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WGN to carry Corner Gas

The Red Green Show would be a natural for SPIKE-TV or Comedy Central.
My local PBS station was running it but has stopped recently. I think they have stopped production and they have shown all the new shows. I would think that after nine seasons it would be ready for syndication.
 
The final season of The Red Green Show ended last Spring. It was 15 seasons total, with the last 9 being on CBC. Like I said earlier, the local PBS station in my area is only showing the 2000 and 2004 seasons.

I found the final episode on You Tube. It's split into different sections, but I believe all of it is there. It's at http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=red+green+final+episode&search=Search . There are plenty other Red Green clips there as well: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="red+green+show"&search=Search

I'd agree that the show should be put on cable somewhere.
 
Re: 'Degrassi' in syndication

According to sitcomsonline.com, 'Degrassi' will air in broadcast repeats starting in 2007....
 
Degrassi:TNG (the version popularized on The N, Noggin's nighttime network) is the one entering OTA syndication in the USA. Some stations will run it as a 3 hour "stack" on a weekend day to satisfy E/I requirements, other stations will run it as a (daily?) strip.
 
Johnathan said:
Degrassi:TNG (the version popularized on The N, Noggin's nighttime network) is the one entering OTA syndication in the USA. Some stations will run it as a 3 hour "stack" on a weekend day to satisfy E/I requirements, other stations will run it as a (daily?) strip.
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In Tampa Bay, WMOR runs Degrassi TNG daily, but at 9:30AM, while its target audience (teenagers) are at school.

It seems that when a show has an E/I label, they treat it like the proverbial red-headed stepchild, no matter how popular it is.
 
I would argue that Degrassi: TNG would be one of the few E/I shows that is fresh, relevant to today's teenagers, and (seemingly) gets good ratings, especially considering how few homes The N is in, compared to its competition.
I think it might have even been a good addition to the CW Daytime block, and would allow the CW net to take care of E/I for its affils, between 5x/week of DTNG plus one or two E/I shows on Kids! WB.
 
Johnathan said:
I think it might have even been a good addition to the CW Daytime block, and would allow the CW net to take care of E/I for its affils, between 5x/week of DTNG plus one or two E/I shows on Kids! WB.
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But one of the reasons that E/I shows are demonised by the industry is commercials -- there are restrictions on how much commercials that you can show during an E/I program, as opposed to a regular show. Also, E/I shows must, more or less, be treated with royalty (as in, like a queen) -- in addition to the bug, there must be announcements before the show mentioning that it's an E/I program, and if it's being moved or dropped, an announcement regarding that must also be mentioned.

Some networks like the CW and Fox's 4KidsTV would rather show general stuff, with minimal E/I support (I think both only show one hour of E/I a week), and the CW would apparently rather show warmed-over repeats of sitcoms in the afternoons, leaving its affiliates to fill the remaining two hours of E/I.

Personally, the content of Degrassi is what made the show E/I -- they can show the program as E/I, but end up being marathonned on weekends or shown while the kids are at school on weekdays. Or, they could treat it like a non-E/I show, but it would end up being a missed opportunity for stations to comply. (And I don't know if a station can show it as an E/I and repeat it as a non-E/I.) This is, more or less, a Catch-22 situation for Degrassi.
 
Here in Hartford Degrassi is airing at 7AM Monday-Friday on CW 20 in the middle of a 5 hour infomercial block that airs 4AM-9AM. (Subtract 630AM for the Careerbuilder.COM JobSearch Show. In my book Religious type shows are infomercials too).

Sister station CW 11 in New York City marathons the show on Sundays.

At any rate Degrassi is a better E/I show than what both of these stations were running previously, crappy cartoons from Tribune owned DIC.
 
"Degrassi" as E/I (was Re: WGN to carry Corner Gas)

I've always hated the E/I rules, and I'm a big fan of the Degrassi saga, going back to Degrassi Junior High.

When I found out Degrassi: The Next Generation was labeled as E/I programming, I was appalled. I view that as an insult to a program that is, in many ways, superior to anything else (drama or sitcom) produced for its target audience currently on the air. It should be airing in late afternoons -- give it a double run (like everything else) if you have to. But to bury it on either early mornings of block it on weekends insults the quality of the program. Between this, and the way Noggin splits seasons (eight episodes, then three-month break, then eight more, then another three month break, then the final six), I have disliked how American television has treated this program.

E/I is nothing but an albatross for stations burdened to them by the FCC, so programs with the label air out of necessity. I will admit though, that Degrassi is 100 percent better than Liberty's Kids and whatever else these same stations aired in those time slots last year.
 
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