Date:         Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:50:55 -0400
Reply-To:     Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
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From:         Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Subject:      Re: TV antenna
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Hi Tom,

My parents are "mostly retired", and when they travel they sometimes
like to veg out with a movie in the van, particularly in evenings
when the weather is poor.


Canadian TV mostly *IS* American TV, and vice-versa. But even when we
come up with a new idea (ie, Street Legal)  it appears on US TV a
couple years later (as LA Law).

There's some Canadian Content worth watching, but it often gets
buried under the onslaught of imports. The US networks can afford to
spend $1M/episode to make a prime-time show since they've got a 300M-
strong audience to sell it to. But when your audience is only one-
tenth as large it's difficult to produce a product quite as slick,
particularly when the US networks will gladly sell that product to
our bradcasters for 1/10th of what it cost them to create it.

My favorite recent Canadian series is Regenesis. I went to high
school with one of the actors in it, and it's unabashedly filmed in
Toronto:
http://www.regenesistv.com/indexframeset.html

It's had two seasons on top-tier cable, and recently found its way to
on-air broadcast.

Happy Trails,

Greg Potts
1973/74/75/77/79 Westfakia "Bob the Tomato"
www.pottsfamily.ca/westfakia
www.busesofthecorn.com






On 3-Oct-06, at 12:24 PM, bueses wrote:

> Tom B.-is Canadian TV better than US? Hope so!