Anthony and I are exhausted just looking at the list of Gemini nominees (there are eleventy billion, as the wise Bill Brioux says) and I'm exasperated by the demonstration, yet again, of how little the Canadian TV industry thinks about their audience. (I was wrong in that nominees who are voting members of the Academy get one free ticket to the gala.)
Shattered's premiere ratings were better than I expected and worse than I hoped. Translation: they were pretty bad.
Before I call Anthony a jerk, we close the show with our favourite 10 Canadian shows, in honour of the Geminis inviting Canadians to vote on their faves of the last 25 years, and Toronto Life compiling their own top 10.
Spoiler alert!
Anthony's Top 10
(in no particular order except the first 2)
- Hockey Night in Canada
- SCTV
- Slings and Arrows
- Kids in the Hall
- King of Kensington
- Hilarious House of Frightenstein
- The Friendly Giant
- Hammy Hamster
- The New Music
- The Red Fisher Show
Diane's Top 10
(in no particular order except the first 1)
- Slings and Arrows
- Intelligence
- The Newsroom
- Durham County
- Twitch City
- Call Me Fitz (yeah, I know, pre-air – call me crazy)
- Anne of Green Gables
- Made in Canada
- Rick Mercer Report
- Some years of This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Your hosts
- Anthony Marco can be found at Dyscultured and lovehatethings, and on Twitter here and here.
- Diane Wild can be found here at TV, eh? and here, and on Twitter here and here.
