THIS Is The Bandwagon We Jump On?

[seal_clubber]

Well. Thank God Toronto's "ethic diversity" will be properly displayed to the world.*

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I'm so proud.

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*Okay, Canada. Parts of Canada. Toronto, maybe. I'm not sure anyone south fo the border will give a rat's ass.

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P.S.

[seal_clubber]

By the way, I (and likely all other Canuck readers) understand why this happening. It is the terrible spectre of CanCon.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) mandates that all Canadian stations must play a certain percentage of Canadian Content (CanCon), meaning that the content has to be written, produced, presented or otherwise contributed to by Canadians. Because Canadian budgets are much lower than American ones, CanCon typically suffers by comparison (there are happy exceptions), and people end up watching American stations instead (which does not help the Canadian shows get bigger budgets, which makes more people not watch them, etc etc).

This makes the Canadian stations more than a touch desperate to attract viewers.

And thus, many a bandwagon is leaped upon if it is perceived as (a) popular on the American stations, and (b) inexpensive to make. Reality shows are big this way; thus, So You Think You Can Dance Canada, Canadian Idol, and now, Lake Shore. Each show will be sure to mention something Torontonian or Canadian, too ("Mmm, this sure is great steak!" "It ought to be, it's AAA prime ALBERTA beef!").

Probably more information than you needed. Just thought I'd 'splain it up a bit.

Re: P.S.

[seal_clubber]

I think most countries that are not the U.S. have such content rules in place. The fear is that the stations will naturally show the more popular shows, which will be U.S., and thus put Canadian actors/production companies out of work.

It does not help that as soon as any Canadian starts to make it big, they instantly move to the States, following the money (nobody faults them for this; it just doesn't help our own industry much).