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Fifteen years after The Kids in the Hall aired on CBC Television, the five original members of the Canadian sketch comedy team have reassembled in North Bay, Ont., to shoot an eight-part TV series.

Death Comes to Town will premiere on CBC in January.

The series is about a killing spree in a small town and the trial that follows. It opens with the character of Death, played by Mark McKinney, getting off a Greyhound bus.

"It's our version of comedy… with a whodunit as the engine," Kids co-founder Bruce McCulloch told CBC Radio's cultural affairs program Q from North Bay on Friday.

The troupe's five members — Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, McCulloch, McKinney and Scott Thompson — reunited at Montreal's Just for Laughs festival in 2007 and toured across North America last year. "We never broke up," McCulloch said. "We just didn't do anything."

We like to think our sports offer a way of settling questions too complex, too fractured or even too outdated and old-fashioned to be answered on the square in the real world. Honour, fair play, a level playing field – choose your cliché – it is supposed to be the essence of sports, and central to its universal appeal.

Then Thierry Henry comes along and leaves his fingerprints on the ball, and the biggest crime scene to hit sports since, well, since the last time we went through these sort of conniptions.

Whether we're ready or not, the elusive goal of eternal life is coming within human grasp. What sort of Pandora's box will it open for the planet and our hitherto mortal souls?

AMC unveils a new version of "The Prisoner" Sunday night, and while it's not an exact copy of the Patrick McGoohan original, it does share more than one element of the 1960s series. Chief among them? It's a bit of a mind-frak.

The story of a man ( Jim Caviezel) who wakes up in a remote village with no explanation of how he got there, who finds his name has been replaced with a number -- Six -- and who is at the mercy of the Village's temperamental ruler, Two ( Ian McKellen), "The Prisoner" is a tale of paranoia that often purposely doesn't make the most sense. The idea is to have you questioning its reality (and maybe your own) just as Six does.

In honor of the miniseries' debut, we look at some of our other favorite head trips in pop culture.

The planets will align to make the Earth go boom on Dec. 21, 2012, according to the Maya legend peddled in 2012, Roland Emmerich's latest schlock apocalypse.

An event of far great gravity occurs this very day, Nov. 13, 2009. The newly opened 2012 will be joined at Toronto multiplexes by three other bad movies: Antichrist, Pirate Radio and The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day.

This alignment of awfulness could cause brains to explode across the city.

Or maybe not. Forewarned is forearmed, and lots of people will go to see these movies precisely because they're bad – hoping against hope they'll be of the "so bad it's good" variety