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The Baby Blue Movie

The Baby Blue Movie
Original series title card
Also known asBaby Blue Returns
Baby Blue 2
GenreSoftcore pornography
Erotica
Created byMoses Znaimer
Narrated byMark Dailey
Country of originCanada
Production
ProducersRobert Lantos
Brian Linehan
Production companyCHUM Limited (1981–2007)
Original release
NetworkCitytv
ReleaseSeptember 29, 1972 (1972-09-29) –
August 30, 2008 (2008-08-30)

The Baby Blue Movie was a late-night programming block on the Canadian television channel Citytv that primarily aired softcore pornography and erotica films. Initially broadcast from 1972 to 1975 to generate publicity for the then-upstart channel, Baby Blue was the first regularly-scheduled adult television program to air in North America. The series was revived in the 1990s as Baby Blue 2, which aired until 2008.

History

CITY-TV began broadcasting out of Toronto, Ontario on September 28, 1972, as the first commercial ultra high frequency (UHF) television station in Canada.[1][2] Station founder Moses Znaimer aired feature films as the bulk of Citytv's programming as the station established itself, and hired Brian Linehan to purchase and schedule movies.[3] To generate publicity for the new station and communicate that it was for "mature, urban adults,"[4] Znaimer conceived of a regularly scheduled block of softcore adult films to air on Friday nights, which became The Baby Blue Movie.[3]

The title was suggested by Znaimer's partner Marilyn Lightstone, who noted that because the films were not "blue" movies (a term for X rated films), they could be classified as "baby blue" instead.[5]

I Am Curious (Yellow) aired as the first Baby Blue Movie on September 29, 1972, with the film's companion I Am Curious (Blue) airing the following night.[6] Robert Lantos later joined as a producer[4] after acquiring Canadian broadcasting rights to short films from the New York Erotic Film Festival and selling the rights to Znaimer, which aired as The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival.[7][8]

The Metropolitan Toronto Police exerted frequent pressure on Znaimer and Citytv over Baby Blue,[9] and in January 1975 the station was charged with obscenity for the Baby Blue broadcast of Love Boccaccio Style.[6] While the charge was eventually dismissed, Znaimer elected to cancel Baby Blue shortly thereafter; the program had accomplished its goal of generating publicity for Citytv, and the network was running out of acceptable films to broadcast.[10] On May 2, 1975, the all-ages film Cat Ballou aired in the time slot normally reserved for Baby Blue, with the viewer discretion notice comedically re-phrased to indicate that "the following program is for family audiences."[6]

To mark the 20th anniversary of Citytv, The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival was screened on September 28, 1992 as a one-off installment of Baby Blue titled Baby Blue Returns.[6] The series was revived as Baby Blue 2 in the late 1990s as a companion to Ed's Night Party, with the viewer discretion warning delivered by Citytv journalist Mark Dailey.[6] CHUM Limited was acquired by CTVglobemedia in 2007 and the Citytv stations were sold to Rogers Media later that year;[11] Baby Blue ceased broadcasting shortly thereafter, with Sex House Volume 1 airing as the final Baby Blue Movie on August 30, 2008.[12][a]

Programming

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Films

Television series

Impact and influence

Baby Blue was the first regularly-scheduled adult television program to be broadcast in North America.[6] A 1973 survey by the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement found that the series was viewed by 210,000 of the 450,000 households that Citytv was broadcast to;[9] at its peak, Baby Blue was watched by two-thirds of the television-viewing public in Toronto.[19][6] The popularity of the series allowed Citytv to set commercial advertising rates for Baby Blue at CAD$250 per minute, nearly double what the channel charged for other programs on its schedule.[9]

In 1975, the theater company Theatre Passe Muraille staged the original play I Love You, Baby Blue, which used the series to examine Toronto's sex culture;[6] the success of the play allowed the company to purchase its current space on Ryerson Avenue, which it occupies to this day.[6][20][21] David Cronenberg's 1983 film Videodrome, which focuses on a fictional Toronto-based UHF television station that is infamous for broadcasting sensationalistic material, is inspired by Citytv and Baby Blue.[7][22][23]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Per the Internet Archive.[12]

References

  1. ^ Anthony 2008, pp. 26.
  2. ^ Barss 2010, pp. 104.
  3. ^ a b c Anthony 2008, pp. 27.
  4. ^ a b Kaplan, Ben (22 September 2012). "On the eve of Citytv's 40th birthday, we ask Moses Znaimer and colleagues whether such a station could still be born today". National Post. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  5. ^ Barss 2010, pp. 105.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Conroy, Ed (27 September 2009). "A sexual revolution in 64,000 watts". Retrontario. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  7. ^ a b Bob Lantos on Baby Blue origins (Video clip). Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  8. ^ Znaimer, Moses (21 September 1998). "How I started Robert Lantos in business… and why he owes it all to me". Playback. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  9. ^ a b c "Try Toronto television for the best in 'blue' movies". The Port Arthur News. 21 March 1973. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  10. ^ "Goodby, Baby Blue, says 79". The Toronto Star. 3 May 1975. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  11. ^ "Transaction closed – Rogers takes operating control of Citytv" (Press release). Rogers Communications. 31 October 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  12. ^ a b c "Citytv GREAT MOVIES". Citytv. Archived from the original on 29 August 2008. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  13. ^ "Baby Blue 2". Citytv. Archived from the original on 14 January 2006. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  14. ^ "Baby Blue 2". Citytv. