Righteous Ragin: A Daegan Digression

I HAVE ACTUALLY managed to stress myself into a neverending headache that Advil cannot cure. So I must still turtle and do my work.

But Award-winning JPod writer Daegan Fryklind wrote a bit down in the comments on my CBC launch piece that deserves promotion. So, over to her, then:

If people want to rally for Canadian TV, let them eat cake. I know you've pointed to your rules of engagement, and have shaken a finger at the jPod fans -- no, no, don't do it that way, don't alienate the CBC by telling them they're stupid -- of course this makes sense from the outside, but when you're a fan of a cancelled show in full stage 2 kubler-ross anger, some words are bound to get thrown.

Of course it'd be best of all if the fans in the world fought a fair fight (say that five times fast), but the fact that they're fighting at all for Canadian shows is heartening. Bless them for that. Bless any fan who fights to keep their favourite show on the air, who demands to see more. Yes, we never got the numbers we needed. But we got a consistent fanbase who came every Friday night.

We mattered to some people. And that matters to us, and in the end, that should matter to anyone who works in or is a fan of Canadian TV. Heaven help the system if we produce shows that don't raise a cry when they're cancelled.

Yup. Can't disagree with a word of that. And more importantly -- what did that passionate coterie of Jpod fans see in the show? And how can we make more shows that speak to that, while also speaking to a bigger audience? Is that doable? Desirable? Discuss.

Now I've gotta concept meeting and then I have to drill a hole in my head to release the foul humours.