So You Think You Can Dance Canada vs. US

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Have you ever wondered what's better, US or Canadian TV shows? I feel like lately US TV shows have taken over late night TV leaving Canada to try and make a show even better. A lot of the time the US will come up with some new reality TV show that takes off right away, and Canada is left trying to match it which never works out to well. Most of the shows I have seen where Canada tries to make their own version hasn't really worked out to well. In most cases the Canada shows end up getting cancelled or negatively compared to the US version.

One TV show that is a big example of this is So You Think You Can Dance. First coming about it was an American run TV show that just finished its 9th season. Unfortunately, you could only audition for the show if you were an American citizen, so where did that leave all the talented Canadian dancers? This is when Canada decided to come up with its own version calling it So You Think You Can Dance Canada. Of course, even as someone who watched both, I couldn't help but always compare it to the American one. From the host to the choreographers to even the dancers, it was just never the same and after one season I stopped watching it all together. It was great dancing don't get me wrong, it just wasn't the same.

So You Think You Can Dance Canada only lasted 5 seasons before being cancelled. I think it lost a lot of its fan base that the show just couldn't survive. Although I didn't really watch the Canadian version of the show, I think it was wrong of them to cancel the show all together. This show is a huge way for dancers to get their names and faces out their in the world to potentially get a job within the dance world either by a choreographer picking them up or even a director/producer picking them up for a show or movie. The dance world isn't the easiest place to make it so this was huge for a lot of Canadian dancers, many of my friends even tried out and one actually made it on the show!

So, I want to know what you guys think, should they of cancelled the show as it wasn't much compared to the American version, or kept it going with the hope to get Canadian dancers names out there?