Canada had really great stuff on TV in the 90s/2000s

Teletoon had many kino shows.
>Cybersix
>Redwall
>Totally Spies
>What's With Andy?
>Maggie and the Ferocious Beast

No, it fucking didn't. I lived in Ontario for a little over a year back when I was in elementary school. All their TV shows feel like cheap knockoffs of real cartoons.

>Jacob Two-Two
>What's With Andy?
>Braceface
>6Teen
>Kid vs. Cat

And the list goes on. It's all crap. The only one I remember fondly off the top of my head was Yakkity Yak.

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not canadian but goddamn i love this cartoon. everything about it just gets my peepee the big peepee.

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Gay

Reboot was good shit.

>gay
lol ok fag

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Nice try zoomer.

Nice try? I'm right.

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kino

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I remember this weird fantasy action computer cartoon, something based around the legend of Excalibur. Had a female lead. But I can't remember what it was called,and it all feels like a fever dream to me now. Any ideas?

It's called Xcalibur

Spider Riders and B-Daman, anyone?

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>tfw you want to go back to the days when you would wake up early on Saturdays to watch cartoons and see Carlos and Sugar do stupid things

Don't put it in your mouth

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If you're going to cherrypick at least list the stuff that was unwatchable.

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Davinchis inquest is one of the best Crime drama shows I have seen. Really good cast, interesting stories - some more funny like a dude who got killed by a chopstick, others more serious like a homeless indigenous man who died because cops drove him out super far, took his shoes and made him walk back to town and died from exposure.

The spin off kinda sucked though but I have seen worse.

YTV had a few shows like a video game show at the arcade pladium in Toronto. Hosted by Phil from "The zone" there was a comic book show that I didn't care much for but was cool since this was way before comics became mainstream and we're still more fringe.

Breaker high (Ryan gosling), student bodies, radio active, freaky stories, goosebumps (I think that was Canadian?) Reboot, beast wars

Ytv played a lot of kino non Canadian shows like Mission hill, Daria, Downtown, would do random anime movies nights once in a while (or maybe that was teletoon? I saw ninja scroll and a bunch of other MANGA productions in one of the networks)

It's kinda shitty now how cable just loops the days programming. Back in the day they would run all the less popular or adult oriented stuff at night so there was a lot of variety.

Part of why we got so much random shit was this whole Canadian content rule where you have to do I think 30% Canadian content. Government provided (and still does but i think it's quite a bit smaller now ) grants to make Canadian content.

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teletoon was the patrician choice. they played some weird shit late at night as well like Quads!
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>DRAGON BALL ZZZZZ AT EIGHT THIRTYYYYY
I'm genuinely depressed now. Take me back

> Get picked for the show
> Do a bunch of gross shit, risk getting goo'd
> Manage the win
> Would you like bead jewelery or the diy rock candy kit user?

Whoever picked the prize choices was a real dick.

How can you talk about Breaker High and not also mention Tyler Labine. What's wrong with you? And yes, Goosebumps was Canadian. Filmed all over the GTA.

The anime movie nights was more likely Teletoon. I don't recall YTV ever doing that and I know for a fact Ninja Scroll and also Macross Plus were shown on Teletoon late night.

I also miss when TV wasn't just blocks of the same show on repeat, but constantly something new. Or at the very least ran through a season before starting over and only one episode a day.

CRTC mandates still exist too, and they were responsible for some of the best shows, and also that era of cheap flash animation that ruined everything for everyone.

I also remember that arcade show Phil and someone else hosted. Was like a mix of reviews and messing around if I remember it right. I think I still have an episode recorded on VHS back when I recorded 6 hour blocks of random TV as a kid. I swear, if I can find the tapes one day I'll stop being lazy and upload it for these threads.

YTV definitely did anime nights. Specifically I remember watching at midnight on Friday nights for Inu-Yasha and Samurai Jack (not anime, I know, but still) and other stuff I can't recall. They also played Dragonball Z and Gundam Wing in the afternoons.

If I remember right they also had the balls to play some crazy western stuff like The Maxx.

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> Cliff hanger, can barely sleep waiting for tomorrow
> Get all my chores and homework done before
> Ytv reset the series and we are back at episode 1........

Ytv was cruel. I remember being really fucking pissed at Phil because he knew and didn't say anything. They did this multiple times too, each more heart breaking and infuriating than the last.

YTV did a lot of anime, yeah. But they never really did anime movies. Everyone who watched it in the late 90s surely remembers watching the first handful of episodes for DBZ over and over. Got to the end of the dub and started at episode 1 again even if it was in the middle of a battle.

>ywn have DBZ fights in the empty streets while walking home with your friends again

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Ryan gosling is more famous I dunno.

Yeah so I'm thinking of teletoon. Ytv definitely did a few anime nights but
is right it was more tv and I think the one movie they did was the gundam wing movie.

I looked it up it was Gamerz and the cohost was a cutie with colored hair. All the episodes are on YouTube I guess.

