11 thoughts on “A dare to Canadian broadcasters: Walk the talk”
I’ve seen a ton of promotion on American sites for Orphan Black. Its garnering quite a fair bit of buzz. I would love to have seen Bomb Girls get a better chance. Perhaps Bomb Girls could have been moved to a specialty channel like Slice or Showcase if Global didn’t have room for it.
It’s also been said -off the record- that Global has been messing around
with the actual ‘BOMB GIRLS’ rating figures and that they purportedly didn’t
count in PVRs to make the numbers look smaller. I’d be reasonable then if
someone would call on the network and pressure the guys to tell the truth.
It’s funny that the ones who actually believe in this Canadian product are
not the ones producing it, but people from all over the world (including
their Canadian audience, whose wishes to continue watching ‘BOMB GIRLS’
on TV are not being respected).
When did Global ever report the numbers? They’re not the ones measuring ratings – BBM Canada does that. If Global was worried about getting higher ratings and had wanted to continue with the show they wouldn’t have bumped the show so the point is fairly moot anyway, but they don’t need to fudge numbers to justify a cancellation. There’s no magic number at which a show is guaranteed renewal.
I wish Global would come clean on why they boycott the Canadian TV shows they’re supposed to support, in the first place. Nothing worst than a Canadian network not trusting their own!
Orphan Black is one of the best shows on TV. I don’t think anything can keep it down. Especially if TM gets the Emmy nomination she richly deserves.
Don’t even hold your breath waiting for a scifi show to get an Emmy nom. The Emmies look down on scifi. As for Global’s lack of support to Bomb Girls, I’ve seen it a thousand times before and it annoys the hell out of me when a network seems to set out to prevent their own show from succeeding via things like putting a show on a long hiatus, moving it around the schedule so viewers can’t find it, giving very little promotion, putting it in a death slot and canceling it when of course it gets slaughtered in the ratings or sticking it on a weekend nIght where there’s less of the preferred demo watching tv. Some examples I can think of at the top of my head are Freaks and Geeks, Dark Angel, Last Resort, Jericho, Firefly, Buffy, Roswell, Fringe, Nikita, etc.
I will forever hate Bell for cancelling The LA Complex. I remember quite clearly that they did not have any commercials to promote the season 2 finale. Nothing on the MuchMusic Facebook page as well. The CW at aired some commercials and even uploaded the clip on their Youtube channel.
Maybe they didn’t care and probably had their mind set on cancelling the show well before the final episode? What a shame.
“A recent example [of canadian success] is that Shaw successfully cancelled Bomb Girls for low ratings that dropped after Global pulled it off the air and changed timeslots mid-season to make way for an American import.”
“If their shows were in witness protection Bell couldn’t do a much better job of protecting them from prying eyes.”
Love these lines, as an avid television watcher I have often been frustrated trying to figure out which episode of a series is airing when. Now I know why — they don’t tell me! I hope this discussion causes some change in the industry where the broadcasters work harder to provide basic promotion of episodes to viewers.
I’ve seen a ton of promotion on American sites for Orphan Black. Its garnering quite a fair bit of buzz. I would love to have seen Bomb Girls get a better chance. Perhaps Bomb Girls could have been moved to a specialty channel like Slice or Showcase if Global didn’t have room for it.
We’re trying to get Bomb Girls back with a campaign here: http://www.savebombgirls.com
No idea how good our chances are.
It’s also been said -off the record- that Global has been messing around
with the actual ‘BOMB GIRLS’ rating figures and that they purportedly didn’t
count in PVRs to make the numbers look smaller. I’d be reasonable then if
someone would call on the network and pressure the guys to tell the truth.
It’s funny that the ones who actually believe in this Canadian product are
not the ones producing it, but people from all over the world (including
their Canadian audience, whose wishes to continue watching ‘BOMB GIRLS’
on TV are not being respected).
When did Global ever report the numbers? They’re not the ones measuring ratings – BBM Canada does that. If Global was worried about getting higher ratings and had wanted to continue with the show they wouldn’t have bumped the show so the point is fairly moot anyway, but they don’t need to fudge numbers to justify a cancellation. There’s no magic number at which a show is guaranteed renewal.
I wish Global would come clean on why they boycott the Canadian TV shows they’re supposed to support, in the first place. Nothing worst than a Canadian network not trusting their own!
Orphan Black is one of the best shows on TV. I don’t think anything can keep it down. Especially if TM gets the Emmy nomination she richly deserves.
Don’t even hold your breath waiting for a scifi show to get an Emmy nom. The Emmies look down on scifi. As for Global’s lack of support to Bomb Girls, I’ve seen it a thousand times before and it annoys the hell out of me when a network seems to set out to prevent their own show from succeeding via things like putting a show on a long hiatus, moving it around the schedule so viewers can’t find it, giving very little promotion, putting it in a death slot and canceling it when of course it gets slaughtered in the ratings or sticking it on a weekend nIght where there’s less of the preferred demo watching tv. Some examples I can think of at the top of my head are Freaks and Geeks, Dark Angel, Last Resort, Jericho, Firefly, Buffy, Roswell, Fringe, Nikita, etc.
I will forever hate Bell for cancelling The LA Complex. I remember quite clearly that they did not have any commercials to promote the season 2 finale. Nothing on the MuchMusic Facebook page as well. The CW at aired some commercials and even uploaded the clip on their Youtube channel.
Maybe they didn’t care and probably had their mind set on cancelling the show well before the final episode? What a shame.
“A recent example [of canadian success] is that Shaw successfully cancelled Bomb Girls for low ratings that dropped after Global pulled it off the air and changed timeslots mid-season to make way for an American import.”
“If their shows were in witness protection Bell couldn’t do a much better job of protecting them from prying eyes.”
Love these lines, as an avid television watcher I have often been frustrated trying to figure out which episode of a series is airing when. Now I know why — they don’t tell me! I hope this discussion causes some change in the industry where the broadcasters work harder to provide basic promotion of episodes to viewers.