IN LIVING COLOR RERUNS on Network TV

[genius]

Did CBS use some CTV cop show as part of their night time line up at one time?

That would have been the show Due South, which I believe lasted a couple seaons on CBS in the mid-90s.

 

[louisNatl]

Wasn't The Kids In The Hall a production of the CBC and HBO? That show had a huge US audience and still has a cult following. Also, Trailer Park Boys (CTV) is shown on DirecTV's "The 101" channel. Coronation Street (BBC/CBC) is seen on many PBS affiliates across the US.

Regarding radio, CBC's "As It Happens" is distributed in the US on PRI and heard on several public radio affiliates across the country.

 

[azumanga]

Coronation Street (BBC/CBC) is seen on many PBS affiliates across the US.

First, Corrie is wholly produced in Britain by Granada, the ITV franchise for northern England; it was never produced by the BBC.

Second, Corrie had several attempts to launch in the US, the most-recent was a few years back on the late Trio cable channel. I don;t know of any PBS stations carrying Corrie; maybe you're thinking about the BBC's London counterpart, "Eastenders"?

 

[N_D_Radioguy]

Wasn't The Kids In The Hall a production of the CBC and HBO? That show had a huge US audience and still has a cult following...

"Huge" is way too strong a word.

Not only was it on cable, but a premium at that.

Too often we mstake something that was well-liked by us and a handful of our like-minded friends as "huge."

"Models, Inc." was "huge" when I was in college... but apparently only in my fraternity house.

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Also, no one has mentioned "Da Vinci's Inquest" running on WGN and in U.S. syndication.

 

[azumanga]

Wasn't The Kids In The Hall a production of the CBC and HBO? That show had a huge US audience and still has a cult following...

"Huge" is way too strong a word.

Not only was it on cable, but a premium at that.

One of the motivators behind that was that Canadian broadcast standards are less restrictive than that of the US. (Though on the other hand, they can regulate what channels can be carried on cable there.)

CBS did run episodes of "Kids" sometime in the 1990s during late-night, but they were edited to meet US standards.

 

[N_D_Radioguy]

One of the motivators behind that was that Canadian broadcast standards are less restrictive than that of the US. (Though on the other hand, they can regulate what channels can be carried on cable there.)

CBS did run episodes of "Kids" sometime in the 1990s during late-night, but they were edited to meet US standards.

And I applaud the folks that chose a narrower audience on a premium channel in order to maintain the integrity of the show rather than edit it or water down the content for American OTA television.

My point remains that, by the shear realtity of the numbers, it's incredibly hard for something to be "huge" on a premium channel and, even though "The Sopranos" and "SATC" went on to do it, "Kids in the Hall" wasn't as fortunate.