canadian tv shows

kateezoo · Post by **kateezoo** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:48 am

hey just wondring what some of ur favourite canadian tv shows are.. .i saw a good one the other day called Rumours. pretty intense check it out... www.yoozur.com/rumours

Key_of_D · Post by **Key_of_D** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:51 am

Degrassi...

Anstapa · Post by **Anstapa** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:03 am

Don Messer's Jubilee, This Hour has Seven Days, Front Page Challenge, Wayne and Shuster...

I always thought that Degrassi was a French Canadien landscaping program

Anstapa

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:10 am

Don Messer is back on? What, do they use a ouija board? What about Friendly Giant?

Hockey Night in Canada

Rick Mercer Report

Sheryl Plouffe on The Weather Network

Daily Planet

Holmes on Homes

djm

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:19 am

They have TV in Canadia? I thought they just shipped it all in from those nice people to the south.

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:28 am

Mostly. Maybe 90%.

Actually, we export our tv producers, directors, technicians, etc. to the US. At one point, over half the staff at CNN was Canadian.

Apparently a lot of Canadian newscasters get hired in the US. I have read that Americans prefer the way we speak English. I'm not completely sure what that means, as there are several distinct accents across Canada, but I'm guessing they mean "the people with the least Canadian accent."

djm

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:45 am

djm wrote:At one point, over half the staff at CNN was Canadian.

Now I know what the C stands for.

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:39 am

jbarter wrote:They have TV in Canadia? I thought they just shipped it all in from those nice people to the south.

A lot of what people take for "American" television (or other entertainment) actually owes to Canadian entertainers:

Pamela Anderson, (born 1967), actress
Paul Anka, (born 1941), musician and actor
Dan Aykroyd, (born 1952), actor/comedian
Raymond Burr, (1917-1993), actor
James Cameron, (born 1954), director
Neve Campbell, (born 1973), actress (Party of Five, Scream trilogy)
John Candy, (1950-1994), actor/comedian
Jim Carrey, (born 1962), actor/comedian
Dave Cash - disc jockey
Kim Catrall, Actor
Tom Cavanagh, (born 1968), Actor
Don Cherry, (born 1934), television personality, former ice hockey head coach, player
Tommy Chong, (born 1938), actor/comedian
Hume Cronyn, (1911-2003), actor
James Doohan, (1920-2005), actor
Dave Foley - actor
Michael J. Fox, (born 1961), actor/comedian
Don Francks, (born 1932), actor/musician
Brendan Fraser, (born 1968), actor/comedian
Matt Frewer, Actor
Nelly Furtado, (born 1978), singer-songwriter
Tom Green, (born 1971), actor/comedian
Graham Greene, (born 1952), actor: Dances with Wolves
Lorne Greene, (1915-1987), actor (Pa Cartwright on Bonanza), TV news anchor
Paul Gross, (born 1959), actor
Monty Hall, (born 1921), game show host
Phil Hartman, (1948-1998), actor, Saturday Night Live
Tricia Helfer, (born 1974), actress, Battlestar Galactica, and model
Jill Hennessy - actress, Law & Order
Natasha Henstridge, (born 1974), actress, Species, and model
Peter Jennings, (born 1938), News anchor
Joshua Jackson, (born 1978), Actor
Margot Kidder, (born 1948), actress - "Superman's Lois Lane"
The Kids in the Hall - comedy troupe
Avril Lavigne, Singer-songwriter
Nicholas Lea, (born 1962), Actor
Norm MacDonald, (born 1963), actor/comedian, Saturday Night Live
Lorne Michaels, (born 1944), originator of Saturday Night Live
Rick Moranis, (born 1954), actor
Alanis Morissette, singer
Carrie-Anne Moss, (born 1967), actor, The Matrix
Mike Myers, (born 1963), actor (Austin Powers), Saturday Night Live
Leslie Nielsen, (born 1926), actor
Christopher Plummer, (born 1927), actor
Ivan Reitman, (born 1946), Director and Producer
William Shatner, (born 1931), actor - Captain Kirk in Star Trek
Martin Short, (born 1950), actor/comedian, Saturday Night Live
Donald Sutherland, (born 1934), actor; father of Kiefer
Kiefer Sutherland, (born 1966), actor (24)
Alex Trebek, (born 1940), game show host

This is a highly truncated list, but on average, in the "American" show biz industry there are probably one Canadian for every two 'Mercans.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:53 am

djm wrote:Mostly. Maybe 90%.

Actually, we export our tv producers, directors, technicians, etc. to the US. At one point, over half the staff at CNN was Canadian.

