Or, as he would be more likely to write his name so Google can never find it, D e n i s M c G r a t h. And it isn’t pronounced “denee.”

• See, TV is a software business. Period.
• I feel like the industry is just like the usual suspects chatting to the usual suspects.
• I wrote Charlie Jade really fast and still maintained good quality.
• My favourite thing I wrote – ever – didn’t get picked up.
• Not many people can write thoughtfully about Television, which is different from being a TV critic. But critics must have the space to judge as they see fit.
• Just forget about talking a Canadian TV gatekeeper out of hitting viewers over the head with repetition.
• Writers are much too attached to the precise execution of their ideas.
• Canadian TV might actually get somewhere if we had writers’ rooms like the Americans.
• The room is sacred.
• Canadian TV executives are snobs and a lot of TV writers are frustrated film auteurs. They won’t even talk about the only successful Canadian TV shows, Trailer Park Boys and Corner Gas, because those shows are beneath them.
• See, I’m a TV writer. I love the medium. It means I have a TV sensibility. And I will not apologize for that.