Don ThompsonAugust 18, 2009 18:26 EST

Great article! There are a number of us - apparently not enough - who do watch Canadian dramas, and you mentioned most of them: Wojeck, Night Heat, DaVinci, etc. But you did leave out some of my favourites: Cold Squad, Forever Knight, Dead Like Me, etc.

Thanks for the background on why some went by the way.

I think NCIS (another show I watch regularly) and most of the U.S. dramas are more followers of changing times than setters of trends, though. U.S. producers are very quick to copy what works.

AnonymousAugust 19, 2009 17:52 EST

"Dead Like Me" was not a Canadian show. It was Created/Written by Bryan Fuller (Heroes, Pushing Daisies) and was commissioned by Showtime in the US.

Dwight WilliamsAugust 19, 2009 20:15 EST

There are more of us watching than might be willingly admitted to in certain quarters of the country right now. I am also one of them, and while not old enough to have seen Wojeck, the survival and expansion of the homegrown comedy and drama shows matters to me as well.

AlxAugust 21, 2009 20:53 EST

I lost the will to live after The Littlest Hobo stopped being broadcast.

AnonymousAugust 22, 2009 16:57 EST

While I lament shows like Intelligence being off the air, I think that Flashpoint, The Border, etc are fine shows and something Canadians should be proud of. They are set in Canada, about Canadians and the stories are always told from a Canadian perspective.

The fact the Flashpoint gets a million plus viewers a week is something to be celebrated, not dismissed as pandering to an American market. Canadians are watching Canadian shows by Canadians set in Canada. It's not perfect, no. But it's a great start.

AnonymousAugust 26, 2009 08:04 EST

'As ACTRA’s Stephen Waddell told Playback Daily, “Canada is ready for the big time. If you look at the programs being produced now, they’re interesting, they’re innovative, they bring a new perspective.” He might also have mentioned that the US networks buy them for a fraction of what it costs to produce their own programming.'

Also, not mentioned, the life support system of CanCon - should we be proud of this? Whether anything 'Canadian' could survive sans CanCon is the real issue.