Comments on: Intelligence and CBC trading barbs in the media

By: kaycee

kaycee — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:09:06 +0000

Lesley:FYI – "The Guard" is a Global show, not a CBC show!

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:03:35 +0000

Susan: I fervently hope you're wrong on that point. An ideologically-motivated purge of the schedule would not be to my liking at all, however credible it may be right now. I'll admit to a temptation to believe it, particularly looking back at Wonderland and Da Vinci, but I still hope it's not a temptation grounded in fact.

By: Susan Campbell

Susan Campbell — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:21:11 +0000

All preparation for privatizing the CBC, in keeping with the neoCon ideology of the Deciders.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:24:22 +0000

I’m extremely disappointed that Intelligence isn’t being picked up for a third season. If the CBC can fund asinine shows like The Border (YAWN!) and The Guard (essentially a soap opera), surely they can make room for a show that doesn’t cater to the lowest common denominator. I realize we’re not a huge audience and there’s less money to be made, but hey, why can’t the network take some of the profits from the dumb shows that attract the enormous population of idiots, and therefore the advertisers, and use it to fund a show like Intelligence. Once in a blue moon.

(I miss the old CBC, the one that had guts, took risks.)

By: Susan Campbell

Susan Campbell — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:28:38 +0000

Cheers, Nick, for your comment.
Here we have a vicious spiral:
1) dumb-down what is broadcast, so that 2) the stupidified audience doesn’t appreciate what isn’t dumbed-down.
One is forced to subscribe to cable to have something that, if not necessarily worth watching, can serve as background to knitting.

By: Nick Swift

Nick Swift — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:47:08 +0000

Well, there it was on 680 News this morning — CBC has cancelled "Intelligence." What a relief to know my chances of finding complex, powerful and exciting, yet so well and seriously done as to be completely believable, stories and characters has been so drastically reduced, and I can continue to buy the cartons of analgesic cream needed to alleviate the pain I get in my thumb from flitting so rapidly and incessantly through channel after channel of singing, dancing, applauding, jeering, sadistic, obsequious, inane, loud, inarticulate, incoherent, cliched, unoriginal, bright and shiny boneheadedness.

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:38:15 +0000

So long as it’s not on Fox. They’d gut the premise.

HBO might well be a better fit.

By: Carole Bent

Carole Bent — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:18:14 +0000

Just a quick tip for chris haddock…you have a winner with Intellagance, so why not pitch it to the Amercians .. CBC doesn’t know a great tv show even when it is in there laps. Go ahead chris we can all enjoy it then…

By: Eivind Clausen

Eivind Clausen — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:07:18 +0000

I sure hope Intelligence is coming back, it was the only television show that was watching on a regular basis. Please.

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:11:20 +0000

A CBC/HBO co-pro(once the WGA strike’s over and done, I trust)?

Hmmm…

By: chris

chris — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:58:38 +0000

Haddock makes excellent shows. They are not well known in the U.S.(where I live), but then the idea is reused (and promoted) like CSI to make a ton of money. I haven’t seen "Intelligence" yet due to no DVDs, internet distribution, or demand from audiences in my locality.

Check out "The Wire" if you like Haddock’s work. Really good TV always has to be discovered independently of promotion. Only the dumbest shows get widespread promotion. I don’t know why, and can only hope that some direct revenue stream is developed to keep good producers making good shows. Once production wraps the show is done and can’t be brought back.

Good TV comes from networks only by accident. Possible suggestion: if a network doesn’t love the show sell the distribution to someone who does. HBO is almost fresh out of good shows. They have money…

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:42:35 +0000

The majority of the characters of The Border may not be the actual status quo of law enforcement, but we can – and should – dream of how we’d like such people to be. Otherwise, what’s the point?

(Yes, I know who the exceptions are at the moment. We’ll see if and how those exceptions among the characters evolve over time, if all goes as hoped.)

I plan to keep watching.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:10:06 +0000

I just had the displeasure of watching The Border, a show being heavily promoted by the CBC.

The Border is a big yawn as far as I’m concerned. It bears no resemblance to actual reality – along the lines of 24 (a show I cannot stand) – and it lacks the subtlety, nuance, and sophistication of outstanding dramas like Intelligence and The Wire. The jerky camera moves, constant bleeping and staccato noise, is extremely irritating and there isn’t a single likeable or believable character.

If people think CSIS and the feds – and Muslim citizens – are the way they are portrayed on this show, especially after the unconscionable Arar fiasco and the Air India inquiry, I shudder for my country. We must be getting very very stupid.

I will not be watching this show.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:40:02 +0000

Cast and crew disperse at the end of every season for a break. If you check the BC film commission schedule you’ll see the shooting schedule for every show being shot in BC.

By: Kev

Kev — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:47:33 +0000

Its worse than you think – the neocons took over Neilsen in a secret Bilderberg-sponsored coup last year, and now only their loyal minions get boxes. So that means the 3 people in the sample set that were recorded as watching Intelligence were probably taking down the names of the cast and crew for when RX-84 goes into effect!

By: S. Campbell

S. Campbell — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:26:21 +0000

Yes, the CBC has chronically under-promoted ‘Intelligence’. Why? For several reasons, mainly because its ‘anti-Americanism’ goes against the neo-Con flow. Compliance is manufactured on many levels. The mills are being run full-out by those whose interests demand that Canada be further submitted to the U.S. empire.

By: sally bowman

sally bowman — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:56:56 +0000

It’s cancelled! The sets have been dismantled, and the cast & crew have dispersed. The public needs to realize that the word came from Ottawa to RR and RS to bury it. We need some paperwork, an email, something, from someone at the CBC. They don’t want Haddock on the CBC. They don’t want his stories. Follow Campbell-Haddock-Da Vinci-Election-No majority…

From the Blog Administrator: For the record, we checked with the CBC’s spokesperson and he told us that there has not yet been a decision on Intelligence. A decision is expected in March.

By: Scott Leslie

Scott Leslie — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:57:12 +0000

Unlike some other commenters here, I am not a huge fan of a lot of CBC programming, but Intelligence is one of the main reasons I do tune in. To be fair to the CBC, getting an audience for an episodic drama like Intelligence, especially one with as deep and intricate plot as this is not necessarily a simple thing. Intelligence is not the only show that suffers this issue, lots of the HBO dramas (think Deadwood) have similar challenges. But all of that said, it’s hard to believe that the CBC is truly backing this show as well as they could given what a strong property it is. Why haven’t I seen more pieces in different media (and on other CBC shows) trumpeting sales in 143 foreign markets. It’s too bad. I do hope it will continue on and not suffer the fate of Haddock’s other intelligent shows.

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:07:33 +0000

Sean: I’d love to see Wonderland back on the air with new episodes too. It filled a void in the soul.

Someday…

By: ralf kraptout

ralf kraptout — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:30:22 +0000

Will we ever find out who shot J.R.?

T.V. drama is still as good as it ever was.