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Canadian Television Fund Successfully Supports Industry’s Cultural and Commercial Goals

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From a media release:

The Canadian Television Fund (CTF) today presented an overview of the organization’s successes in funding popular, critically acclaimed television programming in its opening presentation at the CRTC’s public hearing on the future of the Fund.

“Canadians are watching CTF-funded programs,” said Valerie Creighton, President of the CTF. “Shows like The Rick Mercer Report and Little Mosque on the Prairie, regularly attain audiences of over one million. Les Boys, Annie et ses hommes, and Destinées all have drawn from one to one and a half million viewers. New shows, such as The Border, Sophie, Heartland, and The Guard are attracting 500,000 to 800,000 viewers. And a recently launched success story in the French market, Les Lavigueur, la vraie histoire, averaged over two million viewers in its first two episodes.”

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In the news: The Border and The Guard as ‘Jack Bauer knockoffs’

From Robert Cushman of the National Post

  • Bullet-proof vetted
    “The Border, apart from contributing to CBC’s new drama push, is part of a movement to shine a glamorous light on government departments with less than glamorous titles. In The Border it’s Immigration and Customs Security; in Global’s The Guard, it’s the Canadian Coastguard’s Search and Rescue Team. The latter sounds as if it should be more thrilling, but so far it’s The Border that’s hit the ground running.” Read more.
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In the news: What Canadian TV gets wrong

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From Jim Henshaw at the Legion of Decency:

  • The Winning Skid
    “But for some reason, our Canadian nets have ignored the overwhelming creative drift toward changing the paradigms and trotted out a selection of knock-offs of shows everybody’s seen and done before — in some cases, long before — and like those eager kids who put on a show in somebody’s barn over the summer, they seem quite proud of themselves for doing little more than not forgetting their lines or bumping into the furniture.” Read more.
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