by Peyter Peyffer

Vestige of 1950s daytime programming and longest-running Canadian show, Betteraves & Betrayals was cancelled four months ago by its original home CBC. After much uncertainty and an ardent fan campaign, Ersweld Included, the studio behind the show, announced earlier today on their official social media accounts that the show had found a new home with science-fiction streamer Bōøbol, the latest player to join the streaming war. Bōøbol later revealed that Maple Defleuvier would take over Artrus Grant, the show's previous head writer who passed away a few months before the show's cancellation by CBC.

Unknown to the mainstream, Defleuvier has used the self-publishing website sexyaliens.ca over the past few years to publish her (self-described) "interspecies smut." Her most recent novel, An Alien 2 Die 4, published last year, became an instant bestseller and spent months on all the bestseller lists. On her social media, Defleuvier promises "favourite soap tropes revisited under today's societal shift... and lots of sexy aliens!"

However, not everyone is thrilled by the news and some of Betteraves & Betrayals' long-time viewers have started organizing to oppose the decision. Ricky Fox, a single dad from Ottawa, said the news "galvanized" him to start an online campaign to fight what he calls "dangerous progressive propaganda." "By making one of the pillars of our culture into a cheap, preposterous vehicle for ideas that directly threatens our way of life, they're showing us who they're truly aligning with," he says in a video posted on the campaign website. "If you're not with the human species, then you're against it—you're against us."

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