I stole this from Ten Packs in another thread:
Good Canadian TV shows are not as common as they should be. I think this has a lot to do with attempts, especially by the private broadcasters, to imitate the American model. That gives us a second-rate copy of a product that was questionable to begin with.
We do have a lot of talent in Canada though, and when left to its own devices that talent comes up with original programming that rocks.
Think about the shows that the CBC has produced and continues to produce...This is Wonderland, The Newsroom (with Showcase), The Nature of Things, 22 Minutes, Rick Mercer. That's just stuff that I've watched this week.
There are other shows...I wish to hell they wouldn't have cancelled Snakes and Ladders for instance, and a while ago CBC played three sit-com pilots and will produce a series based on popular vote. All three were excellent and none of them looked like a rip-off of an American product.
So where are the Canadian private broadcasters in all of this? We obviously have the talent and ability to produce quality material. They are the ones always yammering about how they can do everything better. So why don't they? Why are they so willing to make us sit through re-runs of predictable slop from another country instead of producing what Canada is so good at?
Good Canadian TV shows are not as common as they should be. I think this has a lot to do with attempts, especially by the private broadcasters, to imitate the American model. That gives us a second-rate copy of a product that was questionable to begin with.
We do have a lot of talent in Canada though, and when left to its own devices that talent comes up with original programming that rocks.
Think about the shows that the CBC has produced and continues to produce...This is Wonderland, The Newsroom (with Showcase), The Nature of Things, 22 Minutes, Rick Mercer. That's just stuff that I've watched this week.
There are other shows...I wish to hell they wouldn't have cancelled Snakes and Ladders for instance, and a while ago CBC played three sit-com pilots and will produce a series based on popular vote. All three were excellent and none of them looked like a rip-off of an American product.
So where are the Canadian private broadcasters in all of this? We obviously have the talent and ability to produce quality material. They are the ones always yammering about how they can do everything better. So why don't they? Why are they so willing to make us sit through re-runs of predictable slop from another country instead of producing what Canada is so good at?
