CBC’s The Goods not returning next fall
The daytime lifestyle series taped its last episode April 9 and will finish its current season May 10CBC confirmed Tuesday that its daytime lifestyle series has been cancelled after two seasons.
Steven Sabados, Jessi Cruickshank, Andrea Bain and Shahir Massoud all host the series, which premiered in the fall of 2016. Reminiscent of Sabados’s previous series with his late spouse and business partner Chris Hyndman, The Goods taped its final episode last week and will play out the season weekdays at 2 p.m. until May 10. Jennifer Dettman, CBC’s executive director of unscripted content, says the public broadcaster will continue to offer lifestyle content via the digital portal CBC Life.
According to data research company Numeris, the current, confirmed season-to-date average among Canadians 2+ is 66,000 viewers nationwide. The Goods drew slightly less its first season, averaging 62,000.
The decision to cancel the series, however, wasn’t just about numbers.
“We are proud of the show,” says Dettman, acknowledging daytime — like all of television — has become a highly competitive market and genre. Taking The Goods off the CBC’s TV schedule, maintains Dettman, “is part of our ongoing redirection of programming budgets from television to digital content.”
Digital, streamed programming a priority
The public broadcaster announced a few seasons ago it would begin focusing its resources on digital, streamed programming “as a strategic priority.”The demise of The Goods follows Rick Mercer’s decision to shut down Rick Mercer Report after 15 seasons. The two were among the remaining regular studio-audience series at CBC’s downtown Toronto broadcast centre. (CBC)
RIP.
Catherine Prebble says
April 18, 2018 at 13:00I am very upset to learn of the cancellation of this show. I thoroughly enjoyed the great camaraderie of the hosts. Their humor and wonderful relationship with the audience was brilliant. The topics were relevant. They were an unique foursome and a very welcome and refreshing change from usual day-time shows. I learned new and delicious recipes. I learned about being more selective and less gullible as a consumer. I learned about developing more positive relationships. The show was up-to-date in current affairs and the hosts discussed them with knowledge and confidence and sincerity. I always felt that I was there with them. They made mistakes but we laughed. They joked with each other and always encouraged the audience to laugh along with them. I looked forward each day to watching “The Goods”. I am very disappointed in your decision. What will you do to fill in the gap? More re-runs? So sad!
Kris Bonomo says
April 22, 2018 at 09:19I was never so disappointed to hear the cancellation of The Goods! I don’t understand how you decided to cancel if it wasn’t just the numbers, what else caused this cancellation. I would like to hear your response, I totally agree 100% with Catherine Prebble comments!
Sam says
May 3, 2018 at 13:08I too am disappointed by this decision as I found the information given on this show helpful and fun. It is also one of the few shows where I could imagine myself in the audience. It appears that the decision was based on CBC’s intent to focus on digital streamed programming. Well, I guess that is a way to go to attract the young always-desirable by networks audience. I just don’t and never will watch television that way and from what I’ve read about programming of this type, I’m not missing anything. I think that there is still a niche for audiences who prefer traditional television as there is for the quality news programmes that CBC “use” to produce. It’s your strength you should play to–CBC as you can’t compete in the area of digitally-streamed programmes with the American budgets and production values.