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Quick plug - Serra Tinic from the University of Alberta has a great essay on the history, challenges and politics of adapting content from the UK for the US market over at FlowTV.org: [flowtv.org]
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@josh.green: Interesting, but "Da Vinci's Inquest" didn't air on prime-time CBS US television. It's in syndication, which is a very different market -- either non-network stations, late at night, or on weekend afternoon/evenings.
CBS aired a lot of stuff from Canada (and co-productions with Canada and other countries) as far back as the 1980's, but only on late nights.
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@Evil Tortie's Mom: For those too young to remember, CBS didn't used to have talk shows after the news -- they had reruns or imports of light action-adventure and cop/spy shows, like you see on USA nowadays. Along the lines of "Psych" and "Burn Notice", but not as well written and much, much cheaper.
The Canadian co-productions with Global (like Night Heat and Adderly) were made with Toronto talent, generic back-east-cold-city settings, and American money. When the CBS funding ended, so did those Canadian shows, leading to the Great Vancouver Sci-Fi Boom of the 90's and 00's... and TOPIC!
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