I guess the problem these days is they just run reruns now, in the 90s and early 2000s there wasn't much content. I suspect the government might have given bigger grants back then too.

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lewd hours on teletoon were the best

The part that really sucked is you didn't know when the next new episode would be, because /sometimes/ they would cut to the newest episode and continue. I can't remember if that ever happened or was just naive hope.

I always think Canadian TV channels suck now because TV isn't very popular with kids anymore, but it's not like there are additional shows being made for the internet, so that can't be the answer. YTV was decent even like 10 years ago, though not much of that was due to original programming. I thought Family Channel was great from around 2005-2012, but now it really sucks.

Tyler's actually made a name for himself too. Quality movies and shows after Breaker High. They were both the losers on the show, and they seemed to be the only ones who actually made it after the show ended. Worth seeing what he's been up to.

Honestly, there's more content these days than back then. It's just as TV becomes irrelevant they focus on the content they know works like 2 hours of Spongebob, instead of 4 different shows. All the channels ended up specializing more too. Like Teletoon used to have 6 hour blocks for kids, little kids, teens, and adults. Now it's mostly generic and more adult focused trying to mimic Adult Swim. YTV has stuck with the younger demographic and abandoned any late night adult stuff.

>I suspect the government might have given bigger grants back then too.
Pretty sure this is a thing too. Generic grants to do stuff in Canada instead of trying to form a unique culture. Just kind of gave up on that ideal. So instead of a bunch of varying quality shows and avoiding reruns of old shows they just do things in binge blocks.

I just kind of got bored and stopped making sure I was there for the next episode when it reset myself. You can only watch the first half of the Namek saga so many times before you say screw it and wait for it to get past that. No idea why they didn't just run Dragon Ball from the start and wait for the dub to finish a saga before coming back. Would have easily covered their asses.

It was like russian roulette for me as a kid. Those bumpers in between shows freaked me out hard, but the adult stuff had some interesting things going on, plus that chance of lewd always tempting me to stay up.

TV went from being a babysitting tool to just something that exists. Phones and games babysit better. Also trying to mimic the benefits of Netflix. Oddly, actually watching the shows they still have a lot of solid kid-oriented advertising so there must still be a bunch of kids watching. I guess they just don't know what they're missing. Saves the network on licensing multiple shows I guess too?

I mean more kino Canadian content. I guess kims convenience is decent but I can't think of much else. Definitely nothing davinchis inquest tier.

Ytv just had a really good format for how shows we're aired where as the day went on the shows got more adult oriented and the most popular kids shows aired on the zone.

Yeah I have seen him in a lot of stuff he's not bad and did well for himself. Gosling is just mega famous.

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Is Kim's Convenience actually decent? I don't think I've watched any original Canadian shows since Corner Gas ended, but I see that brought up a lot recently.

Cable TV was a way better form of entertainment - watching Netflix or a show uploaded elsewhere seems so lifeless in comparison. Maybe it's because everyone had to watch at the same time, which meant networks had to actually compete to get your attention. I have a 10 year old cousin and aside from watching Treehouse when she was really young, I've never seen her turn the TV on by herself. I don't really have any idea what she watches, but now I am curious, since from the old boomer perspective, it seems like kids today have it worse.

I can't really think of any specific shows, but CBC and CTV have a comfy vibe - they seem to get a decent viewership no matter what shit they put out. I liked the show Jann, despite it not being funny at all and it being based around Jann Arden's hyper-inflated level of fame (she is Z level, but Canadian, so we all have to pretend otherwise).

The attention economy expanded outside of TV. That's the real issue with modern channels. Instead of competing with a handful of networks, now you're competing with hundreds of specialty channels, easily pirated movies, Netflix, video games, mobile crap, "social" media, etc. TV doesn't really know how to deal with it outside of accepting people might get to it later so they make apps you can watch it later with ads. The situation really makes me contemplate about the philosophy of "less is more" a lot. It was so much simpler when I was a kid. Now with so many options my brain just implodes and coasts half the time.

>Jann Arden
I really don't find her interesting. So many more interesting Canadians to focus on.

Reminds me though, I did recently see an episode of some new cop show. Hudson and Rex. Dog detective in Newfoundland. Awkwardly Canadian in a way. Not sure what to think of that. Nationalism says I should like it, but I really don't know if I can blindly like anything Canadian anymore.

I wonder if any of those entertainment options will ever go backwards - for example, Netflix is billions in debt and YouTube apparently still isn't profitable. Don't know if it also qualifies as a similar step backward, but Sony is making fewer games (but better ones). It seems like the current social media platforms can only decline, since the novelty of something like Twitter is bound to ware off (it's lost millions of users in a few years). It'd be nice if the next wave of entertainment was an actual improvement.

I've seen commercials for that show, but any show that is named in the incredibly lazy "Name and Name" format is an automatic turn off.

worst YTV show

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Considering the next wave seems to be everyone making Netflix-esque streaming platforms I doubt we'll see any relevant change for a few years. Not until they realize the market only worked because it wasn't saturated. Unless they manage to live off idiots who sub and forget to cancel and wonder why they're so in debt years later...

