Are Ciné-Cadeau still lives on in our homes?

That was a time when the Télé-Québec's annual movie block Ciné-Cadeau were part of the reward for our long hard-working year that went to be end. Well, this is less so the case since the past remaining years.

When I were little, I have known this movie block by my own grandparents, which used to taped for us some of the same old Asterix, Lucky Luke or a random occasional animated feature (Like the 1985s CareBears movie) that were shown there. It was also a unique ride to discovering rarely-seen movies that are not just the same rehashs of CGI movies from big studios like it is today.

But when my grandmother passed away of cancer in 1997, the magic of this movie block has shattered to me by the repetition of the same movies over and over. Actually, by age of 13, my Holidays tradition was more in the casual pace: Watching tons of classic Warner cartoons that were available, especially the Road Runner series of shorts that used to ran at fillers, by be dialogues-free. (And that they don't have any excuse to pay fees to the "dubbing" studio for played these.)

But since last year, Ciné-Cadeau appear to me at a fetish for nostalgic medias. Because whether I'll go, nobody want to mention that. Even not the people from my generation who have grew up with. Filling it to four long weeks in December is more close to extortion to the general audience than what the original premise was meant to be. And then, to seen the only educational and cultural Television we have to ran commercials in the movies is just baffling. It don't need to be so elitist like PBS is, but it could nonthenless shown more attention or respect for the hardcore movie fans.

And that Télé-Québec continue to exploited children in their own shows by also took profit of the shutdown of La Chaîne Disney and Télémagino in the year, to churned out cheap-looking shows from Europe or elsewhere, thought I can greetings them to ran these stuffs on their own platform, which it is to me more safety and legal for us, children included, than just posted it on YouTube at a source to stealing the intellectual property of their owners.

But some people and even TV Entrepreneurs have says so in the past year, that Télé-Québec, at a TV service has to shutdown for be instead a production studio. It would be much cost-effective at the end than just keep in life a Television service where only their broadcasters and the rival medias care of what they run on.

And we have to make it clear, these movies weren't intented to be playing or re-playing every Holidays for nearly a mid-century. What were pretty magical in the 1980s and '90s became frustrating since the early-00s came, and when even my mother has says openly that these same movies are what they ran every year. And that I used to renting these on videoclubs for the same reason. Because they were real films made for all ages. Not childrens fodder like it is the norm in America.

But looking of the fewer reception the movie block have in the past two years to the normal audience and that we don't watched it much anymore at home, this is perhaps a good thing that the same Asterix et all are been reducing to only one or two airings the year for the Holidays season. There was a time where you can seen the same movie five times in fewer times, which it is too much! 

The downgrade of this is Télé-Québec "penetrated" dangerously to the family movies from American studios, and where a fewer of them are barely look close of its mandatory, like the Lego movies about Ninjago or Batman. And what about some mediocre outings like the two godawful live-action Smurfs movies, which it own a fetish to this since that schizophrenic 2021s TV cartoon started to be air?

Considering the financial difficulties our youth specialties channels struggled in the past decade, it's a little too soon, too late, to admit that Télé-Québec (and even Radio-Canada for that matter) start to act dangerously as from the era where I provided such fictional TV lineups on my own, with animated shows airing here and there... from the days where American National Televisions has completely cut to ran these for cost reasons and by the multiplication of Cable channels that themed these. 

The day where only Radio-Canada or Télé-Québec are what we will be forced to watch on any capability will appear much quicker than we thinking if no one from the Federal government or the CRTC give for real to the Private Media companies a veritable financial support. Even them pay taxes and contribute in the biggest part in our culture, artists and creators, even if this year, they appeared many times at opportunist and very unconnected with what we had endearing in the past twelve months.