TORONTO — Canadians with a lust for lust are sick and tired of investing so heavily in the United States porn market and Northern Peaks has decided to do something about it. Northern Peaks is the newest subscription television channel granted a license to produce digital content for the Canadian market – and the first to promise that it will be of a decidedly adult nature.According to Shaun Donnelly, president of Alberta based Real Productions, the parent company behind Northern Peaks, the new channel is an example of Canadian self-reliance and pride.
“I think, as Canadians, there is a bit of a tiredness in seeing all American stuff,” he opined to the Associated Press. “There is always a thrill for something that is local, and you get the sense that these are people you can meet at the supermarket.”
Although the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) only requires that 15-percent of all programming be Canadian in origin, Northern Peaks has promised to dedicate “not less than 50-percent of the broadcast day and not less than 50-percent of the evening broadcast period to Canadian programming.”
Currently, Real Productions claims to have the corner of the market on domestic erotic content, with more than 200 videos and 75 television episodes to its credit. Once satellite or cable providers sign on, Northern Peaks will be able to provide feature films, game shows, mini-series, sitcoms, made-for-TV movies, dramatic series, and documentaries.
Donnelly, who intends Northern Peaks to be “Canada’s first adult video channel offering significant Canadian adult content,” has previously produced television programming for Playboy TV in the U.S. and Granada Television in Britain says that all five major Canadian cable and satellite carriers have expressed interest in the channel.
Nonetheless, some pundits have speculated that finding an agreeable cable or satellite provider may prove impossible for the channel To them Donnelly counters that “I’ve been in touch with the cable companies throughout the process and went ahead with it based on the interest we had.”
