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Degrassi
2001 · TV series · 14 seasons
Created by Yan Moore, Linda Schuyler
The life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School.
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I lived without a TV for a couple of years, around Katrina time -- I experienced that disaster only through radio broadcasts.
Later, I had a Blu-ray player and a combo monitor-TV where I watched OTA broadcasts after the Digital Transition. About 9 years ago, the TV broke, and was deemed unrepairable.
I chose not to replace any TV and I decided I was way better off without Jay Leno in my ear every night, and trash like Degrassi in my eyes every week. For a while, I was. I didn't play discs anymore, either, so my consumption of video content went down, and I was really immersed in interactive computer stuff.
Gradually I found myself to be a YouTube addict, and I've gone all-in with it. Over the years, the stuff they've added has made it a one-stop shop where I never miss TV programming.
At this point, YT has free films (just watch ads or pay Premium), it has on-demand streaming for rent or purchase, just about any major film you can name. They have TV-style packages offered. They are a gateway to other streaming services like Paramount+. There are even silly little minigames now. Mostly, though, I love music videos, and I curate dozens upon dozens of playlists for my tastes and moods. (Beware: user playlists are a legacy feature, and seem to get more inconvenient over time.)
YT has worked hard to become a hub for all things streaming, even as Netflix and competitors splintered into every studio's balkanized app. For someone like me, it's really a relief to just be loyal in one service, and not go chasing content over a dozen paid services or something. Being a low-income cheapskate, I mostly put up with a deluge of ads, because that's how folks get paid these days.
> Everyone here actively despises the local film industry. We do not need to inflict Dutch television on the world. Thats torture.
I don't understand. Do the Dutch hate their own programmes? Why would they bother making shows they don't want to watch?
> if your culture is so great France and Germany you wouldn't need these subsidies.
I'm not sure they need them, just that it helps promote it. These shows might not necessarily be record-smashing-popular, but local film/TV from other countries routinely makes it's way to the US with sizable audiences (despite the US drowning in it's own media). Even childrens shows often have broad appeal. (as just a few examples, see 'Degrassi' from Canada, 'PJ Masks' and 'Miraculous' from France, 'Sarah and Duck' from Britain, 'Octonauts' from Ireland).
Some of those are funded in part from "cultural quotas" (various implementations of similar ideas) such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content . But it doesn't mean they aren't popular or good on their own.
Well, Drake was pretty popular in Canada since he was an actor on the TV show Degrassi.