A scene from time-travel drama Plan B, an English-language remake of a French Radio-Canada series.

Watching the new season of the psychologically perceptive time-travel drama Plan B on CBC Gem this week, I started fantasizing about what I would do if I could go back in time.

As a taxpaying Canadian television viewer, I can tell you what my No. 1 mission would be: Stop CBC from making this show.

Don’t get me wrong: Plan B is the most ambitious homegrown drama CBC has in English at the moment – the only serious, streaming-era serialized storytelling in a lineup saturated with cop shows.

But it is also a remake of a French-language Radio-Canada series also called Plan B that I’ve already watched on its streamer, TOU.TV. The second season told the same story, about a feminist act

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