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Is the creative profession being talked about here meaningfully bound by borders? If you created a TV show, for example, all 372 million people that you mention

Is the creative profession being talked about here meaningfully bound by borders? If you created a TV show, for example, all 372 million people that you mention should be potential customers. Many American productions do well in Canada, but scant few Canadian shows have succeeded in the USA.

lotsofpulp 4y ago
Not necessarily borders, but I think being in the same geographic region helps. For example, Canadians interested in making TV shows might find more collaborators and funding in Los Angeles. Technically, especially with the internet, there is no reason a Canadian show made in Canada could not be a hit in both countries. It is just the likelihoods that change.
- otoburb 4y ago
  The slight bias against Canadian shows is that if they have Canadian-specific content (e.g. city, backstories, characters) that are an important part of the story, then the larger American audience will be much less likely to find it interesting. The inverse is not true however -- the article is correct that Canadians are exposed to (almost too) much American content from an early age, leading to the Canadian Radio-Television & Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)[1] to adopt (read: mandate) minimum ratios for Canadian-specific content to be aired.[2] [1] https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/home-accueil.htm https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/home-accueil.htm [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content