When will O Canada! be revived?

[tony6]

O! Canada was a show of Cartoon Network in the 90s. It was great. It featured short films from part of the National Film Board of Canada. A great revival should be about animated shorts from veteran and newcomer Canadian animators. Who’s interested?

 

[Goldstar!]

O! Canada was a show of Cartoon Network in the 90s. It was great. It featured short films from part of the National Film Board of Canada. A great revival should be about animated shorts from veteran and newcomer Canadian animators. Who’s interested?

Not Cartoon Network, apparently.

Also, you do know that the shorts that aired on O! Canada weren't made for Cartoon Network, right? CN just acquired a collection of those Canadian shorts and aired them for a mild point of variety. They cost very little to import since they aren't based on popular IPs. I first saw "What On Earth?" and "The Log Driver's Waltz" on The Great Space Coaster in syndication in the 1980s. The latter short also aired as an intermission on HBO back in the day.

 

[tony6]

Not Cartoon Network, apparently.

Also, you do know that the shorts that aired on O! Canada weren't made for Cartoon Network, right? CN just acquired a collection of those Canadian shorts and aired them for a mild point of variety. They cost very little to import since they aren't based on popular IPs. I first saw "What On Earth?" and "The Log Driver's Waltz" on The Great Space Coaster in syndication in the 1980s. The latter short also aired as an intermission on HBO back in the day.

Ok, what if it was revived today?

 

[Silverstar]

A show like O Canada is something old Cartoon Network would do, not current Cartoon Network. That was back in the early years of CN during Ted Turner's reign, when they would just air anything that was animated and available to them. The current CN is too bottom-line focused; they don't air arty, experimental stuff like O Canada anymore. These days CN doesn't show anything that's not going to benefit them financially. If it's not going to earn CN money or big ratings, then they're not interested.

 

[Goldstar!]

Ok, what if it was revived today?

It's not going to be, for the reasons Silverstar mentioned above. O Canada could conceivably be brought to HBO Max, but there would likely be rights issues since Cartoon Network doesn't own any of those shorts.

 

[tony6]

It's not going to be, for the reasons Silverstar mentioned above. O Canada could conceivably be brought to HBO Max, but there would likely be rights issues since Cartoon Network doesn't own any of those shorts.

Okay. What if they did it with veteran and upcoming Canadian animators?

 

[Silverstar]

Okay. What if they did it with veteran and upcoming Canadian animators?

It doesn't matter, dude. The whole concept is just not something the current Cartoon Network would be interested in doing. These days CN is viewed as a kids' channel (keep in mind that O Canada aired before there was an [adult swim]; they had 24 hours to fill and they had to stick something on there to air during the wee hours) and a show like that doesn't fit in with CN's current age demographic or sponsors.

[adult swim] or HBO Max could conceivably air something like that, but as Goldstar mentioned there'd likely be rights issues since the shorts would be imported. If [as] really wanted to make a shorts compilation show, they don't need Canada to do it; they could just make something like Liquid Television or TripTank and employ works from artists and directors here in the States.

 

[The Overlord]

O! Canada was a show of Cartoon Network in the 90s. It was great. It featured short films from part of the National Film Board of Canada. A great revival should be about animated shorts from veteran and newcomer Canadian animators. Who’s interested?

Another issue is how much Canadian content is there for CN to show now? CN actually showed some Canadian Content back in the late 2000s with the success of Total Drama Island, but that was a long time ago and Teletoon really hasn't create a lot of new content recently, relying on one or two shows and just importing American cartoons. Teletoon had some interesting content back in the 2000s, but not now.

 

[Corwin Haught]

There's a whole bunch of films on the NFB's website and YouTube channel, if you're that hard up for the kind of animation featured on that series.