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CBS is dancing around the WGA strike by co-producing Canada’s CTV crime drama “Flashpoint,” starring Canadian and longtime SAG member Enrico Colantoni (“Just Shoot Me,” “Veronica Mars”).
It will presumably be written by Canadians will no ties to the Writers Guild of America.
From Variety:
Skein revolves around an urban Strategic Response Unit (SRU) -- essentially a SWAT team. Cops in the unit bust gangs, defuse bombs and rescue hostages.
Read all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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of Little Mosque on the Prairie would have gone first..
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Little Mosque on the Prairie, Corner Gas, Trailer Park Boys. All great shows that could do well in the red, white, and blue.
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Jan 29, 2008 4:18:31 AM CST
there's a reason canada's best writers come to LA and join the W
by the podosphere
And CBS is about to show us.
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And don't think we have a lot of good programming at all. This show I've never even heard of.
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If you want to see good Canadian TV see "Corner Gas" or old repeats of "Due South"
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HBO boght the rights to the boys a few years back, I think they are finally getting that movie released soon as well.
But a crime drama eh?
I think I might know a guy working on the music. -
All our good writers do not live here. They moved to LA and are walking the lines right now. Corner Gas is just pathetically awful and so is all of Due South. Kids in the Hall, SCTV and TPB's are the only really good shows I have ever seen my country make. BTW the Trailer Park Boys movie opened in the USA last Friday. Probably already gone though.
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To avoid WGA guys. It's like watching a chess game. You would think England would be better choice for shows however, don't we rip them off a lot in USA? Office, Three's Co, etc. Hell a USA produced Dr Who would be killer over here.
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WGN (the Superstation!) is already showing it. It's actually funny, but I would guess it's too Canadian for most Americans.
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There's too much heat in the night, you know.
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A regular network could run that, sans the potty language.
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With Kristin Kreuk and Grace Park as a lovely lesbian - nice!
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Actually, I've been enjoying some of the new Canadian programs. jPod, whose pilot was bad, is growing on me. The Border could be so much better. And I hope they bring back Intelligence for a third year. A drama where the weed king is not a 2-dimensional bad guy (played brilliantly by Ian Tracy) and the government is smart enough to know that taking out the king leads to a vacuum they don't want to deal with. Fox is already in talks to bring it stateside where they will either screw it up or prematurely cancel it. I like Corner Gas, it's a sweet show that is funny but does not offend anyone. I can actually recommend a show to my conservative mother-in-law that I like too.
BTW, Enrico Colantoni also has a scifi show coming to Canadian pay TV called "Zos". I think I've liked him in most things he has done. -
really. it's good! ed brubaker called it secretly the best show on tv, on par with the wire. i kid you not.
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They bring back some classic shows for a "retro" night or something. NBC could do the cosby show, cheers, night court, and LA Law or something. People might watch. I would.
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Jan 29, 2008 8:17:03 AM CST
Oooh... I feel the Night Heat... I feel your heart beat..
by kazamasmokers
Something ain't right... too much heat in the night, ooh yeahhhh..
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It would be a nice fit for them.
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Or so the rumblings from my striking friends would have me believe...
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Ha! I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who remembered the wonder that was Night Heat.
They should bring back Nick Knight...oh wait...
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"The kids" tell me that E-mail attachments are quite the rage these days. Who needs the WGA?
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I've always wanted to know how bad those shows are.
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Must be it's even handedness to race and poor outlook on US officialdom
Much like Regenesis in that respect. -
Most people wouldn't enjoy Slings. It's too smart and tells an actual story.
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They should import Spooks and Jekyll from England, as well.
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No one mentioned Regenesis yet. Yes it is in syndication. Still an excellent show.
Like a sciencey X-Files. And the science scares the shit out of you.
Recently there was a story about geobacters being considered as an energy source. Last season, or the one before, Regenesis did a Geobacter story. Much darker though. -
Sundance ran the first season.
Shameless is far better than any american equivalent could be. But I'm sure we would find a way to fuck it up. -
but I have seen Sophie and it is very funny. Nice thing about Canadian comedies - no laugh track. But the best show on the CBC is The Rick Mercer Report.
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but I'm sure as hell not proud of our locally produced television. Shit, the Brits would be a better source of locally produced tv.
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We just don't have the industry up here to support growth of talent for the long-term, so we tend to get a few gems in a huge pile of shite. There was a pretty decent drama from the 90's called 'Traders' which I enjoyed. TPB was funny but the joke wore off for me after season 3. The Newsroom was brilliant, as is The Rick Mercer Report. I can't say I found Corner Gas all that funny and I was born in Saskatchewan (where the show was set).
