The image is from John A Ryan. It was taken during the making of CBC’s ‘The Border.’ He says: “This was shot outside of Brampton’s vacant Peel Memorial Hospital, [I] was given authorization and access by the hospital security.”

You can see more of his photography here.

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	The Border	Posted at 10:00 am (26 Feb 2009)

The U.S. broadcast rights to the CBC drama ‘The Border’ has been sold to ION Television.

The U.S. deal follows deals in Britain, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, South Korea, Sweden, Estonia, Bulgaria and South Africa.

The border is produced by White Pines Pictures Production in association with the CBC.

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	The Border	Posted at 1:38 pm (25 Feb 2009)

We’re getting there…

The CBC is succeeding in getting Canadians talking about its new primetime shows, suggests a survey conducted late last month by The Canadian Press and Harris-Decima.

As of Jan. 28th, one in three people polled had heard about four of the CBC’s heavily promoted winter shows: “The Border,” “JPod,” “Sophie” and “MVP.” All of the shows launched in early January.

Now the bad news. That hasn’t yet translated into large numbers of Canadians tuning into the shows, however – only 10 per cent of those polled had actually seen “The Border,” about an elite team of Canadian border-security officers. That’s more viewers than the other shows had managed to attract among those surveyed.

Thirty-three per cent of those surveyed felt that the quality of CBC programming is getting better compared to previous years, compared to 21 per cent who felt it was getting worse. But those who had watched one or more of the new programs (19 per cent of respondents) were five times more likely to say the quality was improving (67 per cent)rather than declining (12 per cent).

More younger people than older people had a better opinion about the quality of CBC programming, the survey also found.

More than 1,000 Canadians were interviewed between Jan. 22 and 28th though Harris-Decima’s national online panel, and the results are considered accurate within 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

Canadian Press

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	MVP, Sophie, The Border, jPod	Posted at 10:49 pm (18 Feb 2008)