1993 in Canadian Television - 1993 Canadian Television Series Debuts, 1993 Canadian Television Series Endings, This Hour Has 22 Minutes (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: 1993 Canadian television series debuts, 1993 Canadian television series endings, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Air Farce Live, Fort Boyard, Theodore Tugboat, Adventures of the Black Stallion, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, Ready or Not, The Terrible Thunderlizards, Maniac Mansion, The Big Comfy Couch, Tropical Heat, The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon, Polka Dot Door, Under the Umbrella Tree, Hillside, Piment Fort, Canada Tonight, Friends of Gilda, Family Passions, Dieppe, Video Hits, Beyond Reality, Friday Night with Ralph Benmergui, La Petite Vie, 1993 Gemini Awards, Quadratics, Kids Can Rock and Roll, Madison, It's Alive , The Vacant Lot, Night Walk, Material World, Urban Angel. Excerpt: Fort Boyard is a French game show created by Jacques Antoine that was first broadcast in 1990 (as Les Cles de Fort Boyard, shortened for the second series in 1991) and is popular to this day. It has been re-made across the globe, most successfully in the following countries: United Kingdom, Sweden, Lebanon, Norway, Canada, Russia, Denmark, Belgium, Israel, The Netherlands, Greece, Armenia and most recently in Poland and Finland over a 20-year period since the show began in July 1990. Set and filmed on the real Fort Boyard in France, the programme appears similar to The Crystal Maze (which was created by Antoine for Channel 4 in the United Kingdom after Fort Boyard itself was unavailable to film in because of its then ongoing refurbishment). In both programmes the contestants have to complete challenges to win prize money. However, while The Crystal Maze varies the type of games quite considerably, Fort Boyard tends to focus mainly on physical and endurance challenges. Although Fort Boyard was something of a pioneer in the area of game show fear and adventure, later progra...