CSI: New-York declared not an history show
By fred | August 5, 2007
Sometimes people are just stupid. Or ready to go do and say anything trying to get money, regardless. This is what happen with broadcaster Alliance Atlantis Communications as they decided to air CSI: New-York on Canada’s History Television cable channel.
Yes, on an history channel, and as an history channel program - not an unrelated TV show, of course. Obviously if you ask anyone who knows what the show is, his reaction will be laughter. Which is why the Writers Guild of Canada complaint was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, rejecting the “argument” that “CSI: New-York offered History Television viewers “a critically acclaimed look at forensic policing in post-9/11 New York City.””
In a July 25 letter to Alliance Atlantis, the CRTC said that “while an occasional episode may deal with a current or historical event, the series is clearly one that is about forensic investigations, not history or current events.”
Clearly. Because if any show mentioning 9/11 was history channel material, there would be a lot more of dramas on. CSI: NY has nothing to do with 9/11, despite a few comments here and there, I mean Rescue Me is far from being an history program either and it’s a lot more 9/11-related than any CSI show’s ever been.
WGC executive director Maureen Parker applauded the regulatory decision, stating that “the CRTC has restored integrity to the Canadian broadcasting system by making the right decision and requiring AAC to remove CSI: New-York from its History Television schedule.”
Alliance Atlantis has now until January 1 to took it off the air.
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