viper’s nest of creative incompetence, savage greed and hysterical backbiting in which Richard Strong ( Rick Mercer) tried to navigate his way to the top of the corporate ladder. The firm's CEO was Alan Roy ( Peter Keleghan), a charismatic but intellectually vacant womanizer who often succeeded more by accident than skill. Accountant Veronica Miller ( Leah Pinsent), corporate weasel Victor Sela ( Dan Lett ) and secretary Wanda ( Jackie Torrens ) rounded out the main office staff, whose schemes and misadventures in getting their jobs done each day provided the dramatic focus of the series.

The company's projects also provided storylines for the series, as the staff of Pyramid tried to manage the inevitable complications provided by the casts and crews of their film and television productions. The company's cash cows were two series, The Sword of Damocles (a parody of mythological adventure series such as and HerculesHercules was the name in Roman mythology of the hero Heracles from Greek mythology, the son of Jupiter (or Jove, the Roman name for the Greek god Zeus) and the mortal Alcmene. He was made to perform twelve great tasks, called the Twelve Labours of Hercule) and Beaver Creek (a parody of Canadian period dramas such as Anne of Green GablesAnne of Green Gables a children's book by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, was first published in 1908. Montgomery found her inspiration for the book in a newspaper article about a couple who were mistakenly sent an orphan girl instead of a boy yet d -- Megan Follows even appeared in one episode as Mandy Forward, the former "Adele of Beaver Creek", who returned for a reunion movie and discovered that after her previous Beaver Creek reunion movie, Richard had kept the sets up for two more weeks in order to produce an Adele of Beaver Creek porn knockoff.)

The show's third and fourth seasons won the Gemini Award for Best Comedy Series.

The Theme song; "Blow at High Dough" is performed by The Tragically HipThe Tragically Hip is a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario. The Tragically Hip often referred to simply as The Hip consist of Bobby Baker ( guitar), Gordon Downie (vocals, guitar), Johnny Fay ( drums), Paul Langlois (guitar), and Gord Sinclair ( ba.

The series is both produced by and is a parody of Salter Street FilmsSalter Street Films is a Canadian television and movie production company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The company was founded by brothers Paul and Michael Donovan. Paul Donovan was trained as director and still directs projects for Salter Street. Micha and Island Edge IncIsland Edge Inc is a Canadian television production company founded by Rick Mercer and Gerald Lunz in 1998. It produces, Talking to Americans Made in Canada and Rick Mercer's Monday Report for the CBC..