Posted by keri-jade at ts3-13t-122.idirect.com on February 22, 2000 at 02:32:16:
In Reply to: why canadian tv networks are > US tv networks posted by rationalize this! on February 21, 2000 at 23:52:50:
You forgot to add that the same twenty people (and/or Terry David Mulligan) get to be in everything until one of them gets exported to the US. Only then does a new guy get called up to the show.
Chris Redman. went to school with him. never liked him much. is in every mcDonald's comercial right now. previously was in every other comerical. sad i say, sad.
: This whole ABC trauma seems to be a lot of unnecessary hassle and guff in my opinion. Where I'm from there is equal opportunity for random giftless people to become media whores within our frosty borders and inevitably get exported to the harsh demesne of American entertainment (once they've developed their talents to the point in which the salary seems hardly enough to support the pending addictions to Tim Horton donuts and Molson Ex. hey this is Canada I'm talking about). Needless to say networks do make the effort to keep anyone who actually does have raw talent happy and in the public eye (yes i've seen even Hockey Night In Canada pre-empted for pilot episodes of sitcoms).
I didn't even know we had a navy until I saw that Timmy comercial.
: CBC (primarily gov't funded network)
really? I thought it was funded just by Newfoundland. That's where all the programs are from now. Except for North of 60 (definition of corporate whore).
I'm just bitter. i have classes in six hours. i wish the subway went north to my house.