That's right.
The other networks, I will say—because I've worked for all of them, sold to all of them—are driven by simulcasting. I think everyone on this committee knows what that is. For instance, Falcon Beach on Global gets the time slot that's left over, that no American show is put into by the American networks. So if Fox in America decides to move a show from Thursday to Friday, Global would simulcast the show, move the show instantly and bump the Canadian show that's in the time slot.
They didn't do that to us this year; they simply gave us the time slot that no one else wanted. That's difficult for us, because the reason no one wants it is that the audience is all out on Friday night and aren't home watching TV. So in the commercial networks, just because of the economic model and not because they're bad people, a Canadian series doesn't get a fair chance. It doesn't get the chance that Prison Break gets, that comes in from America. It doesn't get simulcast because advertising dollars aren't automatically attached to it.
Only on CBC will we get that chance, but the CBC cannot hide under their desks thinking they have to make inoffensive programming that appeals to millions and millions of people. That's not what Americans do. Americans make Six Feet Under, and they make The Sopranos. The hits are the ones that take chances, and that's why we're talking about that.
In fact, when you ask the CBC, they say they want normal television, just like American but Canadian; they want middle-of-the-road television. That's the answer that producers are getting. I had to adjust my microphone to hear that. I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
I'm sorry; we hit a nerve.