KanKonKwiz™
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For a fun diversion as we head into a long, hot summer of pogey, “blockbuster” Hollywood movies, and high-UV-index Saturdays pretending to give a shit about Toronto FC, take the Tea Makers’ fun new KanKonKwiz™!
(First in a series!)
Can you spot the distinctive, legal-mandate-conformant CBC Television series hidden in plain sight in this omnibus list of brand-new “Canadian” programming, compiled from press releases from CBC and Canada’s valued private broadcasters?
- Ford Models Supermodel of the World Canada
- Great Canadian Bio-Series
- Ice Pilots NWT
- Canada’s Super Speller
- Pow-wow’s Playhouse
- Innovators of Music
- Leaders of Lieder
- Bloodsport: Opera
- Photo Xplorers
- Star Portraits
- Anna & Kristina’s Style Bag
- The Cupcake Girls
- Of Kiwis and Men
- L’Oréal Paris Presents Spitting L’Image Canada
- Re-Vamped
- The Jane Show
- How to Marry a Millionaire
- Battle of the Blades
- Over the Bolts
- Junk Raiders
- Johnny Knoxville’s Jackass: The Series Canada
- Peak Season
- Crash & Burn
- The Half-Hour News Parody Hour
- Angel on Campus
- Baxter
- The Republic of Doyle
- Meet Phil Fitz
- The Bougons
- The Ron James Show
- Eat Your Heart Out, Adrienne Clarkson
- Stella and Sam
- Justin Time
- Sanctuary
- Traders: The Musical
- Bloodletting
- All Families Are Psychotic
- Homeroom Vampire
- Love Among the Tar Sands
- Fakers
- Harlequin Presents The Kilting Bee: The Colin & Justin Story
- Phantom
- 18 to Life
- The Pillars of the Earth
- The Foundation
- Living in Your Car
- My Other Car Is a Prius
- Straighten Out Your Life with Mark Tewksbury
- My Rona Home
- The Basement Design Department
- Holmes Inspection
- Conviction Kitchen
- Realtor vs. Realtor
Answers!
Well, I see nobody gave a shit.
The new CBC shows are Ron James, Battle of the Blades, Canada’s Super Speller, 18 to Life, and The Republic of Doyle (AKA “Not Charlie Jade”).
The list included a number of ringers I made up. You should have spotted at least one or two, but nobody would have gotten all of them. This theory will remain untested.
- My Other Car Is a Prius
(as surely any Riverdale-semi-owning CBC manager’s wife’s must be) - L’Oréal Paris Presents Spitting L’Image Canada
(après Project Runway Canada avec Iman, le déluge?) - Leaders of Lieder
(ahhhts programming) - Bloodsport: Opera
(Repo: The Genetic Opera half-assedly cloned 1996–CITY-TV/Canadian style) - Straighten Out Your Life with Mark Tewkesbury
(who’s already doing Newsworld segments) - The Bougons
(from Les Bougon, one of those actually funny Radio-Canada series that tightassed, PC Fort Dork pretends doesn’t exist and isn’t worth remaking in English) - The Basement Design Department
(which got dismantled) - Love Among the Tar Sands
(AKA Son of Wild Roses) - How to Marry a Millionaire
(please: a gimme) - Eat Your Heart Out, Adrienne Clarkson
(hommage to Her Excellency the Sashimïst General) - Homeroom Vampire
(YTV-style tween comedy) - Traders: The Musical
(could it work?) - Of Kiwis and Men
(calque of Des kiwis et des hommes) - All Families Are Psychotic
(après jPod, le déluge?) - Harlequin Presents The Kilting Bee: The Colin & Justin Story
(they really are on book covers; plus they’re reputedly hung like horses) - Pow-wow’s Playhouse
(Cowboy Curtis’s aboriginal reconciliation)