Very Bad News in Canadian TV Drama
Feb. 13th, 2006 07:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineI just saw the Globe and Mail Arts news today. Hardcopy edition, of course.
If you're a fan of This is Wonderland or Da Vinci's City Hall, you'll be just as minded to have a "WTH!??!" reaction as I to the word: both series are cancelled.
Quoth Ruth-Ellen Soles, CBC spokesbeing: "These are...programs that CBC believed in and attached significant resources to... Unfortunately the audiences for all three have been in steady decline and did not resonate with Canadians. These decisions are always difficult but they had to be made."
I question the perception on the audience decline and the "resonation" angle as well. Especially since I've been watching both series regularly, and speak regularly with others who have the same habits.
And "question" is a polite choice of verb on my part. I don't yet know how to help remedy that error in perception on CBC's part, but this blog entry's going to be where I start.
If you're a fan of This is Wonderland or Da Vinci's City Hall, you'll be just as minded to have a "WTH!??!" reaction as I to the word: both series are cancelled.
Quoth Ruth-Ellen Soles, CBC spokesbeing: "These are...programs that CBC believed in and attached significant resources to... Unfortunately the audiences for all three have been in steady decline and did not resonate with Canadians. These decisions are always difficult but they had to be made."
I question the perception on the audience decline and the "resonation" angle as well. Especially since I've been watching both series regularly, and speak regularly with others who have the same habits.
And "question" is a polite choice of verb on my part. I don't yet know how to help remedy that error in perception on CBC's part, but this blog entry's going to be where I start.
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Re: "This Is Wonderland" and "DaVinci's City Hall"
Date: 2006-02-14 09:58 pm (UTC)I absolutely agree that CBC's worth the trouble and expense in a lot of ways, some of which you've covered in detail in your posting. I hope that we can get something useful done about the two series I'm paying most direct attention to right now, as I figure they're good starting points for reviving the dramatic programming arm of the Corporation.
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