{"id":7628,"date":"2017-09-09T23:36:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T03:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=7628"},"modified":"2017-09-09T23:36:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T03:36:55","slug":"im-chris-jericho-now-streaming-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/09\/09\/im-chris-jericho-now-streaming-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"But I&#8217;m Chris Jericho Picked Up By CBC, Season 2 Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not many people seemed to be aware of <strong>Chris Jericho<\/strong>&#8216;s 10-episode web series <em><strong>But I&#8217;m Chris Jericho<\/strong><\/em> hit the airwaves (webwaves?) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2013\/11\/04\/chris-jericho-wwe-interview_n_4214463.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">back in 2013<\/a>. It didn&#8217;t get a whole lot of press, mainly because Chris Jericho was coming off a hit-and-miss comeback that saw him lose to <strong>Fandango\u00a0<\/strong>(at\u00a0<em><strong>WrestleMania<\/strong><\/em>), feud with <strong>CM Punk<\/strong>, then go out with forgettable runs with <strong>Dolph Ziggler<\/strong> and <strong>Curtis Axel<\/strong>. He hadn&#8217;t yet come back to face <strong>AJ Styles<\/strong> or form a legendary partnership with <strong>Kevin Owens<\/strong>. But good news. The indie Canadian comedy series, with also features such Canadian comedians as <strong>Scott Thompson<\/strong> (<em><strong>Kids In The Hall<\/strong><\/em>), <strong>Colin Mochrie<\/strong> (<em><strong>Whose Line Is It Anyway?<\/strong><\/em>), plus <strong>Andy Kindler<\/strong> (Mort on <em><strong>Bob&#8217;s Burgers<\/strong><\/em>), has been picked up by <strong>CBC Television<\/strong> in Jericho&#8217;s homeland Canada. The series is a fictionalized account of Chris Jericho post-WWE trying to make it as a big time actor, featuring Thompson as his acting coach and Mochrie as a classmate. CBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/mediacentre\/press-release\/cbc-announces-2017-18-programming-slate\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made the announcement they will be producing Season 2 of the series<\/a>, as part of their new digital media division, in the form of 6 more episodes.<\/p>\n<p>In honour of that announcement, CBC released the entire original season one from 2013 on it&#8217;s YouTube channel and web page. You can watch the entire 10-part series below, while we descend into another Chris Jericho self-imposed WWE exile, in preparation for the launch of <em>But I&#8217;m Chris Jericho!<\/em> Season 2 this Fall.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Originals: But I&#039;m Chris Jericho! (Season 1)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLo_UQZib9jJi5QjT8tOC7QuxpnZUNlxG8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not many people seemed to be aware of Chris Jericho&#8216;s 10-episode web series But I&#8217;m Chris Jericho hit the airwaves (webwaves?) back in 2013. It didn&#8217;t get a whole lot of press, mainly because Chris Jericho was coming off a hit-and-miss comeback that saw him lose to Fandango\u00a0(at\u00a0WrestleMania), feud with CM Punk, then go out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":7629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[1420,1421,107,73,1422,47],"class_list":["post-7628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-but-im-chris-jericho","tag-cbc","tag-chris-jericho","tag-kevin-owens","tag-season-two","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}