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The Littlest Hobo and House of Frightenstein. Classics.
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coast to coast gold!
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plus had a huge crush on Cara Pifko
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shit, I'M canadian and i didn't know that. 'maybe tomorrow, i'll think of settling down...maybe tomorrow, i'll just keep moving on.' seriously though, little mosque and corner gas suck. and due south ruled. minus the callum keith rennie era. or whatever his name was.
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Jan 29, 2008 11:07:00 AM CST
also, the greatest canadian show of all time was of course....
by mr_macphisto
....mr. dress-up. FACT.
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I hope your wife enjoys her job, because even when the strike ends you're going to have nothing but Big Brother to show. Good luck getting the WGA back to your camp.
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It would make for an interesting pairing. 'Course, they'd have to edit the hell out of TPB. Isn't Da Vinci's inquest also playing down south? That's the show that I'd think would have a good chance of keeping an audience.
It's a shame that Canada's movie and television industry is so weak, creatively speaking. All of our talent heads for LA, and frankly I don't blame 'em. But it sets up a mean little cycle where up and coming actors/writers/directors don't want to stay here because the shows are generally poor, which then means the much needed talent goes elsewhere, then failing to create the shows that would entice younger talent to stay, and on it goes. The shows are getting better, generally, but damned if it isn't a slow process. -
...no damned good maple leaf-shaped scab.
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CBS's best hope for good ratings and solid programming is when "Jericho" comes back on Feb. 12.
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they show it at 1230 on wgn.... I owuld rather watch an hour of carrot top or becker
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Why? ...I don't know.....
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This is beyond (a feeble attempt at) strikebreaking - this is clear evidence of the secret plot to create a single North American state. Anyway, how can CBS afford it? Show up at a currency exchange counter with $1 US and you'll walk away with a pocket full of change. Show up with $2 and you'll still walk away with a pocket full of change, 'cause they'll give you one of those heavy-ass Canadian dollar coins.
Guess I should have watched Trailer Park Boys while it was on BBC America if people are comparing it to KitH and SCTV. I gather it was censored tho...
Speaking of censored, I loved Lexx, which was at least half Canadian. Visited every sci-fi and fantasy sub-genre and blew it up, first by way of parody, then literally with the ship's weapon. I understand people's complaints with the show tho... wasn't for everyone. -
Jan 29, 2008 12:11:38 PM CST
LISTEN UP!!! CHARILE MURPHY IS RIGHT! INTELLIGENCE IS BEST SHOW
by buckys_kick_ass_arm
Ed Brubaker recommended it in his 'Criminal' comic book. I being Canadian flipped on CBC to watch an episode. Sofa King Amazing! Watch an episode and tell me you don't like it. I dare you!
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It's an felony to employ US citizens in Canada (ask the fine folks who got raided by the mounties at CINAR). And Canadians pay money to US productions but only if they will promise not to hire US citizens (Canadians, preferably, but EU folks are okay; in fact, just about anybody's okay, so long as you're not American). Now, CBS, which makes it billions by sucking at the teat of public airwaves -- owned, supposedly, by you and me -- tries to up the anti-american ante one step further. The way things are going, if you want to work in American film or TV, the last thing in the world you'll want to be is an American. You want to know how to destroy America? Forget terrorist acts, forget building up your military. Just offer cold hard cash to the richest among us in exchange for screwing the rest of us.
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a pretty good show, at least so far. The world definitely needs more Chinese gangsters like Cam Fong.
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Hammy Hamster!
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Oh, man. I saw this coming a mile away. Why give in to the overblown, self-centered demands of the American writers' union monopoly on writing, when you can just toss a few bucks to Canada or the U.K. and get some decent scripted shows for less than it would take to get WGA writers back?
Almost half of what I watch is British or Canadian anyway, so this is fine with me. For that matter, why doesn't Showtime just sell Weeds to the BBC and let them relocate Nancy Botwin and her clan to some quaint English suburb? It would fit-- She's gotta move away from Majestic now that the town's burning down-- so why not go to the U.K. and see how selling pot would work over there? The culture shock, the difference in organized crime. . . The way Shane and Andy would react to all the lovely British ladies. . . It would be more fun than waiting around for new episodes. The could move her to Canada, too. Why not? The drug laws in Canada are a bit more tolerant than in the States, so she might find it to be an attractive notion.
