That's the finding of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, ruling against the producers of CSI: NY who claimed that the show could be considered "a critically-acclaimed look at forensic policing in post-9/11 New York City."
The show has been airing on Canada's History Television channel and the commission says that the producers (Alliance Atlantis) have to take it off the air by January 1 (the producers have to take it off the air? Can't the channel just not show it?)
In other news, Pussycat Dolls Presents is not educational television, and Weeds is not a health and exercise show.
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8-03-2007 @ 3:58PM
Nightfall said...
Does this mean that 24 isn't a documentary about how US fights terrorism?
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8-03-2007 @ 4:15PM
Joey Geraci said...
And Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? isn't a stinging critique of our nation's education system? And The Office isn't a long-running docuseries on trials and tribulations in a typical American office? And Monk isn't a heartbreaking series about the daily challenges of a detective with a smorgasboard of phobias?
Who woulda thunk it?
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8-03-2007 @ 10:20PM
Mathieu Plante said...
They should air the show on the Food Network instead. Because people sometimes eat food on the show, you know.
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8-03-2007 @ 10:28PM
Mathieu Plante said...
By the way, Bob, you reeeally need to read the articles before writing your posts, it makes you look really stupid. Look at the mistakes you made in just 100 words...
""The CRTC has restored integrity to the Canadian broadcasting system by making the right decision and requiring AAC to remove 'CSI: NY' from its History Television schedule," she said. Alliance Atlantis has until January 1 to yank "CSI: NY" from its channel."
Making your statement "Can't the channel just not show it?" useless. Also, about "the producers of CSI: NY who claimed that the show," that was said by Alliance Atlantis, the owner of History Television. The producers of CSI:NY said nothing about the show being historical, I don't think...
"...Alliance Atlantis Communications' argument that "CSI: NY" offered History Television viewers "a critically acclaimed look at forensic policing in post-9/11 New York City.""
Sorry if I sound mean-spirited, but I would just like TV Squad to not write just everything that goes through their mind without just a tiny bit of research. I mean, you get paid, don't you?
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8-03-2007 @ 11:23PM
David said...
Mathieu Plante is my new best friend!
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8-04-2007 @ 4:28AM
uagent said...
Heh, imagine if that would fly here in the 'States. No Ice Road Truckers for the History channel, huh? And what about Shark Week? I mean, considering they mostly replay the same shows every year, I hardly think that qualifies as a Discovery at this point...
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8-04-2007 @ 4:48AM
Brent McKee said...
Strictly speaking the producers of the show are Alliance-Atlantis, a corporate entity which also owns the Canadian version of The History Channel. Alliance-Atlantis show the original "CSI" and "CSI: Miami" on two of their other channels. (On an unrelated note, they also show "JAG" - which they didn't produce - on History Television.)
The CRTC decision is a good one. Now if they can only get Lonestar, which is supposed to be the "Western Channel" (shows like "Paladin" and "The Rifleman" and movies like "Pale Rider") to stop showing movies like "Constantine and "Tango & Cash" on Sundays.
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