01-31-2008, 09:05 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: up north (by the airport)
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Americans desperate for Canadian tv shows
CBS picks up Canadian drama
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...rtainment/home
If Americans think the television shows they view now are crap, wait until they get a load of the stuff we're sending them.
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01-31-2008, 09:09 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary AB
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Originally Posted by Fuzzy McGillicuddy
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It's a CTV show, which means it has a 99% better chance of not being entirely crappy than a CBC show produced under the same circumstances.
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01-31-2008, 09:13 AM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Calgary...Alberta, Canada
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Send 'em some Beachcombers, Littlest Hobo, and King of Kensington episodes.
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01-31-2008, 09:13 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Originally Posted by Fuzzy McGillicuddy
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After watching an episode of that Caveman show, I don't think US TV can accuse any show of not meeting their standards.
I've always thought Corner Gas was a great show, but with much of the humour so Canadian-centric I'm not sure it would go over well without the background knowledge.
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01-31-2008, 09:14 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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CBC should let them air "The Border", give them a wake up call to what kind of idiots Canadians think they have working at Homeland Security.
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01-31-2008, 09:18 AM
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Retired
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Pacific Ocean
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I watch Corner Gas every night at 9 - I don't know how the ratings do down here but I love the show
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01-31-2008, 09:19 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Originally Posted by mykalberta
CBC should let them air "The Border", give them a wake up call to what kind of idiots Canadians think they have working at Homeland Security.
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Apparently you didn't read the article.
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If the strike drags on, industry watchers predict other conventional broadcasters will try to stock their programming shelves with other Canadian-made shows. Strong contenders are rumoured to include The Listener (a series from Shaftesbury Films about a telepathic young paramedic picked up last December by CTV, and now apparently on NBC's radar) as well as CBC-TV's new drama, The Border (currently being actively pitched at the trade convention for TV executives in Las Vegas this week).
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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01-31-2008, 09:21 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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The best canadian show ever made was the Edison Twins. Can't believe the first time I saw this was in Hong Kong and it was dubbed in chinese. hehe
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01-31-2008, 09:27 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobblehead
I've always thought Corner Gas was a great show, but with much of the humour so Canadian-centric I'm not sure it would go over well without the background knowledge.
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It's already airing on WGN in the States.
I don't know how well it's doing, but I've read a few reviews from American viewers, and it seems to be well received.
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01-31-2008, 09:31 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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I think Corner Gas might play well in wider release in the States. Sell it as Seinfeld in the sticks - the best episodes of Corner Gas fit that description IMO.
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01-31-2008, 09:33 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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I thought Corner Gas was already picked up by some network in the States. I remember someone mentioning that is a thread sometime last year.
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01-31-2008, 09:40 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Apparently you didn't read the article.
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GnM website didnt come up for me.
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01-31-2008, 09:48 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Singapore
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Originally Posted by article
"Whether it's House, where there's a U.K. actor playing the lead - over the last few years I think there's been a great amount of openness," she continued.
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It's a British actor doing an American accent. Yes, the US public sure is expanding its horizons!
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Originally Posted by socalwingfan
I watch Corner Gas every night at 9 - I don't know how the ratings do down here but I love the show
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I have seen ads in Australia for Corner Gas on DVD, I don't think it plays on regular 'cable' here though. I have also seen Trailer Park Boys here on DVD. And on Foxtel I think it is possible to view Kenny vs. Spenny and Degrassi: The Next Generation and who knows what else.
Best Canadian show ever was the Buckshot Show (in particular the episode featuring me), followed closely by Kingo Blackout Bingo hosted by Don Wood.
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01-31-2008, 09:52 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Portland, OR
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I enjoy Corner Gas, my Father in Law from Lethbridge bought me the first season DVD. I havent been watching much on WGN, due to not wanting to get out of sequence.
Being from a small town in northeastern Montana 50 miles below Saskatchewan, its pretty easy for me to "get it." Folks from larger metro areas, I'm not so sure.
There are also tons of childrens and Discovery Channel type programs we inherit from Canada.
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01-31-2008, 09:57 AM
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Norm!
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Originally Posted by Kobatuzzied
The best canadian show ever made was the Edison Twins. Can't believe the first time I saw this was in Hong Kong and it was dubbed in chinese. hehe
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I really wanted to nail the sister, she was intriging, smart and a souless ginger.
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01-31-2008, 09:58 AM
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Square One was Canadian, I believe.
Was Due North Canadian as well? I think that had a following in the States, right?
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01-31-2008, 09:59 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Square One was Canadian, I believe.
Was Due North Canadian as well? I think that had a following in the States, right?
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Well....
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Flashpoint will become the first Canadian series since CTV's Due South in 1994 to air in network prime time in both Canada and the United States.
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__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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01-31-2008, 10:01 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Stern Nation
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Square One was Canadian, I believe.
Was Due North Canadian as well? I think that had a following in the States, right?
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square one was american. pbs, children's television workshop.
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01-31-2008, 10:03 AM
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Posted the 6 millionth post! |
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Well....
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Didn't even read the article haha....Oops.
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01-31-2008, 10:50 AM
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In the Sin Bin
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Square One was great though.
I think Kidstreet and Funhouse were Canadian though... gotta love those late 1980s kids game shows before school 
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