Review: 'Sullivan's Crossing' on the CW is a pleasant import from the makers of 'Virgin River'

With Hollywood scribes back at their keyboards, readying things for actors to say when their own strike ends, possibly by the time you read this, it feels marginally less deplorable that, in order to preserve an appearance of a normal fall season, content purveyors are presenting imported material as if it were something they'd cooked up themselves.

That's not to denigrate the content itself, which is made by people as committed to their work as their American cousins and as capable of greatness (or, for that matter, ordinariness). And when it comes to Canada (home to the invaluable "Schitt's Creek," "Slings and Arrows" and "High School"), only a footstep away from us, their show business has long been entwined, often unrecognizably, with ours.