Sesame Park
Sesame Park is the Canadian version of Sesame Street, which was originally named Canadian Sesame Street.In 1972, the bulk of Sesame Street's content was licensed out to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (the CBC), who then added segments teaching about Canadian culture and French bilingualism. Gradually, characters like Basil the Bear, French-Canadian Louis the Otter, Dodi a bush pilot, Katie a disabled child, Barbara Plum (a parody of CBC broadcasting legend Barbara Frum), Beau Beaver and many others started to appear on the show. Most of the production of the segments took place in Winnipeg.
In 1995, the CBC cut the show to a half-hour and dropped Sesame Street's street scenes and many American segments, instead airing mostly Canadian content. Added to the cast was a puppet of a cat named Chaos and a human character named Ray. Many guests made appearances on the series, including Red Green, a Canadian situation-comedy character played by Steve Smith.
However, the show has shown less than spectacular ratings after this major revamp, and is tentatively cancelled as of 2002.
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