They could do this with a lot of shows. Move Heroes to Canada-- It can't hurt at this point! Drop the old CSI shows and make CSI London or CSI Toronto. SciFi shows like Battlestar Galactica could just as easily be made by Canadians or Britons. Comedies are also easy to work out as Canadian or British creations. Hell, dump our version of The Office and just start airing the original-- It's better anyway. Sell the rights to American shows on a limited basis, or work out a share agreement with the CBC/BBC.
There's more than one way to get scripted shows back on the air, and step around this mess. Perhaps a lesson in humility will be learned here, WGA members. You're not special. There are a billion people who could do what you do. You only have leverage because you have the union. If you didn't have the guild, you'd be fired for striking and there would be thousands of people competing for your job (and some of them doing it better).
Yeah, everybody deserves a decent wage for their work. Everybody deserves credit for what they do. However, writers, directors and actors are all treated like they are the only creative contributors to screen projects, and that's simply not true. A Lot of people use their CREATIVE talents to make a movie or show come to life, and to say that the writers are any better or more deserving of residuals than the rest of the creative team is just arrogance at its height.
Personally, I'd love to see the foley artists, costume designers, make up artists, set designers, and other creative contributors to TV/film projects just walk off and tell the writers to "build it themselves" or tell actors, "Let the writers do your makeup." -- But then, they don't have the same sort of Guild power behind them, do they? If the makeup artists walk off and strike, the studios would just hire new makeup artists. If the musicians and foleys go on strike, they would be replaced by others without hesitation.
I don't have a problem with the writers wanting more money-- Greed is the great American passtime, after all. My problem is that their power in this struggle is very disproportionate to what others in the industry could muster, and they're abusing it for their own gain while not giving a shit about the people who are out of work because of them. My problem is that the WGA would NEVER go to bat for residuals for costume designers or makeup artists or any other creative group on a film set. They'd stand up for directors or actors, sure. Others would get snubbed, and HAVE gotten snubbed through this current action.
So bring on the BBC's best! Bring on the Canadian creations! I'll support them because I know that those shows in those countries are where a lot of the disenfranchised creative workers have to go to make a living now that the writers have closed down American productions.
Hey, may the WGA get they want. More power to them! They'd just better not expect that they'll get the same level of respect and civility from other creative workers as they did before they threw their hissy fit over residuals. I can't imagine any scenario where they go back to work with MORE pay, and can look the costume designers in the eye knowing that not only did these people not get any pay bonuses out of their strike (and possibly have suffered a pay cut to afford the residuals for writers), but that they suffered and were unemployed for months because of it.
If I were writing for a TV show, I would not want to face my coworkers after this. I would feel guilty that I'd put them out of work so that I could get a little extra money. I'd feel like a selfish prat.
But then, I don't have a guild boosting my ego, ensuring me of the justice in my cause.
I'm a member of ASCAP, by the way. I don't believe that membership in such a group is an inherently bad thing; I do think that using it to make other people suffer for your profit is just plain selfish, though.
Good luck writers. `Hope you get all that you want and more. It will be fun seeing how the prima donna act flies once you're back to work with people who would never see Internet residuals for *their* creative work even if they stand in the cold for five years. -
I'm not coming back to this talkback, so it's pointless. I won't answer. I've said what I needed to say. I wrote my piece. It's my opinion, and you may disagree, but you disagreeing doesn't affect me in the least.
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You're still an idiot for your opinion, so at least you have THAT. If you're not coming back to this talkback, at least promise us all you'll STAY away this time, hmm?
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and our quality of television is a common joke within this nation. We've had like 10 good shows EVER. I can't even think of 10 but I'm sure someone else can. 'Are You Afraid of the Dark?', 'Corner Gas' and 'Little Mosque' come to mind. But seriously, this is sad. I've never heard of this show, but if it's anything like "The Guard" (a show about coast guards... yeah...) or "Da Kink in My Hair" (about black people with annoying accents running a female beauty parlour) then I feel bad for CBS. Mind you, Enrico is AWESOME, so there's one good thing.
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I heard about some new show that just started that's supposed to be set in Sherlock Holmes' time but have a forensic bent to it that's airing in Canada. Can't remember the name, though. Sounded good.
