The CBC have finally found themselves back in their groove, the last few nights providing a flood of previews for up and coming specials and episodes of returning favorites as the network manages to shake off the rust of its recent labour disruption.
Tuesday night saw the return of Domenic Da Vinci, as Da Vinci's inquest morphed into Da Vinci's City Hall. The debut show for the newly named series, returned everyone's favorite coroner back to the screen, however, Da Vinci is no longer looking a dead bodies, instead he travels the corridors of municipal power as the mayor elect of Vancouver. You got the feeling that by the end of the first show, Da Vinci probably figures that the dead bodies had better qualities than the living ones he had to deal with. With BC municipalities about to go to the polls in November, the ins and outs of running a city make one wonder why anyone might want the job. Double dealers out to better their lot at your expense, everybody trying to snare their piece of the pie, it seems to be a code of the jungle in the new world that Da Vinci is trolling these days. The new theme is a pretty good one and Da Vinci's City Hall should more than hold its own on Tuesday nights, keeping its old audience and perhaps adding aspiring politicians to its list of faithful viewers.
Regular favorites like Air Farce, 22 minutes and Just for Laughs will return on Friday night as that night will once again be laugh night at the CBC. Rick Mercer's Report will return on November 8th, as he unleashes another year of satirical fun at our high and mighty.
Speaking of which, the much talked about, but hardly seen documentary Breaking Point will have its debut on the English CBC network on Sunday night. Podunk followers will remember the buzz on this one when it was released on the French network back in September. How close was Canada to falling apart back in 1995? Was there really a plan B to take control of the government away from Jean Chretien, a coup d'etat if you will? Check it out on Sunday as Part One airs and maybe even will find an audience.
It was surely not a great idea to have given the other networks a six week head start in introducing their new programs, but in the multi channel universe it may not be as big a problem as it would in the old days. Today its all about quality, if the shows stand out and create a bit of noise about themselves the audience will find them. Audiences are a more fickle lot these days with the myriad of choices available to them, itchy clicker fingers routinely seek out better programming on a nightly basis.
The CBC can only hope that now that they have fired up the PR machine, that Canadians will surf towards their end of the programming spectrum.
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