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dewline at Michael Enright on Canadian Politics in TV Drama Fiction

Presented with one comment: that Chris Haddock had a solution to Mr. Enright's concern on the air. At the time it was titled Da Vinci's City Hall, and had it outlived Richard Stursberg's decision-making processes, it might have evolved into Da Vinci's Parliament.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/borgen-armenian-genocide-listener-mail-robert-harris-on-the-great-american-songbook-1.3037372/politics-as-entertainment-michael-s-essay-1.3037593

Thoughts, anyone?

I know that this isn't going to endear me to people who believe that the CBC Must "DIE DIE DIE for Darkseid!"

Ahem.

Sorry about that. Slight meme-attack by the Anti-Life Equation there. (As first explained by Jack Kirby and built upon by Grant Morrison, that is.)

Anyway.

Denis McGrath briefly "unretired" his weblog to transplant something he said on Facebook the other day.

I'm one of those "people who want to complain about the CBC cancelling Intelligence" - hey, Chris Haddock did some damn fine TV with that show, and it ended too bloody soon! - but as a supporter of CBC's existence, I have to acknowledge that Denis gets the point and shared it with the world at large because he recognized the need to share it.

CBC's getting it right here more often than not.

I just wish my earlier favourite shows hadn't gotten the axe to make room for these. There should've been room in the budget for everything I liked and this stuff too.

The CBC's worth the money we shell out for it as Canadians. And it's worth more than we're being trained to be willing to shell out for it, too.

Not apologizing for saying it, nor for believing it too.

Thanks, Denis. We needed the reminder.

Current Mood: excited

Well, it's a not-so-quiet weekend here. At the moment, I'm sitting in one of the Bridgehead coffeehouses - fair-trade tea and coffee and free wi-fi access being among their many trademarks, more about that later - and trying to cobble together the 2008 Ashcan Sampler for that Ottawa Small Press Book Fair next weekend. I can't claim to be the world's best desktop publishing layout specialist by any means, but I have tools enough at hand to make a decent go of it.

I do wish Corel would return to making CorelDRAW for the Mac, though. Version 11's fine, but some day I will hit a wall that I can't climb with it. (Or I could start fiddling with Inkscape in earnest, I suppose.)

I wanted to watch The Quality of Life, the new Dominic Da Vinci movie starring Nicholas Campbell as Da Vinci, last night. Damn the luck that saw my part of east Ottawa suffer a blackout from 8 to 11 PM EST. Just long enough to ensure that I watched not a second of that movie. Hoping that CBC reruns it soon, or that Haddock Entertainment gets the DVD into stores even sooner.

I still miss my Dad.

Those of you who still have yours? Enjoy'em while you've got'em.

Current Mood: busy

Something I sent off to CBC Audience Relations tonight in my role as an activist-fan:

I want a third season of _Intelligence_ to be part of CBC's 2008-'09 viewing schedule. Despite what the ratings appear to suggest, it is one of the best drama offerings in the CBC English-language television slate these past two years. This series would make a strong counterpoint to _The Border_ and the opportunities for cross-promotion are considerable.

NB: I'll be posting this message on my Livejournal weblog to make my feelings known to the public at large around the world; Like many other viewers, I know full well the success _Intelligence_ has had to date in international syndication. It would be good to see _Intelligence_'s international fandom also be well-served by CBC.

Current Mood: hopeful

I first spotted this item in today's print edition of the Toronto Star, an endorsement of the quality and content of Chris Haddock's latest TV series from a man who damn well ought to know what he's talking about, from both the entertainment and intelligence tradecraft sides of the fence:

http://www.thestar.com/article/283846

Read and pay attention.

If you're in Canada, watch CBC tomorrow night. If not, make sure you reserve your copy of the first season of Intelligence on DVD at your video/music shop for purchase in April of '08.

Further on the subject from Denis McGrath here. As with the Star article, I recommend a close read-through.

Current Mood: hopeful

...about at least one of his theories because I'm a fan of his TV series Intelligence. It's a damn good crime/espionage drama, and the first season's about to go retail on DVD. If you're fans of Queen & Country for example, I think it's a TV show worth your time.

I want to see it get a third, fourth, and fifth season. At minimum.

You will want to judge his latest comments for yourselves, though...and considering that the second half of next week's installments is entitled "We Were Here, Now We Disappear"...I'm more than a little worried.

Current Mood: worried
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