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Arthur is ending after 25 years
When Arthur premiered on October 7, 1996 – I was a TVOKids Kid. I loved watching the Crawl Space with Patty and Joe. I would go to TVOKids days and enter contests. I just adored everything to do with TVOKids. There are a few shows that I think about when I think about watching TVOKids:…
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Celebrate Pride Month with some of *my* personal favourites
My friend Jenn sent me a text this week with a blog post idea. She wanted me to do a post for Pride month and write a list of all my favourite shows that are created by, staring, or about 2SLGBTQ+ people. Well Jenn this one is for you 🙂 I’m going to put a…
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Simu Liu has lots good reasons to be mad – let’s talk about them.
One of my biggest pet peeves about the Canadian media industry is that we are obsessed with Facebook. The job boards are all on Facebook groups, networking is all on Facebook, I do the majority of my casting work on Facebook… it goes on and on. I honestly don’t know how we would run as…
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Let’s talk about CanCon
I’m a Canadian TV producer and we’re in the middle of a big debate about Bill C-10. It’s time to talk about CanCon. Before we get started, let’s set out the terms here. These are word for word from the CRTC website: CanCon: Content Made by CanadiansThe goal is to ensure that Canadian broadcasting content…