If you’re a television person, like me, your curse is to look at everything in life as a possible TV show. Let’s take the authors of Canadian Television Today. Could they be a show? They’re young, they’re gorgeous, they live in Calgary. Excellent start—another great Canadian regional sitcom! Okay, but they’re academics specializing in communication theory. How can we make that work? Let’s give them academic sidelines. One can write about comics and the other about sexuality. We’ll throw in a best friend, say a slacker, girlie professor of feminist studies. We’ll make the dean a small guy from Toronto who insists on wearing cowboy gear. It’s “The Bart and Becky Show”! Major points for regional and we can work in the multi-culti stuff later.
There could be a little problem with the releases. Professor Rebecca Sullivan and Professor Bart Beaty have different ideas about television. For them, “The Bart and Becky Show” would be just another wasted effort in the...
Trina McQueen, a broadcaster and journalist, sits on the boards of the Canadian Opera Company, McClelland and Stewart and the Banff Centre for the Arts. She has served on numerous other cultural boards, including Canadian Stage, the CBC and the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards.
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