[sandworm101]

The best shows are those that don't fit a particular category, or that grow to move between categories. Lots of great british TV bounces between comedy and drama (sherlock, cuffs). Some American shows cannot be pinned to a specific age range (simpsons). I still laugh when I see TopGear listed as "informational/other" by my cable company.

Also ... (i just noticed)

Australian Movies 5230 Belgian Movies 262 Korean Movies 5685 Latin American Movies 1613 Middle Eastern Movies 5875 New Zealand Movies

No Canada? No Canada comedy, no Canada movies, nothing? Belgian but not Canadian? Look to the end of your favorite shows. Look for the "Canadian film tax credit" statement before saying there aren't any canadian shows.

[NDizzle]

Maybe Netflix is claiming Trailer Park Boys now. That is totally Canadian. It's not a rocket appliance.

[jonathankoren]

They do call it a "Netflix Original", which I guess means it's "original" in the sense that Arrested Development was an "original" (i.e. first run episodes)

[smellf]

It's an "original" in the sense that Netflix has produced some content in the series.

[Zikes]

Wasn't Red Green on Netflix at one point, too?

[schwap]

I can't remember, but it's all on youtube now: https://www.youtube.com/user/RedGreenTV

[jerf]

Well, thank you for that. Growing up in Michigan, we had a bit of Canadian cross-over stuff [1], and I saw quite a bit of that show back in the era before on-demand. We never really had cable. Definitely some good hacker-esque skits in there, though I never felt the shows as a whole quite gelled in their overarching plots.

[1]: Double the Olympics coverage being the best. Curling is overmocked. It is mockable, yes, but it is overmocked.

[pasbesoin]

In the... 2010, it was, Olympic games, NBC, the official broadcaster in the U.S., had so "sliced and diced" its presentation that I found its main coverage unwatchable. However, on one of its lesser affiliates, it was carrying... "second or third tier", per its judgement, sports coverage largely intact.

One particular item on it, that I ran across just by chance channel-surfing, was coverage of the women's curling. Complete games, quietly but informatively commentated. This introduced me to curling (beyond a passing "stones on ice" familiarity), and I ended up really enjoying it. To boot, it came down to Canada versus Sweden in a rather exciting set of rounds of elimination.

Some of it can be fairly parochial and/or simple, but the CBC et al. also put out some pretty good stuff. Including items that don't try to be more than they are, but do an excellent job at that.

Hopefully, under Trudeau et al., they will be released from the manufactured chokehold that has been squeezing the life out of them. And, any force that cuts down crap such as the ueber-commercialization of the Olympics, I welcome.

[kobayashi]

I started watching curling during the 2014 games and learned to love it. Haven't watched it since, but I'm definitely looking forward to 2018!

PS: Completely disagree with your assessment of the CBC and their operation under Harper's premiership, but such is life. Just wanted it noted.

[sandworm101]

Not sure. Was it the Red Green Show or "The New Red Green Show"? I think PBS took it over at some point.

[LVB]

http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/56181

"Canadian Movies" via the Netflix Subgenre UI

[sandworm101]

I'm not finding that catagory, but I'm on my work machine atm.

[LVB]

There are a bunch of categories in the OP list I don't see either. Canadian happens to be on my mine, for whatever reason. Pretty annoying. (Almost as much as continuously recommending movies that I've already watched and rated.)

[pasbesoin]

The Canadian category (nor any "Canada/ian" category) is not present in the version of the "cheat list" I ran across.

It does work for me, though, in the U.S.

From my experience with the list I have, I am guessing that if your region, at the time you look, does not have any matches for the category, you get the "unavailable" response instead of an empty list.

I will note that the Canadian region has a number of items that do not show up in the above category in the U.S. region. Including several enjoyable comedies.

Also, there are some Canadian items I'm aware of that are available in the U.S. but are not showing up in that category. I guess some of those are TV shows rather than "Canadian Movies". I wonder whether there is a category ID for Canadian TV shows -- probably. Anyone have it?

Overall, from the recent list leak, it appears that Netflix has not, or not always, had a single, authoritative categorization. Probably multiple people/groups defining, including at different times, their own categories that often overlap. Also, I wonder whether internally they have tagging, with these category ID's defining/exposing specific combinations of that tagging.

[spike021]

FWIW, I've seen several Canadian shows.

One in particular IIRC is The Transporter series. I don't know how much more there is, but there's definitely more. I think Flashpoint is also on there, which IIRC is produced by a Canadian studio.

[sandworm101]

They do have plenty of canadian content. I was just surprised not to see any acknowledgement in their list of categories.

If you want to cover everything filmed in canada, that is a very very long list. X-Files, X-men, twilight, the latest godzilla ... it will take a while. But if you expand to to all "canadian content" then be ready for a shock. The first season of the new Doctor Who was a partial CBC production.

[treve]

Robocop too, right?

[2close4comfort]

How am I going to find Strange Brew now!?!?!?