How did Still Life make it to air on CBC?
CBC TELEVISION PRESENTS THE TWO-HOUR CRIME MYSTERY STILL LIFE: A THREE PINES MYSTERY, BASED ON THE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING NOVEL BY LOUISE PENNY The Star listed this in its Sunday “worth watching” television lookahead, and I bit. It looked promising—just the kind of thing the public broadcaster ought to be doing. Big mistake. I’m no TV critic (I leave that ugly chore to John Doyle) but is this really the best the CBC can do? Really? Of course, the CBC didn’t produce this shambling trainwreck of a two-hour pilot, not actually. “PDM Entertainment and Attraction Images (formerly...
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Ranked among Canada’s leading literary journalists, Wade Davies Rowland has written more than a dozen books on subjects ranging from television journalism, organized crime, and international environmental law to his current concerns, which include communications technology, the philosophy of science, and technology and human values. Full author bio.