JULY 10 on CBS. Flashpoint returns to CBS June 4. And Rookie Blue goes to ABC June 24. So we'll finally have three Canadian produced series on U.S. Nets at the same time.
Depending on the reception, this might cement the whole "Canadians fill the summer strategy." Or maybe it'll start the backlash. Considering the kinda cavalier way FP was treated, there's so much more potential down than up that all the hoopla over this model two years ago seems kind of silly now.
Then again, anybody still remember crime time after primetime on CBS?
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I remember "Crimetime", but I am old...
best thing to come out of it of course, was FOREVER KNIGHT which still has a pretty strong fan base worldwide.
That reminds me, is NBC's Killer Comebacks a repackaging and/or porting over of the TVtropolis show?
If it is, I'm amazed NBC would pick up such a cheaply-made, terrible show. I can understand Howie Do It and The Listener, but the quality meter has to be limbo-low for Killer Comebacks to be worthy of an American primetime slot. I cannot understand NBC's overall programming strategy.
A cavalier treatment indeed, because Flashpoint is a diamond in the rough that you'd expect to find in a primetime fall or winter TV schedule.
"Depending on the reception, this might cement the whole "Canadians fill the summer strategy." Or maybe it'll start the backlash."
This might be true that The Listener, Rookie Blue or The Bridge "fill the summer". Besides, add to that Death Comes to Town, which will premiere in August on the American cable network IFC. However, let's not generalize and I have some hope regarding the exposure of Canadian TV series stateside. After all, let's remember that Being Erica and Durham County were respectively aired this winter on SoapNet and Ion, two American cable networks. Besides, I remember that Terminal City was aired on Sundance Channel, an American cable network, in March 2008. All in all, Canadian TV networks who want should act more like sharks when they want to sell their products to the USA.
Actually, ION is a broadcast network, albeit more obscure than even MyNetworkTV. It used to be PAX back in the day. ION buys CanCon from time to time - Durham County, The Border, The Guard.
I'd even venture to guess that Durham County is ION's most well-regarded show stateside. Hey, it rated a New York Times review, and not many Canadian shows can claim that.
Lotsa stuff wrong in the comments here.
1) ION is most certainly NOT a broadcast network, at least not in the traditionally understood sense. Nor was PAX. It is, at best, a station group with a common brand I.D. It has less penetration than the CW, which isn't technically a network either.
Station groups owned by medium to large communication companies used to be common in Canada too, before consolidation. What ION is trying to do in the new age of TV is brand itself like a cable channel, while using OTA stations.
2)We're at the stage now that I would wager most Canadian shows with any Stateside broadcast sale get reviews. It is not "rare."
3)Canadian TV networks don't sell to the USA, the production companies do. Acting like studios, but without the clout. And that's part of the problem.
And as far as the "summer strategy" goes, the point is that it's not worked for the CanNets either. Both FP & The Bridge were aired out of simulcast because they were just filler to CBS, but important to CTV. We're still waiting to see a network here that steps up to brand themselves using their own programming.
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