I’ve never actually seen Caillou. People don’t seem eager to jump up and defend the show. So, legit question: why does it still exist?
Via @alexthechick.
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Government subsidies.
Cailou’s publisher, CINAR, was actually caught in a massive scandal of embezzling millions of Canadian government subsidy to Bahamanian accounts, through a scheme where American writing was credited to the wife of former Quebec Premier and former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Jean Charest.
CINAR got bought out after the scandals, was renamed Cookie Jar, and merged with a separately bought-out DIC (French-turned-American firm that produced Inspector Gadget, Rainbow Brite, Heathcliff, Care Bears, The Real GhostBusters, etc. etc.)
And after subisides created Caillou, subsidies broadcasted it. As the linked article mentions, it ran on PBS in the US.
I suspect the reboot will be different from the original.
As usual, we can Blame Canadaâ„¢
South Park was right again
It was earnest.
Like baby rice cereal.
It wasn’t interesting enough to be bad. It was just pap. The whole pap. And nothing but the pap.