TORONTO 鈥� Here are the goods on The Goods: it鈥檚 not coming back next fall.
CBC confirmed Tuesday that their daytime lifestyle series has been cancelled after two seasons.
Steven Sabados, Jessi Cruickshank, Andrea Bain and Shahir Massoud all host the series, which premi猫red in the fall of 2016.
Reminiscent of Sabados鈥� previous series with late husband 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鈥檚 executive director, 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 Goods attracted 62,000 viewers on average during its first season.
The decision to cancel the series, however, wasn鈥檛 just about numbers.
鈥淲e are proud of the show,鈥� says Dettman, acknowledging daytime 鈥� like all of television 鈥� has become a highly competitive market and genre.
Taking The Goods off the CBC鈥檚 TV schedule, maintains Dettman, 鈥渋s part of our ongoing redirection of programming budgets from television to digital content.鈥�
The public broadcaster announced a few seasons ago it would begin focusing its resources on digital, streamed programming 鈥渁s a strategic priority.鈥�
The demise of The Goods follows Rick Mercer鈥檚 decision to shut down The Mercer Report after 15 seasons. The two were among the remaining regular studio-audience series at CBC鈥檚 downtown Toronto broadcast centre.
This spring, the major tenant at CBC Toronto is Rogers.
The rival broadcaster鈥檚 between-periods set for Hockey Night in sa国际传媒 occupies one of the bigger soundstages on CBC鈥檚 10th floor.
Aside from annual Air Farce New Year鈥檚 Eve tapings and budding entrepreneurs pitching wares on Dragons鈥� Den, there currently seems to be little use for the purpose-built studios within the walls of CBC鈥檚 broadcast centre.
That鈥檚 more coincidence or optics than agenda, suggests CBC鈥檚 head of publicity Katherine Wolfgang.
She says a soon-to-be-announced new competition show, coming next season, will definitely be taped in Toronto before a studio audience. Other studio-based shows, she says, are in development.
CBC does partner on or produce a number of studio audience shows taped in other parts of sa国际传媒.
This Hour Has 22 Minutes originates in Halifax and Still Standing travels to towns all across sa国际传媒. CBC鈥檚 studio audience specials include comedy festivals in Winnipeg and Halifax as well as Montreal鈥檚 Just for Laughs galas.
CBC also announced in December that a new, ground floor studio is coming to the Toronto broadcast centre, allowing visitors a behind-the-scenes peek at CBC Kids interactive, multi-platform productions.
As for scripted, prime-time programming, CBC has already announced the return of the following programs for next season: the re-versioned Green Gables drama Anne, Baroness von Sketch Show, Burden of Truth, Dragons鈥� Den, Frankie Drake Mysteries, The Great Canadian Baking Show, Kim鈥檚 Convenience, Little Dog, Mr. D (for a seventh and final season), Murdoch Mysteries, Schitt鈥檚 Creek, Still Standing, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Workin鈥� Moms.
More renewals are expected to be announced at the network鈥檚 annual season preview event. That will be held late next month in 鈥� where else? 鈥� a giant soundstage at the Toronto broadcast centre.
