Hee Haw (2003 pilot)

In 2003, three pilots (two 44-minutes (one rehearsal, one "ticketed"), one 60-minutes) for a revival of Hee Haw were shot in under producer  for the U.S. market. It was set to air on, but the revival never made it past the pilot stage due to poor results with critics and certain test audiences. The pilot was produced by Tom Lynch Company Studios and. It was hosted by Fernande Soulier and with appearances by  (as Charlie Farquharson),,  and.

Trivia

 * Jacek Fiedorowicz (credited as Jacie Brisby), Barry Berlin and Lazlo Tremblay re-arranged the theme song for these pilots.
 * Shot on August 6, 2003 and August 7, 2003 at Showline Studios Harbourside.
 * Production slates:
 * "HEE HAW REHEARSAL - Rough Cut - Ch. 1 Stereo Mix RC - Ch. 2 SFX RC - TRT: 44:00 - August 6, 2003"
 * "HEE HAW SHOW 001 - Rough Cut - Ch. 1 Stereo Mix RC - Ch. 2 SFX RC - TRT: 44:00 - August 7, 2003"
 * "HEE HAW SHOW 002 - Rough Cut - Ch. 1 Stereo Mix RC - Ch. 2 SFX RC - TRT: 60:00 - August 7, 2003"
 * Soulier mentioned having worked on the pilots in her appearance on Phelan Morkel's Desert Island Discs in 2011. Until the re-arranged theme was uploaded to Jacek Fiedorowicz's SoundCloud in 2013, followed by the pilots surfacing on Vimeo in 2015, it was generally considered by fans to have simply been a joke on Soulier's part.