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Rideau Hall 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 Minister 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 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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Canadian television series

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