I don’t have a lot to say about the Canadian Media Fund or the potential cuts to the CBC’s prime-time programming, because I don’t know enough about it to speak knowledgeably (and a lot of this is about what might happen, rather than will happen or has happened). But someone who can speak knowledgeably about making TV in Canada is Will Dixon, who has a post on the real problem that’s getting lost in a lot of the recent reports: while all these issues remain up in the air, so does the TV business, since you can’t put a TV show into production unless you know what the rules are.
I don’t have a lot to say about the Canadian Media Fund or the potential cuts to the CBC’s prime-time programming, because I don’t know enough about it to speak knowledgeably (and a lot of this is about what might happen, rather than will happen or has happened). But someone who can speak knowledgeably about making TV in Canada is Will Dixon, who has a post on the real problem that’s getting lost in a lot of the recent reports: while all these issues remain up in the air, so does the TV business, since you can’t put a TV show into production unless you know what the rules are.
This would be a much better post if I could end it by coming up with an easy answer to the problem, but I can’t, so I’ll just leave it there for now.