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| 13th Sep 2021, 5:53 AM | #1 REPORT | |
 | George Slv This comment marked as Spam. Please press Not Spam Member since Aug 2012 498 Points | What was the title of it. 3 parts I think, about a fellow who applies for the NHL, is accepted and then his success with the team. It's not Hockey Night. There were two or three female topless love scenes that were broadcast across Canada on the English CBC, same as the French production. Then a public controversy about this between the English and the French. It was rebroadcast without the nudity later. If available, which edition? |
| 20th Sep 2021, 5:03 PM | #2 REPORT | |
 | 23skidoo Member since Jul 2014 4061 Points | I did a little digging and the closest I could find was a series from 2008 called MVP, which aired in the UK as Trophy Wives. No mention of a French version but the Wikipedia article links to a news article "Sexy MVP worries NHL" which seems to fit the bill. It wasn't a miniseries, though - it aired for 10 episodes and was cancelled due to ratings and production costs, so this might not be the show you're thinking about. |
| 22nd Sep 2021, 12:50 PM | #3 REPORT | |
| George Slv This comment marked as Spam. Please press Not Spam Member since Aug 2012 498 Points | 23skidoo, it would have been in the 1980s or early 1990s. CBC TV showed a little debate. Frenchman saying it's fine to let young people see nudity, it shows them what they have to look forward to. English Canadian says there really are "two solitudes" in Canada. Not ten episodes. |
| 30th Sep 2021, 3:07 AM | #4 REPORT | |
| George Slv This comment marked as Spam. Please press Not Spam Member since Aug 2012 498 Points | The name came to me - He Shoots, He Scores (1986). Lance et Compte. Now to work out how many episodes of the first season were telecast in English, or whether it was condensed to a miniseries. |
| 3rd Oct 2021, 9:55 PM | #5 REPORT | |
| 23skidoo Member since Jul 2014 4061 Points | @George Siv - I think this may well be the series being asked about. Although it ran for 13 episodes, I just ran He Shoots, He Scores through newspapers.com and found Montreal Gazette reviews referring to it as a mini-series. There's mention of swearing and sex, with a little hand-wringing about both. It appears to have run 13 episodes in both French and English. |
| 4th Oct 2021, 2:23 AM | #6 REPORT | |
| George Slv This comment marked as Spam. Please press Not Spam Member since Aug 2012 498 Points | That word mini-series is tantalizing. Looking for confirmation of my memory. It can't be both 13 eps and mini-series. Yes this is the one. |
| 4th Feb 2022, 8:15 PM | #7 REPORT | |
| 23skidoo Member since Jul 2014 4061 Points | Glad you were able to solve the mystery! Mini-series is a very vague term and it's not uncommon for a show of that length to be labelled a mini-series. Indeed, check out the 1970s "miniseries" Centennial which ran for 12 episodes, each running about 2 hours each. |
| 18th Feb 2022, 11:53 PM | #8 REPORT | |
| George Slv This comment marked as Spam. Please press Not Spam Member since Aug 2012 498 Points | I believe that what online comments you can find are not quite accurate. I'd say that first each season ran as a weekly series on French Quebec TV. At the end of each series it was packaged into an English MINI-series that ran within one week. I watched both. The first had nudity and the second did not. I did not find any video around of these. |
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