Toronto, June 23, 2026 – AMI and Hitsby Entertainment have announced that Season 2 of the Canadian Screen Award-nominated series The Squeaky Wheel: Canada will debut on Monday, July 6, at 9 p.m. Eastern on AMI-tv, AMI+, and AMI's YouTube channel. The six-episode half-hour sketch comedy series, based on the online publication The Squeaky Wheel, returns with a satirical news format created and led by writers and performers from the disability community.
Expanded World and New Characters
In Season 2, the newsroom expands into a fully realized world with recurring characters, field reports, and signature segments. Anchored by anchors Arianna Salara (Gaitrie Persaud-Killings) and Grant Gewürztraminer (Graham Kent), a Deaf and hearing duo whose banter is dry and teasing, the show delivers headlines, field reports, and expert analysis that start from lived experience and spiral into bold, absurd comedy.
Returning characters include Mikey D’Ambrosio, formerly a drug dealer, and Guy Capitalism, once a Wall Street bro, who now turn to politics. Mikey becomes a correspondent on Parliament Hill, while Guy becomes the failing-upward Minister of Tokenism. New correspondents include Mistress Painelope, a dominatrix-turned-economic expert; Rainey Delaney, a weather reporter whose body predicts the forecast; Polly Kakipolis, a traffic reporter navigating failed commutes; and Megan Mapledon, an unapologetically Canadian international reporter.
New Signature Segments
New segments include “Comeback Queen,” an on-demand video call from a drag queen responding to ableism, and “Bed Banshee,” forecasting the future from bed. Alongside Top 5s and pop culture segments, each episode builds within a structured news format, shifting in scale, tone, and perspective.
“One thing we learned while making Season 2 is that comedy isn’t a finite resource,” said 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.”
Authentic Comedy from Lived Experience
“What makes this series so real is that the jokes come from the people who live the punchline,” said 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.”
The series pokes fun at the ableist world, flipping the lens to tell stories from the inside out. It is a sharp, character-driven comedy with an irreverent point of view, finding humor in friction, contradictions, and familiar moments.
