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Promoting Our Own; We Suck At It
Posted 3/4/2013 9:38:00 AM

The inaugural Canadian Screen Awards were handed out last night in Toronto. The Genies and Geminis have been combined into one show now known simply as the Canadian Screen Awards.

And yet again the day after, most of us have no idea these awards were even handed out, let alone do we know who the big winners were or who was even nominated. We’re only moments away from not knowing if certain stars are even Canadian.

It’s long been a source of pride for us when a Canadian made it big in the US. But at the same time, we ignore our own stars working on our own soil. It’s been a long running nationwide inside joke.

And it’s kind of sad. One Toronto television morning show had an American television star on their show today to promote a show that has already aired for two seasons in the US and will finally debut in Canada this week. But there were no interviews with any of the winners from last night’s Canadian Screen Awards.

Are our priorities screwed up or what?
Posted By: John Oakley  

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  1. Douglas Ford [deleted] posted on 03/04/2013 02:02 PM
    CBC is "screwed up". It's the equivalent of the old Pravda to the Soviet Union.

    CBC needs to be dismantled.
  2. JoanA_0122 posted on 03/04/2013 05:52 PM
    The comment made on this a.m.'s Oakley show by -- who was it, Victor? Jimmy? -- that CBC always cleans up, as they did again last night, says it all in my view.

    The whole event seemed like a big CBC family love fest to me. Bit of a snore.

    That Dragons Den won best realty was no surprise as there was no competition. But I was a little surprised that Gerry Dee won best comedy; maybe it's a taste thing.

    I admire 22 minutes as they have kept their material fresh astride the times and will satirize anything and lampoon anyone.

    But Mercer has long needed new material -- his rants are stuck on hatred-for-harper-- yet he keeps going and going like an imploding fluorescent bunny. And both he and James litter their comedy with the same Heil-Marx-style propaganda week after week and it is truly tiresome and boring.

    The awards focused on the CBC monopoly navel. I'd like an awards program that considers all Canadian artists, not just the same old few. But we don't live in that kind of romantic Communist community, do we?
  3. JoanA_0122 posted on 03/05/2013 03:01 AM
    Best joke of the night, of course, was the wry one that Montreal is Mafia mob-corrupted, as exposed to Justice Charbonneau, but Toronto is not. Ha ha ha.

    Of course, no one at such an awards fest feels safe enough to joke about the mob corruption of the provincial governments that fuel the municipalities or of the federal civil service that does business with the mob that funds the corruption, or to joke about the international organized crime that is waging, and with its corruption of democratic government, currently winning a world war against civilization.

    Pretty funny, though, if anyone had the balls (game balls) to use it as material. Of course, one would need to at least tip one's hat toward the problem of definition in a world where one man's brutal crime is another's just desserts. Still, lots of material in the fact of corruption that is the same all over the world in its dishonest profit.
    1. Douglas Ford [deleted] posted on 03/05/2013 01:55 PM
      @JoanA_0122 I thought that we were going to take over the blog site, Joan.
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