Canadian TV, which channels are the best?
Jan 18th 2014, 2:28 pm
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Jan 19th 2014, 4:16 am
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Re: Canadian TV, which channels are the best?
If so, they have just gone to a subscription format (although still £0.00 per month at the moment).
To continue using it, you need to register on their website, which adds your IP address to the customer database.
You don't add any payment card details - that will come soon, but it looks like they are only going to be about £1 per month anyway.
Jan 19th 2014, 5:07 am
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Re: Canadian TV, which channels are the best?
That hasn't been worked out yet but what appears to be happening is that CBC will continue to broadcast it (HNIC being a Canadian institution and all) while Rogers maintains control of the broadcast.
Jan 19th 2014, 5:10 am
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Re: Canadian TV, which channels are the best?
Oh another weird thing about Canadian TV is that you get tax credits for making shows in Canada and even more of a tax credit in certain provinces (such as Ontario and BC) if it has "Canadian content" so as a result you have these weird shows that don't mention where they really are so they can be broadcast in the US but they mention Canadian things in them to get the tax credit.
For example, Rookie Blue and Saving Hope. We all know they're set in Toronto but they don't explicitly say it.
For example, Rookie Blue and Saving Hope. We all know they're set in Toronto but they don't explicitly say it.
Rookie Blue doesn't explicitly name the city but they use real street and location names all the time.
Saving Hope does make reference to the city.
Jan 19th 2014, 12:28 pm
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Re: Canadian TV, which channels are the best?
This is not quite fair, UK unadulterated TV is wonderful and can be beat anything into a cocked hat...however, if you have to attack a whole bloody adventure in order to watch it...is it worth it? I can't help thinking that it depends on what you are doing and how you life pans out? I want to have big televisual adventures, but in between me being stuck (all my own fault) into a contract, and coming home and finding that I just want to turn something on for an hour of 'entertainment without thought'....there are some passable things on. I am now keeping a list of the stations I like here in this 'small bit' as there are all sorts of 'things'on. Best of luck
Jan 19th 2014, 1:24 pm
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Re: Canadian TV, which channels are the best?
Are you using Tunlr.net to facilitate IPlayer?
If so, they have just gone to a subscription format (although still £0.00 per month at the moment).
To continue using it, you need to register on their website, which adds your IP address to the customer database.
You don't add any payment card details - that will come soon, but it looks like they are only going to be about £1 per month anyway.
If so, they have just gone to a subscription format (although still £0.00 per month at the moment).
To continue using it, you need to register on their website, which adds your IP address to the customer database.
You don't add any payment card details - that will come soon, but it looks like they are only going to be about £1 per month anyway.
Jan 19th 2014, 2:44 pm
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Jan 19th 2014, 2:46 pm
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Re: Canadian TV, which channels are the best?
I'm just working my way through Broadchurch. I downloaded it last April. It took about 15 minutes total to do all 8 episodes.
Three or four clicks and each episode begins.
Jan 19th 2014, 3:58 pm
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Re: Canadian TV, which channels are the best?
Pretty much my assessment after a few months. Cancelled my TV service entirely.
Now have Netflix and an online subscription that allows me to watch limitless amounts of ice hockey. Overall cost is 1/5 of previous but manages to be far superior.
Now have Netflix and an online subscription that allows me to watch limitless amounts of ice hockey. Overall cost is 1/5 of previous but manages to be far superior.
Jan 19th 2014, 7:57 pm
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Re: Canadian TV, which channels are the best?
Canadian TV, which channels are the best?
Jan 19th 2014, 9:06 pm
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Re: Canadian TV, which channels are the best?
PBS, (Vicar of Dibley, I think Dawn French is kind of hot), The Food Network, and sometimes CBC and CTV for documentaries. I don't like a lot (most!) of the prime time cop or doctor dramas clogging up the box (The Mentalist is ok). The Zap-2-It Program Guide of course, so I know what's on. If you're clever enough to know what you don't want to watch you're halfway there. I'm not watching Heartland, I'm not watching Fear Factor, I'm not watching Steven and Chris, I'm not watching American Idol, etc to name just a few.
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Jan 20th 2014, 3:30 am
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Jan 20th 2014, 3:32 am
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Re: Canadian TV, which channels are the best?
You could give up TV. Thats what weve done. Strangely we have very few regrets about the whole thing, and are meeting more and more people that have done the same thing.
Jan 20th 2014, 3:37 am
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Re: Canadian TV, which channels are the best?
Even the news is primarily an entertainment medium, there's very little on it worth knowing, do we need to know some weirdo in town shot dead his family or some tourist got their head bashed in. Not really.
Examining the qualitative difference between say, British TV and Canadian TV is to my mind a pointless exercise to determine the difference in something that is pointless to begin with.
Really the main reason why people prefer British TV is because they're from Britain to begin with and got used to their own particular variety of pointless shit.
Jan 20th 2014, 3:45 am
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Re: Canadian TV, which channels are the best?
N'ah, its because traditionally (maybe not recently), its not all completely mindless lowest common denominator shite. British TV is worth its reputation for shows like blackadder and father ted alone, if nothing else,and thats to ignore some of the fabulous BBC documentary shows that are an anathema to the major US networks.