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Check-out today's blub on IMdB:
"A survey by media-buying powerhouse Carat indicates that since the writers' strike began in November, many TV fans are changing their typical viewing habits and show a greater willingness to watch reruns, check out programs that they have not seen in the past, and watch different 'genres.' The survey concluded that 72 percent of viewers are watching the same amount of primetime TV as they did before the strike; 25 percent are watching less; and 3 percent are watching more. Of those who said they now watch less TV, 54 percent said that they spend more time online instead, but of those, only 6 percent said that they visit websites to watch all or parts of TV shows." -
thinking of is Murdoch Mysteries.
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Jan 29, 2008 3:20:02 PM CST
Don't worry ZeroCorpse, I don't have time for that giant post
by buckys_kick_ass_arm
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I just want to echo claims made here regarding Intelligence's brilliance. The only downside is that after five minutes, you will not be able to watch your American hourlongs ever again. Why some American network doesn't dangle money and women to lure showrunner Chris Haddock (also responsible for DaVinci's Inquest/City Hall, which makes CSI look like the Saturday morning cartoon show that it is) down south is beyond me.
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Node32774 wrote "The rest of our jobs have moved overseas... why stop at writers?"
I get your point, but if you think Canada is "overseas", you need to take a good look at a world map... -
haha... it would be interesting if that got american prime time space
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Thanks to everyone for bringing up You Can't do that on Television, the Littlest Hobo, Mr. Dress-up etc. Man, I want to recognize how cheesy these shows were, but all I got is love in my heart for my childhood faves. Sigh. Did anyone check out Durham County when it was on Movie Central last year? That could be an option for channels like FX or Showtime. I thought it was pretty good... nice and bleak and violent, just the way I like 'em. By the way Don Lockwood... kudos on the name. It took me a sec, but I got it now.
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i just saw someone mention it... is that like douglas coupland inspired jpod or something different?
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Friendly Giant, King of Kensington, Beachcombers, You Can't Do That on Television, Mr. Dressup, DaVinci's Inquest, Street Legal, Four on the Floor with The Frantics (boot to the head!), The Nature of Things with David Suzuki, etc.
In recent years, our comedy tends to be pretty bad except for the satirical stuff that Ken Finkleman, Rick Mercer and Mary Walsh do. Our sitcoms are pretty bland.
I can't say I know one person up here who likes Little Mosque on the Prairie. I gave it a chance. Horrible, horrible show that insults the intelligence of anyone who watches it. -
I saw a screening of this in Vegas. It was called Sniper there and it is truly awful. The music was awful, the pacing bad, and some of the most uninteresting characters you will ever find. Myself, My wife and my friend wish we could have our hour back. I gave it a 3 out 10 in the survey. I guess an opinion of an avid TV watcher doesn't matter much to CBS or they would not be bringing this to the US. Believe me unless they have changed it a whole lot skip it for sure.
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Per Canadian law, 1/2 of CBS's new shows will be in French.
Seriously, the last thing we need is empty headed Canadian check-the-boxes multi-culturalism TV. Where plot means F' all as long as you said the PC thing.
"There is after all no more heartwarming tradition in Canadian popular culture -- well, okay, unpopular culture: it's the CBC, after all -- than the pleasant frisson induced by the routine portrayal of rural Canadians as halfwit rednecks. One would characterize it as Canadophobic were it not for the fact that the CBC's enthusiasm for portraying us as a nation of knuckle-dragging sister-shaggers reinforces our smug conviction that we're the most progressive people on the planet: we celebrate diversity through the ruthless homogeneity of CBC programming; we're so boundlessly tolerant we tolerate an endless parade of dreary sitcoms and dramas about how intolerant we are. In that sense, the relentlessly cardboard stereotypes are a way of flattering the audience." -
Canada bashing aside (and it is fun isn't it? Just like picking on your younger brother.)
When the strike occurred I wondered why the studios just didn't move most of the work overseas. Canada is already a haven for TV shows. Every SciFi show looks like BC in the same way every Western in the 50s/60s looked like SoCal.
Production costs are lower. It starves the WGA out. It means you have a better chance of selling your show internationally.
Really a no brainer for the studios.
The main glitch is SAG and the eventual bifurcation of TV & film (which was decreasing but will now increase). -
Hey, if your bringing shows down here, bring Hockey Night in Canada down.
I need to see Don Cherry's suits in HiDef. -
A remake of "My Mother the Car"?
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"Eh" Like fur shur....
