Blame Canada for not making compelling TV

From Yoni Goldstein of Huffington Post Canada:

  • Less Canadian Content at CBC would be a Good Thing
    Of all the transgressions and failures the CBC has been accused of — with renewed vigour since the Conservative government brought down its budget — there is one indictment the Mother Corp. doesn’t deserve. Point fingers all you want at the national broadcaster’s bloated bureaucracy, its holier-than-thou intellectualism and slanted politics, but don’t blame it for failing to produce entertaining English-language TV. The CBC has nothing — or at least very little — to work with on this file. The truth is, Canadians just aren’t very good at making compelling TV. Read more.
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New tonight: The Firm, W5

The Firm, Global – “Chapter 13 – Trusting Others”
Angry at being deceived, Mitch and Ray confront Andrew, who finally comes clean and offers to help expose Kinross & Clark to the FBI. Meanwhile, Abby tries to convince the authorities to stop another murder from happening.

W5, CTV – “Used & Abused” and “The Obsession”
W5 wraps up a season of powerful, informative and inspirational documentaries with an up-close investigation of the world of used car sales. Conducted in partnership with the Automobile Protection Association (APA), W5’s annual hidden-camera investigation (“Used & Abused”) airs this Saturday, April 14 at 7 p.m. ET on CTV and CTV Mobile. CTV’s Seamus O’Regan, on special assignment for W5, uncovers the tricks used by “curb siders” who misrepresent themselves as ordinary individuals who claim to be selling the family vehicle, while often flipping badly repaired cars to unsuspecting buyers, and then disappear without a trace. Also in this episode, W5 explores Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), the fourth most common mental disorder in the world, affecting an estimated one million Canadians. In “The Obsession” CTV’s Health Correspondent Avis Favaro, takes an intimate look at an intensive new therapy that is helping successfully overcome the symptoms that hijack their lives.

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