Trivia / Republic of Doyle

• Copiously Credited Creator: Allan Hawco is the show's star, creator, and producer. He also writes and directs multiple episodes each season.
• Creator's Oddball: Russell Crowe, an Oscar award-winning actor with a healthy international film career, guest starred for one episode of this series, a cult Canadian dramedy. He did it as favour to Allan Hawco, with whom he's good friends and for the chance to hang out with Alan Doyle, another friend.
• Dawson Casting: Twenty-year old Marthe Bernard played sixteen-year-old Tinny in season one, and Lola Tash later played sixteen-year-old Sloane. Mark O'Brien was 26 when the series began, playing late-teens Des.
• Directed by Cast Member: Mark O'Brien directed the season six episode "No Rest for the Convicted," and Allan Hawco directed the season six episode "Dirty Deeds." Of course, Hawco is also co-creator and executive producer of the series, and wrote or co-wrote many of the episodes.
• Fake Nationality: Sean McGinley is an Irishman playing a Newfoundlander.
• Like You Would Really Do It: C'mon, did anyone honestly believe they'd kill off either Des or Leslie?
• Keep Circulating The Tapes: The pilot episode "Hidden Agenda", which was not included in the DVDs released in North America and Australia/New Zealand/Oceania as CBC reshot the pilot with a different plot and a different actor who played as Malachy.
• No Stunt Double: Allan Hawco did his own driving stunts.
• Playing Against Type: Paul Gross, still best-known as the virtuous Benton Fraser on Due South, as the self-serving Kevin Crocker.