hi all

we are off next week, and just wondering what are the childrens channels in NS, does each company have different ones, or are they the same across the country?

thank you

We have Eastlink and we get tons - Treehouse, PBSKids to name but a few. Your kids will be pleased!!

Won't you all be too busy to sit in front of the goggle box ? It's your first week after all ?

yea i will be to busy, the little one wont

I was looking into exactly the same last night.

We will be moving to Ottawa eventually, and well, im disappointed, we have sky now and and the kids love sky one (Stargate SG1 and atlantis, simpsons) and the disney channel (drake and josh).
Hubby says that the kids will be happy with the programs but they seem awful.
I know BBC Canada has eastenders but its a few years behind ... sigh.
I guess people just dont watch much TV in Canada.

Nope, not much!! You'll get used to the endless repeats of Friends, Seinfeld and the Ellen show .

My kids hardly watch tv now....the Wii comes in handy on rainy days though

I believe that Stargate is on somewhere and the Simpsons is on loads (even in french). The Disney channel does not exist exactly in Canada, but Family Channel has loads of Disney stuff. There is also Teletoon, Teletoon Retro, YTV, BBCKids, TVO (in the mornings), CBC (in the mornings), Discovery Kids, PBS etc...as well the 4 US networks have kids cartoons on Saturday mornings I think. My kids like Discovery Kids and TVO a lot.

BBC Canada is showing Eastenders from Feb 2006 right now.

I'm in Ottawa so that is what we get here. The French channels show a number of cartoons, many of them dubbed into french which is a handy way for kids to improve their french.

The TV is truly dreadful in Canada, would suggest that if this is an issue, stay where you are so the latest eastenders can be enjoyed

If it's a show stopped could you persuade a friend or family member to add a slingbox to their TV set up? You'd need to get a device to transmit from your internet connection to the TV, but then in effect you can watch English TV when you are in Canada. I'm not sure how it actually works, but if you search on slingbox (all forums - I think I read about it on the US boards) you'll find good explanations of how to do it.

kids tv is pretty naff over here I have to say

Bad for adults, but the choice for kids is better. For small kids anyway PBS and Treehouse are the prefered choices....no commercials. Every other chanel we gets for kids the adverts become very annoying very quickly...followed by the kids wanting the crap in the adverts getting very annoying very quickly...

My eldest (5) desolated by PBS no longer showing the Magic Schoolbus. She seems to have developed a taste for edutainment....

Hi all, were also off on a reccie in a couple of weeks. Anyone know for my 7yr old daughter if the Saddle Club (a Canadian/Austrailian production) is shown at all, if so on what station? Thanks Jo

Oh, for heaven's sake! This is North America, land of the couch potato. I'd imagine Canadians watch at least as much TV as Brits. Last time I looked, Stargate in all its various flavours was a US show, as is the Simpsons, as is the entire output of the Disney empire. Strangely, amongst the 500 or so channels that most digital cable providers carry, there are many dedicated to various genres of US programming.

Try Space or Scifi or whatever it's called for Stargate. The Simpsons are absolutely bloody everywhere - you could probably spend the best part of the whole day surfing between one episode and another if you put yoru mind to it. There are many, many kids' channels, from TVO, Treehouse and the like for the very young, through YTV, Discovery Kids, Family Channel, Teletoon and all the others Clynnog listed.

Mainstream primetime programming is not really significantly different from standard satellite fare in the UK - your blockbuster US drama series (Bones, House, 57 varieties of CSI and Law & Order, etc etc), more sitcoms than you can shake a stick at, a couple of channels full of worthy stuff (in Ottawa you'll get TVO which runs a lot of Brit one-offs and miniseries like Midsomer Murders, plus some of Simon Schama's art history and David Starkey's Monarchy etc, plus you'll probably have a US PBS feed). There's even a daily dose of Corrie somewhere, if that floats your boat.

BBC Canada sucks, by the way. There's almost no programming that isn't available without the extra subscription elsewhere. Unless something has changed in teh 18 months since I dropped my subscription as a waste of money.

It is on - though not sure on which channel. Perhaps YTV?

TVO Kids. click for programme page