Oh, they broadcast plenty of good sitcoms.  They still re-air "Arrested
Development."  Making them, however, is a different story.  There have been
some Canadian productions that are successful, some of which get picked up
for broadcast in the US.  I'm thinking "Little Mosque on the Prairie" for
example.  I also really liked a couple of other productions, including
"Twitch City" and "Made in Canada" (which re-aired in the US as "The
Industry").

What CBC is good at (YMMV) is arts criticism and news reporting,
particularly of things that happen outside Canada's borders. And of printing
what are essentially long-form blog rants from other Canadian arts people,
which is what this "Office" evisceration was.


On 3/8/09, PB <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> I know that the origin of the argument shouldn't affect its validity,
> but I find it especially ironic that an article criticizing an
> acclaimed sitcom appears on cbc.ca. The last (and only) successful
> sitcom broadcast by the CBC was "King of Kensington", which left the
> air 29 years ago. They're not exactly experts in the genre.
>
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> >
>

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