Canada to cut off exports of episodes of How It’s Made

The Canadian government says its response to new Trump tariffs taking effect on Wednesday will include a ban on exports of the Canadian documentary series How It’s Made.

The series, in which a narrator describes video of factories producing consumer goods, produced more than 400 episodes from 2001 to 2019. It is no longer in production, but reruns air regularly on the Science channel in the U.S. “With this move, we are cutting off a vital supply of affordable filler programming,” said foreign affairs minister Mélanie Joly.

Discovery and other authorized distributors of the program in the U.S. will see their contracts terminated and ordered to destroy any copies of the content they have in their possession.

Joly reassured Canadians that they would still have access to the show on Canadian-owned channels like USA or Oxygen or whatever Discovery Canada is called now.

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