April 12, 2005
Edgemont and TV Around the Globe
I swear I am amazed by the sheer number of television stations out there globally. There have to be tens of thousands of different channels across the globe...99% of them I will never hear of, let alone see any of the programming. This is sort of on the subject of my search to find episodes of the Canadian teen series, EDGEMONT. The first season of that show aired in the US on Fox Family Channel. But that was before ABC bought the channel and it become ABC Family Channel (and went downhill in my opinion), I remember watching The Zack Files (which now airs on Showtime Family Zone thankfully) Edgemont (which airs on CBC in Canada), and other series from outside of the US...The Fearing Mind pops into my head when thinking of unique series that didn't originate from the US (at least I don't think that series was produced here). They also aired the show, SCLUB 7, which was a BBC-1 series, I believe.
Back to the main point in a minute, but speaking of shows I can't get ahold of. I was at work (at a PBS station) a few weekends ago, and on one of the networks I caught an episode of the BBC-3 series SPY, a reality show of sorts where they taught a group of men and women how to be spies and they gave them missions and cover stories, living arrangements, etc to pull them off. It was interesting, but unfortunately I doubt if you can get BBC3 in the US without a C-band dish, and even then, I'm not sure if you could pick it up at all.
Back to Edgemont...So I did a bit of research and it turns out that WAM!, the teen network run by Starz acquired the 57 episodes of the series (that have run so far, a 5th season begins in April in Canada), and they will start airing the series in June. I will definitely be recording these episodes onto DVD.
This also reminds me of a series that used to air on TRIO (a network I don't get the current cable company, but used to pick it up when I had Direct TV) called Madison, I believe it was. I think it was a Canadian show as well about a high school, sort of like Degrassi (the original, not the sexually-obsessed series running now) but not as good. I always wished I had been in high school in the mid 80's for some reason, do not ask me why...
While looking up TV information on various networks around the world, I saw this Australian package from News Corp called Foxtel. Interesting.
I would so love to own a media company that ran various broadcast and cable networks around the globe. Biggest dream ever, along with making films on the side.
You can find a video of her (a min or so into the preview) here.
