How Will CanWest Fall Out in 2008?

Canwest unveiled it’s Fall line up for 2008 just after the first rooster cock a doodled on Wednesday morning. Turns out the early start was because the generous mega corporation wanted to treat it’s clients to a delicious breakfast of lukewarm coffee, plain unsweetened yogurt, and what was believed to be BLTs.

The highlights of the launch included appearances by talking car KITT, handyman Mike Holmes, and Rick “the Temp” Caponelli. “The Temp” provided much of the humour for the presentation while interviewing people that were supposedly on Survivor, now entering what seems like its 21^st season. Unfortunately no announcements for a “Survivor: Antarctica” or a “Survivor: Mars” were announced and instead the next season will take place on the typical tropical island setting, possibly Manitoulin.

As part of an agreement with NBC, Canwest has picked up a handful of new programs including poor man’s Jack Nicolson and brat pack bad boy Christian Slater on new show “My Own Worst Enemy”, the revival of Knight Rider (sans Hasselhoff= sans viewers), comedy Kath & Kim, and an updated version Robinson Crusoe.

Also introduced was an Americanized version of British drama Life on Mars, and the Ex List, featuring a woman who needs to re-date all of her ex-boyfriends because some gypsy tells her she will be single forever if she doesn’t find her husband in the next year. We believe a show with a premise like that has the potential to last many, many seasons, depending on the number of men the young lady has slept with. Speaking of promiscuous, 90210 is back so that we can follow the lives of spoiled high school kids from a familiar zip code.

Returning shows include Heroes, Prison Break, House, Bones, Survivor, The Office, The Simpsons, Family Guy and Brothers & Sisters.

All in all a fantastic event, topping previous years when they served alcohol and started at a reasonable hour.

by Dwayne Maillet and Atreyee Dey