CBC-TV announces returning shows for 2008/2009

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  • Anonymous says:

    Sophie?

    Sophie Kinsella (best seller)
    even in Canada tops fiction list
    this week.
    “Sophie’s Choice” (book, film)
    Sophie, countess of Wessex (Edward’s wife)
    Anne-Sophie Mutter (fiddler)
    Sophie Prize (development nobel)

    Joe has prename/forename envy??

  • Anonymous says:

    Joe Clark said : “The actress looks like a Quebecker, with her dark curly hair. Blonde hair is not pure laine.”

    Oh? See Vero (Veronique Cloutier) on the Les Voleur game show, who had 5 programmes at once on SRC.

    See the Lionesses talk show.

    See Virginie, the highschool soap opera.

    And see the original Sophie
    Suzanne Clément profiled by La Petroski http://tinyurl.com/2k3uwx

    (I think that this renewal is about a designated target market (and the need to sell “overseas” to the U.S., who need a minimum number of episodes for ‘syndication’)

  • Allan says:

    I’m certain you wouldn’t be talking like that, Joe, if you were banging Lynn Russell.
    Been thinking of writing Kirsten myself. To ask if she’d be interested in an “interview” over a candle-lit dinner. May I mention that I know you, Joe?

    Loved your observations about Sophie.

  • joeclark says:

    And here is my second comment:

    I seethe with rage over the cancellation of the show I fucking lived for. You know very well what show that was. I wrote Layfield a hardcopy letter telling her she had no business keeping that piece of shit Border on the air just because they like its producer better. Now look what happened.

    I am hardly the kind of person who forgets a slap in the face. I’™ll get them for this.

  • joeclark says:

    OK, why is Sophie instantly repulsive?

    It looks like a CBC show borrowed from Quebec. CBC keeps trying this and it never works. Why does it look like such a show? Because few anglophone women are named Sophie, but lots of francophones are.

    The actress looks like a Quebecker, with her dark curly hair. Blonde hair is not pure laine.

    For a male viewer, there is an added dose of repugnance because Sophie is presented, even in still pictures in transit advertising, as this plucky, go-get-’™er kinda gal who’™s just trying to face the world with a smile. Now imagine how an actual mid-level professional woman must feel when faced with the same advertising. It’™s propaganda. It’™s another way to feel inferior: I don’™t look as good as her, I certainly don’™t look good enough to have my picture in an ad, and I don’™t lead her nice tidy life. (This viewer will not bother to tune in to discover that Sophie is actually barefoot and pregnant. But still facing the world with a smile! ’œOhh, Mr. Graaant!!’)

    While I’™m being honest, I will add that I wouldn’™t want to hang around with any kind of girl (female or gay-male) who loves the show. Not my kind of people.

  • Allan says:

    “… will also return next season, as will the low-rated entry Triple Sensation, which is produced by a friend of the network, or is back as a result of a bet, or something.” says Bill Brioux.

  • Anonymous says:

    Can someone explain why “Triple Sensation” is returning. Wasn’t it a critical and ratings disaster?

  • Allan says:

    It’s times like this I miss Gill Deacon.

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