The Camilla Scott show was Canada's answer to Ricki Lake. She was fun, hip and had a lot of clapping in unison on her show, much like that of the audience of Riki Lake. though she never battled with her weight, she did have tough subjects on her show like-My teenage daughter dresses too sexy and My mother dresses too sexy-well, maybe these were not actually show titles, but the lightheartedness is definitely there. The show tried to tackle important issues some of the time, but the need for an audience was too great so topics turned fluffy and adolescent-which happened to be their target audience. Alas, the show was canceled after one season, and Cananda still has no talk shows to rival our American counter parts. Ho-hum.
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E.N.G.
(1989–1994)
The Great Canadian Prime Time Soap
2 June 2005
E. N. G. was a great Canadian evening soap opera chronicling the lives of the staff at the fictional Channel 10 News room in Toronto. Though it had the usual blend of drama/sex/and a ton of characters (some would come and go with no further notice as to what happened to them) it also added in current political and news worthy events, creating a social commentary, thus elevating this series from the hum-drum world of 'who's sleeping with who' to a much more informative and interesting piece. Very entertaining and very well acted (note that most of the main actors on the show appeared in horror films during the slasher hey-dey-and some would go on to even become famous in the American market-a little Victor Garber anyone?). All and all another show that shows that Canada has more to it than hockey, snow and beer (but not much more;)
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