Canada, CBC in particular, produces quality content. I feel that these shows and Gem need to be better promoted in Canada, and outside Canada they need to be better promoted as Canadian.
One thing that needs to happen is the Conservative traitors to stop lying about and maligning the CBC. They directly undermine our productions and industry when they spew false and hateful garbage to frenzy up their base. Canada is already a relatively small market, and half the country is against the CBC because they believe the ridiculous lies that it’s a communist state media outlet. I wish there were consequences for slander and libel for defamation from politicians.
outside Canada they need to be better promoted as Canadian.
Interesting - what do you see as the benefit to that? I’m not disagreeing, but I hadn’t really considered it before.
One thing that needs to happen is the Conservative traitors to stop lying about and maligning the CBC.
Big yup.
The benefit is mostly in “Oh, this (show/movie I like) is Canadian? What else is Canadian?”
Let’s take Netflix for a negative example. People know it’s reputation for cancelling shows after the third season, so viewers choose not to get invested in Netflix shows, so they do poorly, and then Netflix cancels them. It’s a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point.
But what if the reputation around the world was “CBC (or Canada in general) produces great shows”? Then more people will look for them and it grows the international audience. It genuinely annoys me when people call great, original Canadian shows, like North of North, a Netflix show. No, it’s quality CBC, Canadian, Inuit content. But if people think North of North is Netflix, how many are expecting it to get cancelled after the third season, and therefore not bothering to get interested in it?
Also, it’s important to counter right-wing populism everywhere. Poilievre and the Conservatives (in its current incarnation) needs to be shut down and not taken seriously in Canada and internationally. He needs to be seen as a joke by foreign nationals, and for people to see right wing populists in their own countries as jokes. The more he calls CBC state media, the more everyone needs to say WTF are you on about, you dingus?
I decided I was going to sail the high C’s for all the streaming shows and use the TV apps with my pihole (ad blocker) for the series on CTV and Global that I am already following. I am more than willing to turn off my pihole for Canadian shows on those channels for distinctly CanCon but with the buy Canadian stuff that happened after Trump did his thing I cancelled all my streaming services and started paying for CBC Gem I just wish they made more shows that lasted the whole season.
