Airport: Below Zero

[Fuzz]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmont...ct-5-1.3789299

So, uh, stumbled on this last night. It's a show that attempts to paint the Edmonton Airport as some desolate hellhole that only insane people would fly in and out of. When I read the show name, I thought I'd be getting something like Ice Pilots. Like the Oilers, there is a lot of failure and disappointment here.

One of the problems with shows like this is they run 3 or 4 story lines, jump between them every minute, and when they get back to each one, they summarize what happened in the previous one minute clip. Like the viewer is so stupid they can't remember what just happened 5 minuets ago and need to be reminded a passenger lost their ID. Oh, the suspense.

The other issue is that it played like an advertisement for how good Air Canada customer service agents are. In the course of the show, they solved 2 critical problems for passengers, doing things like waving fees, holding planes, etc and gave another one a free suitcase. Right, like Air Canada has ever given anyone a free anything before. I'm on to you.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmont...ct-5-1.3789299

So, uh, stumbled on this last night. It's a show that attempts to paint the Edmonton Airport as some desolate hellhole that only insane people would fly in and out of. When I read the show name, I thought I'd be getting something like Ice Pilots. Like the Oilers, there is a lot of failure and disappointment here.

One of the problems with shows like this is they run 3 or 4 story lines, jump between them every minute, and when they get back to each one, they summarize what happened in the previous one minute clip. Like the viewer is so stupid they can't remember what just happened 5 minuets ago and need to be reminded a passenger lost their ID. Oh, the suspense.

The other issue is that it played like an advertisement for how good Air Canada customer service agents are. In the course of the show, they solved 2 critical problems for passengers, doing things like waving fees, holding planes, etc and gave another one a free suitcase. Right, like Air Canada has ever given anyone a free anything before. I'm on to you.

And you expected something different from the CBC? I'm surprised they didn't show Westjet employees groping girls in the search line, forcing little kids into dog cages to save dollars and beating grandma and grandpa until heroic Air Canada Employees swooped in to save the day.

[Fuzz]

It's History, not CBC. If it was a CBC show it would be about the convenience store operator and his not funny assistant getting into zany airport adventures.

[Northendzone]

I thought the history channel was slowly in the process of rebranding itself as it seems to feature nothing but shows on blacksmithing and metal working.

alternatively, they could pick up the option on those two truck shows and just call themselves the contrived drama network - maybe one day one of those big rigs will actually breakthrough the ice and the drama will be real for a change.......