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North Stars: How ‘Heated Rivalry’ Made Canadian TV Red Hot
For years, Canadian TV networks would produce a few shows because of CRTC regulations and import just about everything else from the U.S.
To hear Crave tell it, those days are over. The streamer's president, Sean Cohan, insists "Heated Rivalry" is just the start of a wave on Canadian content his service plans to sell all over the world.
“We talked about making great global and profitable shows and about elevating the Canadian creative brand, which has been misunderstood or underestimated,” he says. “Bell Media spends a ton domestically on Canada-made content and the question was: Why can’t we make that in a way that exports around the world? And then we went and did it.”
North Stars: How ‘Heated Rivalry’ Made Canadian TV Red Hot
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Crave is probably producing the most CanCon out of all Canadian broadcasters, and doing a great job of it, with new dramas like Yaga coming out, which is already very buzzy since Hudson Williams of Heated Rivalry stars. They also produce a fair amount of comedies, which are fairly decent as well. For a Canadian streaming service they’re doing a good job IMO and I don’t mind paying for it, plus my money goes towards creating jobs in Canada, bonus!
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Wish Crave and Bell success. Hit shows are not easy to have. It seems over the past 20 years or so there is much more cancon internationally than ever before. Even to the point that struggling US networks like CW and years ago ION used cancon extensively to help them stay in business. For whatever reason Canadian scripted shows and reality programming do reasonably well outside of North America. Naturally, our low dollar helps producers make quality programming at a lower cost.
I didn't know that Gerry Dee will be in the second season of Heated Rivalry. He plays a hockey coach for the Toronto team in the series. Often comedians are good at dramatic roles, so it will be interesting to see how the producers use Mr. Dee.