Product Details

• Actors: Rick Mercer, Peter Keleghan, Leah Pinsent, Dan Lett, Jackie Torrens
• Writers: Rick Mercer, Gerald Lunz, Michael Donovan, William Flaherty
• Producers: Allen Harris
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006D2AC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #271,295 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Made In Canada (aka The Industry) Episodes 1-6" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They REALLY need to release the entire series, June 6, 2006

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Alex's Mom - See all my reviews

This review is from: Made In Canada (aka The Industry) Episodes 1-6 (DVD)

I stumbled across this show as "The Industry" on PBS a few years ago. It is one of the funniest sitcoms I have ever seen. Great dark, sarcastic comedy. I was thrilled when I found this DVD a while ago and have been deeply saddened that the rest of it has not been released (it ran five seasons, I believe) and PBS is no longer running it (in my area anyway). Who hasn't seen every episode of "Fawlty Towers" twice, anyway??

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where are the other seasons?, July 12, 2004

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Amanda Reno "Twitch City fan" (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Made In Canada (aka The Industry) Episodes 1-6 (DVD)

I caught this show on late-night PBS in the US and immediately loved it. I've always been a fan of Rick Mercer's intelligent rants anyway, and it was great to see him playing a character with a darker side than the Quinlan Quints. If you haven't seen the show, it involves Richard, a lowly script reader at a bad Canadian TV production company whose plan to climb the corporate ladder just happens to require destroying the careers of his co-workers. But hey, to make an omelet you've got to break a few eggs. And the comeuppance he receives at the end of the season is one of the funniest cliffhangers you'll ever see.

Actually, the whole show is very funny--I would not have thought backstabbing and double-dealing could be that humorous. It's also got enough plot twists that I did not see coming, to keep you on your toes. I've read interviews in which the writers said they modeled the scheming Richard on Shakespeare's "Richard III", and he does show the same mixture of drama and dry humor. The only real drawback to the show is that it makes the all-too-numerous crappy sitcoms out there look even crappier.

The subsequent seasons of this show weren't quite as tight as the first one, but they're still really good. So when are they going to be released on DVD? The first season seems to have a pretty high sales rank considering how long it's been released, and the tapes I made are starting to wear out!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Big Biz..., July 9, 2006

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James D. Moore "Jim" (Houston - where hell is not only hot, it's humid) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Made In Canada (aka The Industry) Episodes 1-6 (DVD)

This is probably what Enron, World Com would've been like if they'd been in television. This is a great, quick witted show. It's all about sharks circling each other. Very funny.