TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

You only really remember the good ones.

Not true, I still remember Saved by the Bell quite well.

[Grey Fox]

Canadian TV: 

Half of the American shows are filmed in Vancouver.

Did I say anything about filming location, le Assburger?

You said Canadian TV. Unless you meant our actual tv devices. American TV = Canadian TV.

[Grey Fox]

Well, most Canadian show are bad, but there are some good ones - as i said, I think Murdoch Mysteries is really good.

I can see having all your most talented people move to the US being a real impediment.

I think the main problem is simply that Canada is a comparatively tiny market (and that market is split between English and French), and so produces few shows.

90% of all shows are crap. You only really remember the good ones. That means if you are producing 100 shows, there will be, at best, 10 good, memorable shows; while if you are producing 7 shows, you are lucky to have even one.

The French system is doing very well & produces a lot of quality shows that are atleast as attractive to audience then their american counterparts.

[Valmy]

The French system is doing very well & produces a lot of quality shows that are atleast as attractive to audience then their american counterparts.

Are any of them sit coms about fur trapping?  Because that would be awesome.

[CountDeMoney]

Are any of them sit coms about fur trapping? 

I still remember Saved by the Bell quite well.

[Grey Fox]

The French system is doing very well & produces a lot of quality shows that are atleast as attractive to audience then their american counterparts.

Are any of them sit coms about fur trapping?  Because that would be awesome.

I think we had one in the 70s, yes.

[Valmy]

I think we had one in the 70s, yes.

Is it on Netflix?

[Barrister]

I think the main problem is simply that Canada is a comparatively tiny market (and that market is split between English and French), and so produces few shows.

You're allowed to sell shows to other countries.

And they do - some production companies are quite skilled at producing shows that strip any hint that they were made in Canada from the screen in order to sell them into the US and world market (think Flashpoint, Rookie Blue, Motive).  But because they're designed to look like American shows, it's hard to think of them as "Canadian" tv shows.

[Admiral Yi]

And they do - some production companies are quite skilled at producing shows that strip any hint that they were made in Canada from the screen in order to sell them into the US and world market (think Flashpoint, Rookie Blue, Motive).  But because they're designed to look like American shows, it's hard to think of them as "Canadian" tv shows.

Never heard of any of those, but then again I don't really watch TV.

I don't understand why a Canadian show would have to be Canada-free to sell internationally.

[CountDeMoney]

I don't understand why a Canadian show would have to be Canada-free to sell internationally.

It's very off-putting.  Watching something like Da Vinci's Inquest, you see all these trappings you'd expect from the UK--signage, uniforms, other references--but then the actors all sound American.  Canadian stuff is very unnerving.

[Admiral Yi]

It's very off-putting.  Watching something like Da Vinci's Inquest, you see all these trappings you'd expect from the UK--signage, uniforms, other references--but then the actors all sound American.  Canadian stuff is very unnerving.

Why would stuff like that matter to a German or Spanish audience?

[CountDeMoney]

Why would stuff like that matter to a German or Spanish audience?

Meh, their problem is all the post-production editing of anything Jew-related.

[Barrister]

And they do - some production companies are quite skilled at producing shows that strip any hint that they were made in Canada from the screen in order to sell them into the US and world market (think Flashpoint, Rookie Blue, Motive).  But because they're designed to look like American shows, it's hard to think of them as "Canadian" tv shows.

Never heard of any of those, but then again I don't really watch TV.

I don't understand why a Canadian show would have to be Canada-free to sell internationally.

I don't know why - it's just the way it is.

I can't really think of a single Canadian show that was even a minor hit in the US that made a point of putting the setting in Canada.

[Grey Fox]

I think we had one in the 70s, yes.

Is it on Netflix?

Netflix doesn't have French Canadian shows.

[viper37]

I'm actually enjoying one Canadian show, a lot - Murdoch Mysteries. It is legitimately great. Doesn't take itself too seriously, and has a lot of fun with genuine late 19th century weirdness - yesterday's episode was all about the hollow earth theory. 

do you remember a tv show, you must have seen it when you were a kid...  It was about two orphans in the early 19th century, I think, arriving in Halifax by boat, trying to reach their uncle/family in Montreal, ending up with some Hawkeye-like type of guy, travelling through roads&forests up 'til they presumably reached Montreal (never seen the end, so don't really know )?  What was the title of that?