Date:         Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:15:50 -0400
Reply-To:     Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
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From:         Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
Subject:      Re: TV antenna
Comments: To: Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
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My favorite Canadian shows of recent years (both sadly no longer
made) were the Highlander TV Series (partly filmed in Canada, partly
in France) and Forever Knight (filmed in Toronto).



On Oct 3, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Greg Potts wrote:
> 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