It's not often that you see CBC and the word "hip" in the same sentence, so brace yourself: New hip-hop drama Drop the Beat makes its debut on CBC Ch. 2 at 8:30 p.m.
An excruciatingly earnest half-hour series from the producers of teen melodrama Straight Up, Beat follows a pair of university campus radio jocks Dennis and Jeff -- played by Straight Up's Merwin Mondesir and Mark Taylor respectively -- as they get down on the fly tip in Toronto.
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