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Soon all TV/Movies will have pre prod, prod, and post prod done in Canada because of union greed. Solidarity means everybodies unemployed...that's ok socialized medicine, public edjumacation, and soup lines to the resuce
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I agree with everything you said wholeheartedly..but I guess as one talkbacker has said, I must be 16 or something for not being to fond of the strike as someone that was negatively impacted by it.
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If I was a screenwriter up here, I'm not sure I'd want to do this. I'm guessing a lot of our writers are supportive of their U.S. counterparts and wouldn't want to take advantage of the situation. Perhaps I'm being too idealistic.
Hey, bash us all you like. It's all in good fun! -
Luckily if a show if filmed here with a mostly Canadian crew it counts...hello Smallville, Supernatural, Reaper, umm Bionic Woman?
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And let's be clear. Half of the old SNL, SCTV and Mike Meyers circa 15-10 years ago notwithstanding, Canadian comedy is garbage these days outside of (as mentioned) Ken Finkleman. This Little Mosque show you might have heard about is atrocious.
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'Nuff said; the talent blew-away NBC's "SNL" shitfests. John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, the whole gang. "The Sammy Maudlin Show", "Mel's Rock Pile", et al--they're all timeless. SNL gets more sour while SCTV's classics get sweeter. Goodnight, William B.--you're the greatest.
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This shit is just awful. It's not funny, it's not compelling, it's rubish! I hope CBS doesn't continue to import Canadian television because this would give the U.S. a really bad impression of what Canadians are like. We are not retarded, just our television programs are. And the real slap in the face is that this shit is government funded.
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Dunno if you could show it on network USA TV, but it is the only Canadian programing that I think is actually really decent. Rest, yeah, not so much. But Trailer Park Boys rules! Way better than alot of mainstream crap from south of the border.
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Doctor Who? Torchwood? Can I actually see Doctor Who without seeing a promo for Mansquito II: Electric Boogaloo?
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Why hasn't this show been picked up in the USA??!!!!!!
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God that was awful.
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Having lived on both sides of the border, Canadians an U.S. programming has both it's gems (to another comment) and pure, 100 per cent shite.
A point of irony: Canadians, under CRTC regs cannot own an American satellite dish, but are required to pay a Canadian company a "rebroadcasting" fee to transmit American programming on Canadian air waves. American dishes are considered "black market" - ironic in that 90 per cent of programming is American content (either shot in Vancouver or original programming). I agree that most Canadian talent eventually move to the U.S. - there are, however, notable exceptions, i.e. David Cronenberg (who still lives in Toronto) -
of Asshat???
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Yep. It's based on Coupland's book and he's credited as an exec producer. It's been uneven in its first few episodes, but it is nice for once to see Alan Thicke playing the smarmy scumbag that he actually is in real life. Also DaVinci's Inquest and Intelligence are fucking great shows from creator Chris Haddock. You can see DaVinci reruns syndicated in a lot of American cities and they run on WGN too.
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I love Douglas Coupland so I am biased on that show but Corner Gas while not perfect is funnier than any US sitcom I have seen in years, Friends sucked in its last 3 years and so many other just blow. Hammy the hamster ruled! The littlest Hobo was great too
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This is not the first time this type of cooporation has happened nor will it be the last. Get a grip.˙
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Its already difficult as hell to get any gigs as an aspiring writer who actually went to film school and honed my craft. Now they're bringing in canadian shows... more food stamps, joy!
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is one of the seven signs of the Apocalypse.
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Jan 30, 2008 1:29:25 AM CST
Someone should buy TRAILER PARK BOYS and...
by stereotypical evil archer
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Jan 30, 2008 1:30:28 AM CST
Someone should buy TRAILER PARK BOYS and...
by stereotypical evil archer
bring that funny shit to the U.S. you know it funny...BUY IT!
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This article is just more anti-WGA strike spin Variety has produced from the beginning (check out thier strike blog - the biased is plain). If there was no strike, this article would have been just another production partnership announcement, if it would have been announced at all. Please attempt not to reveal how naive you are by reading more into it than that.º
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Jan 30, 2008 1:41:58 AM CST
Harry, watch TRAILER PARK BOYS seasons and 1 & 2
by stereotypical evil archer
I would like to know your opinion; for the art itself, not the cultural relevance and differences that weak reviewers would pounce on.
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If you haven't seen the show check it out. It is fantastic. BIG mistake on US Network TV though. The show is mostly low key and the dialog is wonderfully unpolished. Also, a fair bit of swearing (even the "F" word) and some nudity. It would do well on HBO, but network??
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I remember the line well. Although I always thought she said Tessa McGill. Anyway....
