Comments on: Wild Roses – Not So Wild

By: jerrie

jerrie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:21:04 +0000

we loved wild roses!!! i work in the service industry so is talk to a lot of people everyday, and we all LOVED it, so please bring it back!!!! we are all ticked off and miss that show. bring it back for 2010.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:48:44 +0000

My family and I really enjoy “Wild Roses” and we were so looking foward to season 2. CBC, please bring back this terrific show! If you have to remove some other show to do so, please do! I hope to see this series back in 2010.

By: winna

winna — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:28:59 +0000

I agree with you Melissa on the budget thing and unfortunately I failed to consider that, among many other things. But to both Melissa and Joyce, yes there are facets of Wild Roses and other Cdn shows that I do enjoy and appreciate for being unique. I’m sorry if I came off as prude. And Sean, my intention was never to insult the Albertan Oil industry and I did mention in my article that that was the primary difference between it and other soap operas.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:55:32 +0000

some of you people are on unreal, this is CBC if you forgot what it stands for look it up. Alberta is a country province, and if you read on cbc’s website it tells you what the show is about and why they made it. Oil is a big concern along with how we treat the land, struggles to survive i enjoy watching a show that has something to do with where i come from. You folks in eastern canada GROW UP. maybe if there was a show about hogs n pigs they will set something up in Toronto. I am a countryboy, and to watch something that as to do with my culture is a big deal. For you folks that think that wild roses and heartland are the same, thats a laugh.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:10:55 +0000

My family and I LOVED this show!!!!!! I really want a season 2 and I’m sure the viewership will grow if it is well advertised. Acting and plot are terrific. It would be a sham to not renew this.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:29:53 +0000

Hi, I’m really surprised at how critical you are about some of the newest CBC shows to come out. I find that with most shows, they need to be given a chance to ‘grow’ into themselves. This has been happening with both Wild Roses and Being Erica. I think that the characters are becoming stronger and I look forward to new developments each week. Maybe I expect less (than you) out of what the television can give to me when I sit down in front of it, but I find that lots of Canadian programming is very interesting and entertaining. Just to give you a taste, I enjoyed jPod just as much as MVP…I also like This Hour, Rick Mercer, Sophie, The Border etc…
ps – if you wanted Canadian programming to come even close to some of the quality (though I think a lot of it is junk) of American shows, the budgets would need to be tripled. The Canadian film and television industry is woefully underfunded, both privately and publicly. We could take a lesson from Québec’s industry!

By: winna

winna — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:48:17 +0000

Decent ratings for what? I see what you’re saying so perhaps I should’ve critisized Canadians and their lack of taste? Please, it’s not like CBC hasn’t made some good choices like with the Red and Green Show, Rick Mercer, The Hour and Jpod (though that’s the viewers fault). It’s CBC’s inability to produce MORE of these shows and yet settle for seen-it-before dramas.

By: John Harden

John Harden — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:00:24 +0000

It’s a miracle that CBC produces shows that get some really decent ratings — in this hypocritical culture of people who scream all the time about the need to support Canadian arts and entertainment, but who tune in to just as crappy American brain-dead fare. Get over it. If you want to make some changes, get into the TV business and make your own wonderful shows happen.

By: winna

winna — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:06:13 +0000

good point jess about the “Canadian flavoured” comment. I never saw it that way before.

By: Jess

Jess — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:31:06 +0000

Wow, I can’t believe you even garnered the patience to watch this. CBC has been producing quite a few “estrogen powered” (quoted from Rick Mercer) shows lately. I honestly thought we had enough of cowboy shows considering they already have one (Heartland). Then again, you never know, this show could be wildly popular in the Prairies or the East Coast…
As for Canadian television shows, I’ve heard that Little Mosque is rather popular and it seems to have an interesting concept. Corner Gas was considered a hit when it came out, although it’s sad that I think they’re on their last season. I think CTV’s “Flashpoint” is Canadian and really popular at the moment as well…
Other than that, I feel that Canadian TV shows generally either play into comedy (Rick Mercer, This Hour has 22 Minutes), Spinoffs from American reality shows (SYTYCD, Idol) or drama with an explicit Canadian setting. Somehow, I think the need to make the programme “Canadian flavoured” in these dramas overshadows the need for a decent plot. And then with all of this, the marketing just doesn’t work because CBC is usually stuck with these crappy dramas and they end up in a vicious cycle where people already associate CBC with bad TV shows…