Posted by rationalize this! at dynamic-489.comnet.ca on February 21, 2000 at 23:52:50:
This whole ABC trauma seems to be a lot of unnecessary hassle and guff in my opinion. Where I'm from there is equal opportunity for random giftless people to become media whores within our frosty borders and inevitably get exported to the harsh demesne of American entertainment (once they've developed their talents to the point in which the salary seems hardly enough to support the pending addictions to Tim Horton donuts and Molson Ex. hey this is Canada I'm talking about). Needless to say networks do make the effort to keep anyone who actually does have raw talent happy and in the public eye (yes i've seen even Hockey Night In Canada pre-empted for pilot episodes of sitcoms).
CBC (primarily gov't funded network), for example, realizes that if in fact even the talentless-hacks and goons get exported it will mean a few more contracts will be bought up by American networks in American funds (did you know that about 3 dollars in US currency could buy the whole province of Quebec and all of the sex clubs contained? it's true, I kid you not). Even if the exported Canadian tv giants get trampled and spiral into realizations that their dreams of making it big were none but a chimera they can always come back to where they were before they left (with free health care, cleaner air and praise for even their mediawhore misadventures 'cross the border to boot).
I suppose we're just pretty big on loyalty in Canadian Media, or perhaps I'm just pretty big on the bottle tonight. Ugh, what am I doing posting on some messageboard when I could be looking for pornographic degrassi fan fiction on the net?
dayam.
celeste.