TORONTO — CTV's "Corner Gas" has been receiving some favourable notices from U.S. critics since it began airing on superstation WGN earlier this month.

The network was preparing a news release Wednesday summarizing some of the kudos the show has received south of the border.

Mike Hughes of Gannett News Service calls "Corner Gas" "one of the new season's best shows" while the Times-Picayune in New Orleans says the Brent Butt sitcom shares comic sensibilities with "TV touchstones" like "Seinfeld," "Northern Exposure" and "Gilmore Girls."

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette marvels that "Corner Gas" is "an amazingly clean show in this day and age - no one's having sex, there's no violence, little-to-no profanity. It's just funny, sometimes wry, sometimes sly."

And the San Jose Mercury News calls the show a "delightful Canadian comedy."

Chicago-based superstation WGN is available in over 70 million U.S. homes.

Butt is scheduled to throw out the first pitch this weekend at Wrigley Field in Chicago before a game between the Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Season 5 of "Corner Gas" premieres in Canada on Sept. 24.

"Corner Gas," which has been a ratings blockbuster for CTV, already airs in some two dozen countries.