High praise for MVP by… The New Yorker?!
CBC Television ditched the steamy hockey drama MVP after just weeks on the air after critics were lukewarm about the show and fewer viewers embraced it as expected.
But now, living a “second life” on the Amercian cable network Soapnet, the show has produced some unlikely praise. The New Yorker magazine, described by the Toronto Star, is “a high-brow magazine popular among the intellectual set.”
The New Yorker wrote in a recent review: “[The show] “calls to mind such past treasures as Dynasty and
almost every other nighttime soap you can think of…. I’m going to sit right down and send Canada a thank-you note.”
A writer with the Boston Herald agreed: “Not since the glory days of Melrose Place has a soap seemed like such a naughty pleasure.”
Should jPod fans be knocking down the doors of the Harper’s Magazine?
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Shurely you meant Wired. Or Omni. (whoops! Dated myself on that one)
They may want to consider it. Other ex-CBC shows’ fandoms may want to do likewise.
Hey I guess I’m “among the intellectual set.”, since the New Yorker is my favorite magazine.
You never heard of it, Tod?
Well that explains why I couldn’t stand MVP: too “American”…
Figures – CBC gives up on something that definitely had “hit” potential! Stupid title and not enough publicity must’ve killed it here…. at least we’ll still be able to see it… ;o)