What? CBC is going to air Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune? How lame is that.
Now I’ve enjoyed both shows on occasion but is CBC really that idea deprived that their just going to buy American game shows now? I mean, sure they have Canadian hosts (if you still count as Canadian after 30 years or so in America) and they are the aristocracy of game show hosts (though Bob Barker still is king!) but it just sticks in my throat for some reason.
We sold the Hockey Night In Canada Theme song!
Here is Steven Colbert rightly rubbing it in our face.
Sometimes I read comments on blogs but usually I dont. It seems that many comments are filled up with spite filled vitriol by guys named “Wilson” (dont believe me? Take a look through any Canadian newspaper’s commenters and Wilson is everywhere). Why dont I read them? Well as much as I believe they have a right to free speech as objectionable as much of it is, I also have a right to ignore them.
What will it take to silence this idiot McVety. He’s got a petition of 750000 names? Big fucking deal Chuck you live in a country of 32 million. I think we as Canadians need to tell Rev McVety to shut up and let Canadians decide what Canadians want. Not some half educated populist nutbar.
I am 100% removing all tax free status from religious organizations. Check out his lame ass answers.
What is dirty and offensive McVety? You definitely are to me
I have far too much time on my hands and one of the problems with having too much time on your hands is minor things become major annoyances. Take the Home Made Simple Squad. Lead by the terrifying Kim Woodburn, the HMSS is hell bent on pulling the status of women back to the fifties whilst portraying men as incapable of wiping their own ass without the help of their wives and most likely a sheet of Bounce to keep things smelling fresh.
Vancouver legend and fashion plate Bruno Gerussi used to have a show on the CBC in the late seventies called Celebrity Cooks. I dont remember all that much about the show other than hazy memories of being home sick from school and hitting the dead spot of morning TV where nothing was on for 8 year olds (it was repeats in the 80s that I saw not the 70’s). Seeing it now I did not realize that Bruno Gerussi had such a love of floral shirts but he does remind me of a day when Canadian tv seemed more human and more watchable than what we get today. Check out his blender incident in the intro. If only cooking shows were as exciting today. Then again we get overwrought on production, poorly cast shows like Jpod or worse MVP.
…Attempts at Hip, Hot and Happenin’
Seems like CBC television is in need of a serious shake up. This, of course, has been true for a long time but this old public stalwart surely must now admit it as a whole slew of its new productions are cancelled in the first season. The heavily pushed Jpod and MVP among them for the simple reason that they sucked ass.
Local Vancouver scenesters immediately started whining about Jpod’s cancellation, extolling its perfection, their mindless loyalty to local industry blinding them to all notions of quality. CBC, in its consistently ill fated attempts to reach a youth market, gave these hacks their shot at the big time and predictably they produced slick, glossy piles of shit.