Also, about Sony. I think I read they're making a bigger push into TV and movies now with all their game IPs. I really don't know what to think of that company anymore.

As for that show, the one episode I saw was a generic cop show, except the partner being an ex-canine unit dog given a second chance made it more like a Turner and Hooch vibe. They liked to make sure you knew it was taking place in Newfoundland too. Never did bother to watch another episode, but it was a decent mystery with some nice cameos for the hour it was on. Don't blame you for not being interested though, your expectations seem well founded.

I want to disagree because I actually liked this as a kid for how stupid it was, but I can't think of anything that was actually worse.

Is there a good way to play old shows on a CRT tv? Like from a harddrive and create playlists? Is raspberry pi a good option for video on composite?

PS3

this and Truth or Scare

that was some good shit. I'm glad I was able to get these Canadian shows

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Formerly Trips

Don't forget your Beast Wars, yesss

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I always think of doing something like this, but knowing it will feel "fake" because I'm trying to do something that isn't how things are now is painful.

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Yeah but fuck it. The whole idea is to enjoy the shows.

Thanks. Will reproduce in 4:3? You have to flash the hardrive in some weird form?

In the 2000s I grew up watching..

>Freaky Stories
>Yvon of the Yukon
>Being Ian
>Ocean DBZ
>This live action show which had kids working in a radio station something
>Degrassi
>Beast Wars

And many more which escape me

t. non-Canadian who still lives in the commonwealth

as a kid her voice kinda bothered but me now i just wanna FUGG

Did anyone here watch Kids From Room 402 on Teletoon? I know it was on in 2000, but don't remember when it stopped airing.

>This live action show which had kids working in a radio station something
Sounds like Radio Free Rosco.

What part of the Commonwealth are you at now?

I still can't believe that YTV bought this movie and played it uncut late at night, the absolute madmen.

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Pretty sure they got away with it with shit like The Zone and their Treehouse stuff fillers.
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Teletoon started it with the Animatrix

Was Hello Kitty, Maya the Bee then Sailor Moon, Dragonball/Z. Then Gundam Wing and Inuyasha.
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Space also showed scifi shit like 999 and Patablor.

Electric Playground was Canadian.

TVO had lots of weird and old shit too
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>george carlin

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>that opening

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>wanting to be an artist

>this showing up in recommendations
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Dayum. That's some heavy nostalgia.

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Australia

nah leafs it was radio active, show similar to student bodies, which i watched solely for the animated segments.

there was also system crash which was kids running a schools tv broadcast.

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You sure that wasn't Teletoon? They did a lot of weekend late night anime aimed more at adults.

I was obsessed with this as a kid. Saw the first episode and the opening song got stuck in my head, but I had no idea what it was called. Took me years of nostalgia fumbling to finally learn what it was and finish watching it.

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when i was too old to still be watching cartoons I remember getting home from highschool and trying to sneakily watch some yu gi oh because the story was so damn investing in the first season

>internet's so powerful you can now reverse image search the exact piece of media down to the fucking second
>actually had to call into radio stations or write a fucking letter to Much Music to get a song played
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>if you missed an episode you were fucked for weeks or months depending how many times a week the show was on
Sometimes they'd air different episodes during the week. So like Wednesday's would be on ep 13 while Sunday's would be on ep 1.
>everything instantly on demand online

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I was an absolute retard about music until maybe 2007, because I never watched Much and I didn't know where to find out what songs were popular before YouTube. I thought every time an artist put out an album, it would be a greatest hits album except for the new single that I was aware of ("why would anyone buy that?")

It was fun having to actually dig through things and record stuff if you wanted to see/hear something again. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but it really got me more connected to the things I enjoyed because I put effort into finding more about them because I had no other way. The modern era of being able to find out about things so much easier is nice. Not quite as fun to answer a question or relive nostalgia as it used to be though.

There was actually a period in my life where I'd watch the weekly top music videos on Much and write out the list by hand over the show. The shit we do as kids.

the connection thing, sure.

There's so much media and ways to consume it now.

Knowing a few bands and only owning a few records. The scarcity of supply.

Versus today where if you asked the last 5 bands I listened to or songs I enjoyed I couldn't tell you.

Just think now. No one even needs taste or to do 'work' or invest the time into developing taste. With the tons of curators and stuff out there.

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The lack of choice when watching TV (or Much) was nice - it's funny how laziness can somehow get even worse than laying like a slug and staring at the TV for hours, but there being unlimited options can make putting on anything feel like a chore. I've yet to watch Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things or any other big show because it feels like work to get started.

I got Apple Music recently - it's just endless clicking around to try and find a decent album with essentially zero effort. Everything I've tried sucks; a lot of it is from such desensitization, since everyday when refreshing YouTube subscriptions, there are like 10 new songs (most of which I don't try because it's work). All the time I think of quitting the internet because I think it would bring things back to how they felt like 13+ years ago, but I get the feeling that would just be fake as hell and pointless.

True canadian kino coming through.
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pity bump

My nigga