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TIL that 75% of Canadian English-language TV shows are from the US. By contrast, the top ten TV shows in Quebec are all local productions. While French Canadians love watching American films dubbed in English, they prefer low-budget Quebec TV shows (téléromans) to big-budget American ones.

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