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TORONTO, June 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — They’re back and squeakier than ever! AMI and Hitsby Entertainment are pleased to announce that Season 2 of The Squeaky Wheel: Canada will debut Monday, July 6, at 9 p.m. Eastern on AMI-tv, AMI+ and on AMI’s YouTube channel.
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The Squeaky Wheel: Canada is a six-episode half-hour sketch comedy series in a satirical news format, based on the online publication The Squeaky Wheel. Created and led by writers and performers from the disability community, the series pokes fun at the ableist world we live in, flipping the lens to tell stories from the inside out. It’s a sharp, character-driven comedy with a very irreverent point of view.
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In Season 2, the newsroom expands into a fully realized world of recurring characters, field reports and signature segments. Anchored by Arianna Salara (Gaitrie Persaud-Killings) and Grant Gewürztraminer (Graham Kent), a Deaf and hearing duo whose banter is equal parts dry and teasing, the show delivers headlines, field reports and expert analysis that start from lived experience and spiral into bold, absurd comedy.
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“One thing we learned while making Season 2 is that comedy isn’t a finite resource,” says showrunner and series producer, Michelle Asgarali. “The more Disabled voices you add—whether that’s in the writers’ room, on set, in front of the camera, or in the edit suite—the weirder, sharper and more delightfully unhinged the ideas become.”
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“What makes this series so real is that the jokes come from the people who live the punchline,” says Cara Nye, Director of Content and Production at AMI. “When your writers’ room has actually lived in the world they’re satirizing, you don’t have to make up the absurdity. That’s what makes The Squeaky Wheel: Canada so fun, and sometimes uncomfortable to watch.”
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Across the season, The Squeaky Wheel: Canada finds its comedy in the friction, the contradictions, and the moments that feel all too familiar.
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Returning characters Mikey D’Ambrosio, formerly a drug dealer, and Guy Capitalism, once a Wall Street bro, now turn their hand to politics. Mikey lands on Parliament Hill as a correspondent, while Guy becomes the failing-upward Minister of Tokenism.
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They’re joined by a lineup of new correspondents: Mistress Painelope, a dominatrix-turned-economic expert who approaches capitalism with a very specific set of rules; Rainey Delaney, a weather reporter whose body—comorbidities and all—predicts the forecast; Polly Kakipolis, a traffic reporter navigating the city one failed commute at a time; and Megan Mapledon, an unapologetically Canadian international reporter covering global stories with local confidence.
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New signature segments include “Comeback Queen,” an on-demand, video call from your go-to drag queen to say exactly what ableism deserves to hear, and “Bed Banshee,” forecasting the future from her bed. Alongside Top 5s and pop culture segments, each episode builds within a structured news format, shifting in scale, tone and perspective.
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