Contrary to the press Canadian shows have been on "mainstream" US TV (NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, CW) for some time. Due South, for example, ran on the CBS network if fitfully in the 1990s. 18 and Life was given a brief run on the CW and the viewing numbers were so bad that even that little watched network put it on hiatus. The US network big boys have shown Rookie Blue and Flashpoint. Beyond the big network boys Being Erica, Intelligence, Da Vinci's Inquest, Forever Knight, the great Slings and Arrows, Lexx, Stargate, and Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High, both of which became a cult hits in the States thanks to PBS, and others have been shown in various ways on American TV.
Aesthetically speaking I am fond of Intelligence (though I wouldn't use one of those unfortunate similarity metaphors, i.e., it is like The Wire, so many "critics" are fond of to describe it), Da Vinci, Being Erica, and Slings and Arrows. The last was touted as "the best programme ever" by some in the American press (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12144988). That said, it is worth remembering that the press, the Guardian included as this story shows, do rather like to engage in ahistorical hyperbole and such ahistorical hyperbole appears in the press again and again in cycles.
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