Remember back in January when the Discovery Channel wanted to add game shows to its allowable programming, and I (and others) suggested it was because they wanted to bring in this Cash Cab show that airs on the U.S. network?
Well, that's exactly what's happening. Digital Home reports Discovery Canada has added the show to its lineup.
It will be a Canadian version instead of the show instead of an import, so I can't comment on the type of questions being asked, but if it's regular trivia like the U.S. and U.K. shows, I don't think it will fit in with Discovery's mandate.
You can argue that learning about trivia is also learning, but that would make every trivia game show fair game for this channel. Jeopardy, 1 vs. 100, Beat the Geeks, Hollywood Squares and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire would all be OK.
Is that what we want the Discovery Channel to look like?
[...] The CRTC approved the change in its license, and Discovery announced that it was carbon-copying importing the format for use here. I still held out hope that the format would be predominantly educational in nature, and/or that [...]