Worst news ever
Brent Butt will be pulling the plug on Corner Gas next season. The series finale will air sometime in the spring of 2009.
Brent wants the award-winning show to finish on top.
Contrast this with Sarah Polley’s whining on Parliament Hill yesterday. Hunter covers the story here.
I have no idea how government subsidies work in film vs. television but I have a strong suspicion that if it’s a good production, people will watch it and it will become successful.
And guess what, Ms. Polley? Something can be a hit without using sex and violence to attract a large audience.
Jackass!
Now excuse me while I go drown my sorrows with a big plate of chili cheese-dogs.
…But the Conservatives reacted quickly to Polley’s statements, claiming she had a political vendetta against the party.
In the 2004 election campaign, Polley was an active member of the “Stop Harper” campaign, and attached her name to a news release attacking the now prime minister.
“Hard-working Canadians are growing increasingly tired of special interest groups telling them what to do,” Tory MP Pierre Poilievre (Nepean-Carleton) said in a news release. “If famous actors and actresses want to produce materials that are offensive to the majority of Canadians, they can do it on their own dime, not on the backs of Canadian taxpayers.”
Right on.
So now I’m faced with a problem. There were a few other well-known Canadian artists involved in the Stop-Harper campaign. I funded some of them directly by purchasing their CDs and attending their concerts.
It will be easy to deface my Chantel Kreviazuk CDs, but Sarah McLachlan too?
Too bad she’s so misguided.
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