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Didn't that air in like '91? And to be fair I was more focused on the "fuck" part of the line......
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Like Rockford, only Canadian!
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...was a live concert by a band called C-Weed. Really great stuff.
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I don't watch Corner Gas but the one episode I watched was decent. From wikipedia...
An episode of the popular Canadian sitcom, Corner Gas, paid tribute to The Littlest Hobo in the episode "The Littlest Yarbo" that first aired in October 2005. In this episode, a German shepherd mysteriously arrives in show's fictional setting of Dog River, Saskatchewan and begins intervening whenever someone gets into trouble. Hank, the town's resident dimwit, is convinced this dog is The Littlest Hobo from TV. The episode ends with "Hobo" locking Brent and Hank in a shed and stealing a steak off a barbecue while Brent yells "This isn't very Hobo like!". The dog then hops onto the back of pick-up truck heading out of town, as "Maybe Tomorrow" plays over the episode's closing credits. -
They'll solve crime using old bicycle tires and duct tape.
because if a woman can't find you handsome, she should at least find you handy.... at preventing crime.
Now if you'll excuse me, I hear the possum call, so its time for the lodge meeting. Take care, eh? -
Red Green is "Canadian Hee Haw".
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Seriously, was I the only one to catch that? It was pretty good, and would translate well. Also RichieRich, that was one Corner Gas that made me laugh my ass off. Especially liked how Hank kept putting himself in dangerous situations to try to get the littlest Hobo to rescue him.
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It's true we haven't produced a lot of great television but that has more to do with the fact that we don't produce as much as the americans. If you take the ratio of good shows to bad shows we are probably the same as the U.S. quality wise. Oh and Nalapou, those annoying accents are Caribean you dumb racist knob.
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Fuck,Kevin Smith watched it AND guest-starred in several episodes! Totally passed me by. Anyway, I did see Kevin Smith speak once in Toronto, and he related a story (I'm paraphrasing, but I remember the story pretty clearly) about how when he was working at the Quick-Stop in Jersey and every Sunday on PBS they would show Degrassi, and him and Jason Mewes would sit behind the counter, tell people not to steal stuff, and watch it. When Kevin Smith got his Clerks cash and paid off all his debts and so forth, he had some extra scratch so he called up Schoolastic Books (when relating this, the crowd oddly whoo-hooed at that - it is a random reference) and ordered the Complete Degrassi Series on VHS. And while ordering the lady on the other end says, "So that's all the episodes and the movie." And Smith goes, flabergasted, "There's a fuckin' movie?!" So when the series was delivered, he called up Jason Mewes, who ran over in a flash, and they watched the movie. They were so head-fucked by Wheels and the car accident and stuff that they watched it twice. What's the point of all that? I dunno. Cool story. Also Kids In the Hall is great stuff, and Trailer Park Boys would probably do well down south. Everything else... eh. But I am looking forward to the CBC (or CTV, I forget which) mini-series, "Guns", starring Elisha Cuthbert. Yummy!
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I saw a few episodes now and again. But it started around the same time I was finishing High School, so maybe I wasn't its audience.
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...or even Saved By The Bell. Even as a child I could tell that both were shit.
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you mean like The Hills?ba dum dum!!
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then there's no excuse for you to watch this, ya little chump.
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Caught the Cbc movie about the Olympic swimmer Victor Davis in Detroit...that was actually pretty badass...for a Canadian...
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I've never scene Trailer Park Boys but I Know that Alex F'ing Lifeson has done some cameos and music so that makes it cooler than most american TV shows right there.
btw- I honeymooned in Canada, Traveling from The Olympic Peninsula in Washington to Vancouver B.C., then up through the Cascades to the Canadian Rockies, then back down through the continental divide in Glacier National Park in Montana. Breath taking beautiful, miles after mile.
I don’t think most Americans know what exquisite sights there are to see in Canada. It would have been the time of my life if I didn’t have that crazy bitch with me the whole way.
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left of Viva Laughlin. I wish they would. Not because I want to watch, but because I want to see the clips on the Soup. Viva Laughlin was best accompanied by Joel Mchale's commentary. "Why would they cancel this? We need this show!".
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Graet show with a terrific cast, similar to CBS' Moonlight, but more entertaining. It's a pity more people did'nt see this show. It didn't belong on Lifetime, and they buried it.
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Feb 01, 2008 11:26:00 PM CST
Will we have hockey scenes on these Canadian shows, eh?
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