Globe and Mail Talkback: Hannah Montana Schools Curious George

[halloween~freak~666]

Degrassi is more than a soap. It got pretty hard hitting issues explored in there: teen pregnancy, rape, drugs, school shooting, Kevin Smith coming to shoot a movie in your school and hitting on your mom (), etc etc.

There's some shows in there I never even heard of

Some results are odd but it really shows its hard to come up with worthwhile educational shows. Especially, as the TVO guy says, when you don't have an education specialist on board.

Poor Jacob Two-Two being in the bottom rung...its still pretty entertaining though. Notice how a good deal of those shows are Canadian? I don't think its a coincidence...

[hottmamao1]

From the episodes I saw, I think it earned a E/I because every episode tended to have one moment where a character explained some educational fact that would help get to where they needed to go.

Though, if that's all it takes to make a show E/I, I'm a bit surprised 4Kids didn't make Dinosaur King E/I (my guess is because their target audience, at least from my personal experience, tends to find E/I shows "uncool").

[Kingdomspaids]

Yeah, usually each episode has some sort of explanation related to science, math or the environment.

[Malou]

Degrassi is too over-dramatic to be taken seriously.

[chelsx]

Kevin Smith hitting on your mom is a VERY serious issue!

[Mr.Random]

Kevin Smith on Degrassi was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen on television.

[paige_keegan_32233]

He's a big fan of the original.

[Wayne( Brandon)]

Yeah, it's no encyclopedia but it's more "educational" than more than a few shows on that list anyway.

Seriously the E/I label is so vague you could slap it on almost anything that doesn't tell kids to incite anarchy or something.


It's way easier to get a US broadcaster to pick it up that way. A big indicator on how well a Canadian series does if it's able to be picked up in the US.

[uniquejason]

What surprises me the most about this list is that Saved By the Bell is on it, as well as Suite Life of Zak and Cody. I thought both shows were more like kid comedies and while people could learn a lesson from watching an episode, somehow, both shows feel too comedy like to be taken as educational. Especially Saved By the Bell, which felt too weird to be taken seriously in the first place. I haven't seen much of The Adrenaline Project, but it looked more like a game show to me more than a show with educational value. I've only seen Degrassi when it was on Nick for awhile a few years ago so I can't comment much on that either.

[ryder_del_fin]

I don't find ANYTHING educational about Hannah Montana. It seems that almost any show can become E/I if adds in a second of actual educational info.