Category: MVP
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MVP: Most Vindicated Player?
Back in January, I blogged here about the new hockey soap MVP, having done a little work on the pilot a year prior. I called it “big, stupid, nasty, trashy fun”, and wondered if the CBC could handle such a show. Of course, we know now that it couldn’t. As usually happens, there was some…
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CBC axes Intelligence, jPod, MVP
According to the Globe and Mail the CBC is axing the contentious Chris Haddock program Intelligence for next season along with MVP and (my personal favorite recent CBC show) jPod. No announcement has been made about what will replace any of them. It should be noted that Intelligence is apparently being re-created for Fox television…
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RVT: 22 Minutes MVC (most valuable curler)
This Hour Has 22 Minutes take on MVP: MVC: the Secret Life of Curlers
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Mixed Reactions to New CBC Shows
jPod Canadian Press: Alan Thicke a hoot as the boozing, degenerate father figure on CBC’s ‘JPod’ Toronto Star:CBC has a winner in jPod Montreal Gazette:Radical rethink at CBC coughs up some seriously clichéd comedy The Vancouver Province: jPod set squarely in Couplandia National Post: Not quite a step up the Kitchener Waterloo Record: CBC’s jPOD…
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Who taught you to live like that?
And so Canada now endures the premiere week for the new CBC shows they’ve been promo-ing down our throats. We’ve got some CSI chick to help make the border patrol seem sexy, an Anglo remake of a big Quebec sitcom (hey, it worked great with Rumeurs!) and a Douglas Coupland adaptation (which I am rooting…
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New CBC TV Shows for January
The CBC has a whack of new shows coming in January. I had hoped to post Trailers for them, but in classic CBC style the only trailer they have on YouTube is for the least interesting of the bunch. There was a spat during the fall between intelligence creator Chris Haddock and the CBC because…