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TVO is also has some nice programming for those in Ontario. Also a non-profit.
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TVO is good. The Tripping the series is great.
It knows exactly who its intended audience is, and it's a pretty fuckin' niche one (x-heads who also want some Canadian history and naturalist edutainment).
CBC Gem has a lot of great Canadian shows like Murdoch Mysteries and Paw Patrol
I highly recommend "One More Time".
Great song
It's an alright service, I just wish they would have used/merged the same login for CBC and Radio-Canada content instead of 2 different sites with 2 different logins.
As for premium, I would also have preferred that they removed the ads in the "live feeds". I'd be fine with it just being a screen with the CBC logo and the text "Ad Break".
At least the pricing (6$ for Gem) seems fair.
It's a great source for free kids shows!
What's the commercial situation? Less than prime now, right?
In my experience, the ads are generally pretty short and usually about 3 per ad break, with ~2 breaks per 20 ish minute show. Been watching Schitt's creek with no issues or complaints seeing as this is free with ads rather than paid with ads.
No experience with longer form shows but I can't imagine it'd be any less convenient. Maybe an extra as break or two or the break would be longer with the same frequency.
So far for me it is shorter than prime per break, but Prime has less frequency as of now.
Okay. So compared to broadcast, for sure, way fewer ads. I'll take it.
I noticed last season’s Nature of Things has a whole episode dedicated to butts. Tina Belcher approves.
North of North is pretty good
I also love Baroness Von Sketch show, but nobody else seems to like it as much. Great Canadian Baking show, Best in Miniature.
Non-canadian, but Grand Designs is good (love the NZ one)
Baroness was good but went on far too long.
There is also a NFB (National Film Board) app that has many films both long and short. From the Logdrivers Waltz to Discordia ( a film featuring Aaron Mate) about Anti-Netenyahu protests at Concordia University
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