Keep Circulating the Tapes / No Export for You: Only the six-episode first season has been released on DVD and has since fallen out of print. Some US PBS stations still run the series, as does the Canadian channel Bite. Some wonderful individual has been capping them and putting them out there.
In the first episode, "Pawn to King Four", the characters are tasked with getting Michael "Damacles" Rushton to sign on for 20 more episodes of The Sword of Damacles to bring its total number of episodes to 65, the minimum syndication requirement. Made in Canada itself ran for 65 episodes, and is indeed in syndication on Bite.
The Series 4 episode "Damacles, Time Traveller" ends with Richard, played by Rick Mercer, giving an acceptance speech at the Geminis for his work on the Sword of Damacles episode in the central plot. Rick Mercer later received a Gemini for writing "Damacles, Time Traveller".note He won out over the writers of four other episodes of Series 4 of Made in Canada: "Roomies", "Everyone's a Critic", "Creative Bookkeeping", and "The War of 1812".
Only So Many Canadian Actors: Name a Canadian film or TV star who was active in the late 1990s/early 2000s and there's a good chance they showed up in at least one episode. Examples include veteran film stars Margot Kidder, Shirley Douglas, and Maury Chaykin, veteran TV actor Gordon Pinsent, child star-turned-adult star and filmmaker Sarah Polley, Anne of Green Gables alums Megan Follows (as her in-universe counterpart) and Jackie Burroughs, Street Legal alums C. David Johnson and Sonja Smits, The Kids in the Hall alums Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson, The Red Green Show's Patrick McKenna, Whose Line Is It Anyway?'s Colin Mochrie, SCTV's Joe Flaherty... and many more.
Janet Kidder, who played series regular Lisa Sutton, is the niece of Margot Kidder, who made a special guest appearance as faded star Dian Del Largo in the Series 2 episode "Diva".
Leah Pinsent, who played Veronica Miller, is the daughter of Gordon Pinsent, who appeared in Series 1 as the aging star of Beaver Creek and in the series finale as the dairy farmer who buys Pyramid and fires everyone except for Victor and Wanda.note In other words, Pinsent fires his own daughter and son-in-law in the series finale.
Real Song Theme Tune: "Blow at High Dough" by The Tragically Hip; as the first verse references a movie being shot in the singer's hometown, the lyrics help to establish the series' focus on the entertainment industry.
Romance on the Set: Peter Keleghan (Alan) and Leah Pinsent (Veronica) became involved while making Made in Canada.note This caused a bit of a scandal, as Keleghan already had a wife and two children at the time. Ironically, several episodes feature flashback scenes revealing that Alan and Veronica had a fling which Veronica deeply regrets.
Peter Blais appears as a Film/Theater professor in the Series 1 episode "The Mill Show", and later has a recurring role as Geoff, the gay actor who plays Parson Hubbard on Beaver Creek.
Gordon Pinsent appears as Walter Franklin, the lead actor of Beaver Creek who dies in Series 1, and later as Myron Kingswell, the dairy farmer who buys Pyramid and fires everyone except Victor and Wanda in the very last episode.
Of the series' 65 episodes, 34 end with a character saying "I think that went well" (23 for Richard, two each for Veronica, Alan, and Siobhan, one for Victor, and four for guest characters), 24 end with a character saying "This is not good" (eight for Richard, five for Victor, four for Veronica, three for Alan, two for Wanda, and two for guest characters), two end with both phrases ("Ohm Dot Com" and "The Skateboard Show", spoken by Richard each time), two end with variations on the phrases (Victor saying "This should go well" ("Connect the Dots"), Richard saying "This is so good" ("Richard's Brother")), and three end with neither line ("The Christmas Show", "Girls' Night Out", and "Damacles... What a Doll").