Apparently a lot of Canadian newscasters get hired in the US. I have read that Americans prefer the way we speak English. I'm not completely sure what that means, as there are several distinct accents across Canada, but I'm guessing they mean "the people with the least Canadian accent."

djm

For this 'Merkin, not the accent(s), which I find...um...quaint (

), but for the apparent command of syntax and vocabulary. US citizens could do worse than emulate the Hosers for New World English at its best, eh?

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:53 am

synecdoche wrote:"Whose Line" just wouldn't be the same without him.

Is that still on? That was fecking brilliant! What a scream!

djm

Anstapa · Post by **Anstapa** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:54 am

And the list grows from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_p ... _Hollywood

List of Canadian film pioneers in Hollywood
Among those Canadians who took part early years of Hollywood were:

Jack Carson, (1910-1963) - actor
Al Christie, (1881-1951) - co-founder of Christie Film Company, director/producer/screenwriter
Charles Christie, (1880-1955) - co-founder of Christie Film Company, builder of Hollywood's first luxury hotel
Berton Churchill, (1876-1940) - actor
Sam De Grasse, (1875-1953) - actor
Joe De Grasse, (1873-1940) - director
Fifi D'Orsay, (1904-1983) - actress
Marie Dressler, (1869-1934) - Academy Award for Best Actress
Douglass Dumbrille, (1889-1974) - movie and television actor
Allan Dwan, (1885-1981) - director, producer, screenwriter
Glenn Ford, (1916-2006) - former Hollywood actor, starred as Clark Kent's father in Superman the movie starring Christopher Reeve
Huntley Gordon, (1887-1956) - actor
Walter Huston (1884-1950) - Academy Award winning actor
Ruby Keeler, (1909 -1993) - dancer, actress
Barbara Kent, (1906 - ) - actress
Florence La Badie, (1888-1917) - actress
Florence Lawrence, (1886-1938) - America's "first movie star"
Del Lord, (1894-1970) - comedy director
Wilfred Lucas, (1871-1940)- director, screenwriter, actor
Henry MacRae, (1876-1944) - director, producer, screenwriter, actor
Raymond Massey, (1896-1983) - actor
Louis B. Mayer, (1885-1957) - co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion Picture Studios
Sidney Olcott, (1873-1949) - director
Jack Pickford, (1896-1933) - actor, Hollywood's first "Bad Boy"
Mary Pickford, (1892-1979) - "America's Sweetheart," Academy Award for Best Actress, co-founder of United Artists
Walter Pidgeon, (1897-1984) - actor
Marie Prevost, (1898-1937) - actress
Mack Sennett, (1880-1960) - director, known as the "King of Comedy"
Athole Shearer, (1900-1985) - actress, wife of Howard Hawks
Douglas Shearer, (1899-1971) - Sound Director/Designer, winner of seven Academy Awards
Norma Shearer, (1902-1983) - Academy Award for Best Actress
Nell Shipman, (1892-1970) - actress, writer, producer
Jay Silverheels, (1912-1980) - actor, "Tonto"
Jack Warner, (1892-1978) - co-founder of Warner Brothers
Joseph Wiseman, (1918- ) actor who portrayed the title character, Doctor Julius No in the first James Bond film, Dr. No
Fay Wray, (1907-2004) - actress, best known for playing in the original King Kong movie

"Around 1910, the East Coast filmmakers began to take advantage of California winters and after Nestor Studios, run by Canadian Al Christie, built the first permanent movie studio in Hollywood"

Anstapa

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:55 am

djm wrote:
synecdoche wrote:"Whose Line" just wouldn't be the same without him.
Is that still on? That was fecking brilliant! What a scream!

djm

Um...never mind what I just said.

AaronMalcomb · Post by **AaronMalcomb** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:21 pm

I was following a series called "Intelligence" but it's on a week night I'm rarely home. It centers around a mover/shaker in Vancouver organized crime and his dealings as an informant for a mover/shaker in the government intelligence network. You get to see both worlds and it's pretty tightly woven. It beats the pants off of Law & Order or any other American crime dramas.

Rick Mercer is hilarious, especially when he drives around the U.S. taking bogus surveys.

Anstapa · Post by **Anstapa** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:58 pm

Royal Canadian Air Farce or Ici Farce Canada (on radio then somewhat on television), Corner Gas, haven't really warmed up to Little Mosque on the Prairie though.

Anstapa

SteveB · Post by **SteveB** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:45 pm

"Hatching, Matching, and Dispatching", a CBC comedy set in outport Newfoundland about a family that operates a combination funeral home, ambulance service and wedding chapel. Dark, a bit twisted, and somewhat off-colour (by American standards), but very funny. Its kind of like "Fawlty Towers" meets “Six Feet Under” with a dash of “Waking Ned Devine”. Not sure if its been renewed for another season, but worth catching on reruns or on DVD when they release it.

Cheers

SteveB