CBC TELEVISION | Fred Fuchs to leave CBC for “Camelot”
Looks like there’s a staff shake up at CBC. I wonder whether there will not be as many “synergies” between the movies and the productions done by the director of the Telefilm CBC program. Something beside stuff that Fuchs actually works on like Heartland 2: Take it my Heart, and Little Mosque on the Prarie the musical: Imama Mia (I want credits for that name!).
It’s not going to be like BBC 4′s initiative in 2000 that created films like Trainspotting, I can tell you that much. Audience driven movies on the CBC mean family programming or basically what is already popular. It’s a recipe for success, but it continues to polarize audiences. Either you like the programming that’s there, or you don’ watch it. The film initiative can create great opportunities for Canadian filmmakers, but instead it’s just CBC recycling its television shows. I doubt anything will go theatrical. But hey, look at the success of the SNL movies (I mean popularity).
