It was a podcast chock-full of things for Diane, Anthony and Greg to discuss, including giving a well-deserved shout-out to our loyal Patreons who help keep the podcast up and running.

We also chatted about the fine character evolution we’ve enjoyed on Schitt’s Creek, the interesting fact that Vikings is filming some pre-production stuff with Alexander Ludwig in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and remarked on how Sudbury, Ont., is becoming a hotbed for TV production with TVO/APTN’s Hard Rock Medical, CraveTV’s Letterkenny and Super Channel’s What Would Sal Do? all setting up shop there.

Diane prepped us on Slice’s upcoming documentary series, Emergency, which spotlights the patients and staff at the Fraser Health network of hospitals, a.k.a. Diane’s day job, we celebrated Jim Henshaw’s blog, The Legion of Decency, and closed out by asking Anthony what channels he’d select as part of his Pick and Pay cable lineup.

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Born in the USA and raised in Canada, Hart Hanson abandoned his dreams of being a guitar god, and graduated from University College, University of Toronto, with a degree in English and Political Theory. He decided to kickstart a writing career by riding his bicycle across Canada, documenting his adventures for the Toronto Sunday Sun.

Hanson wrote for a number of Canadian television programs, including The Black Stallion, Neon Rider, Northwood, The Odyssey, Outer Limits, Poltergeist, Road to Avonlea and the series Ready or Not, for which he received his first Gemini (Canadian Emmy) nomination.

Hanson wrote the pilot for Traders, which was picked up by the Global Television Network and ran for five years, winning many Geminis, including “Best Writing” for Hanson.

Hanson and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he worked on the short-lived series Cupid as a Supervising Producer, then as Co-Executive Producer on the even-shorter-lived series Snoops. He moved to Twentieth Century Fox and worked on the series Judging Amy for three seasons, rising to executive producer. He also helped launch the series Joan of Arcadia, and eventually wrote the pilot for what is now a decade-long run of Bones on FOX.

His newest series Backstrom premiered on FOX in January.

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The bulk of this week’s show featured Diane, Anthony and Greg breaking down the major points of the CRTC’s latest decision regarding the future of Canadian TV. (Special kudos to Kelly Lynne Ashton for her easy-to-understand breakdown of the decisions: you can find the links to them in this week’s He Said/She Said column.)

Also on tap: a chat about Chris Haddock’s return to the CBC with The Romeo Section and the Canada-Brazil co-production Rio Heat, which we kinda hope is so bad it’s good.

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