Mark McKinney Needs a Hobby (2024)
Follow actor and writer Mark McKinney as he embarks on an epic quest to answer perhaps the most pressing question of our age – who are we when we’re not working? Mark travels throughout North America to meet the world’s most audacious hobbyists, and the communities of like-minded obsessives who nurture them, all to find that one, true, perfect hobby he can claim as his own.
Mark McKinney Needs a Hobby: Season 1 - 10 Episode s
1x1 - Birding
October 2, 2024
McKinney travels to the Canadian shores of Lake Erie to learn everything there is to know about birding and birdwatching. Over the course of his visit, he embarks on a journey to the Long Point Nature Preserve, tags and releases birds at a Birds Canada outpost, and accompanies his host to a tattoo parlor where birding memories aren’t just made, but painfully memorialized.
1x2 - Historical Re-Enactment
October 9, 2024
Mark McKinney joins his hobbyist host, Aurora, and travels to Ontario's Kawarthas to spend two days living as a 14th century knight. With pavilions and tents pitched in the middle of a field, Mark will dress, eat, live, and sleep in a wholly medieval world – where he will also help with cooking, try his hand at archery, learn longsword techniques, take in a duel between two knights, and, ultimately, perform a bespoke "medieval stand up comedy set" as his offering to the May Queen who presides over the weekend events.
1x3 - Barbershop Quartet Singing
October 16, 2024
Mark McKinney is hosted by a Toronto-based barbershop quartet as he learns the ropes, notes, and techniques that go into the art of singing in four-part harmony.
1x4 - TBA
October 23, 2024
1x5 - TBA
October 30, 2024
1x6 - TBA
November 6, 2024
1x7 - TBA
November 13, 2024
1x8 - TBA
November 20, 2024
1x9 - TBA
November 27, 2024
1x10 - TBA
December 4, 2024