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Artesimo
Germany545 Posts
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Mohdoo
United States15465 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland24345 Posts
Pleasantly surprised here, even if it’s broken clock stuff, or a matter of some folks finding a backbone out of nowhere. | ||
Falling
Canada11320 Posts
On May 06 2025 05:33 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Canada successfully enforced their mild Canadian content laws effectively. It can be done. It is a slow, careful, judicious process. Many politicians on many levels of government from both sides of the aisle were 100% in alignment with enforcing them. If everyone in the USA gets on board it can work. Instead of Sesame Street ... Canada had The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. It was way better than Sesame Street. One problem is that everyone can just pirate everything. With 80" TVs being under $500 any one can have the theatre experience at home. Anyone can just create their own movie nights. Who needs a theatre? That's bunk. The Canadian film industry was fairly anemic until we started becoming a production location for Hollywood. I can remember Sesame Street. I've never heard of Frightenstein until today. When we used to have video stores, American films were not categorized as foreign films. We inhale American culture. Maybe the only place it was truly successful was on the radio due to enforced CanCon percentages. There's been a few hit shows out of CBC like he Red-Green Show, but these days the best Can-Con comes up independent of all that those protective rules (Letterkenny). | ||
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Billyboy
658 Posts
On May 07 2025 01:47 Falling wrote: That's bunk. The Canadian film industry was fairly anemic until we started becoming a production location for Hollywood. I can remember Sesame Street. I've never heard of Frightenstein until today. When we used to have video stores, American films were not categorized as foreign films. We inhale American culture. Maybe the only place it was truly successful was on the radio due to enforced CanCon percentages. There's been a few hit shows out of CBC like he Red-Green Show, but these days the best Can-Con does comes up independent of all that those protective rules (Letterkenny). Me either. I do remember mr dressup, littlest hobo, reboot, some cartoons once I got YTV. And some shows like T and T, cold squad, due south and Da Vinci's inquest and of course SCTV reruns. But the production was always questionable. You know have Schitt's creek along with letterkenny, Totally agree with oyur overall point, just wanted to throw out some more gems because I had also never heard of House of Frightenstein, maybe just not old enough since wiki says it came out 1 season (130 episodes WTF?) in 1971. | ||
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Falling
Canada11320 Posts
But the reality is our production was a small drop in a giant ocean of US content that inundates Canadian culture. | ||
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Billyboy
658 Posts
On May 07 2025 01:59 Falling wrote: Yeah, to be fair there are some other Canadian productions I can recall from my childhood like Fred Penner and Mr Dressup. But the reality is our production was a small drop in a giant ocean of US content that inundates Canadian culture. I don't know that I have met an American that heard of a Canadian show, whereas we know their shows as well as they do. | ||
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