The finance structure of most productions is contingent on getting the fund's help. If that falls through, you don't get any of your other funding, either. Yes, there are other ways to close the gap (i.e. Rogers Telefund), but while you're waiting for that money to materialize, your chances of getting your show ready for market in September is next to impossible. My friend Semi Chellas, head writer and executive producer of The Eleventh Hour, said, "No show in the world is expected to deliver in such a short amount of time. It's impossible from a writing perspective, as well as it completely undermines the quality."
Those in the industry are obviously up in arms about this devastating loss of lifeblood from an already dying Canadian culture. But the more imminent problem is that many of us are out of a job.
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I would have figured with all the fuss that Paul Gross and the rest of the Canadians actors made about the cuts that the governemnt would have got off their ass and put some money back into the CTF. I suppose the inevidible public backlash in the fall will change that, however. We'll see.
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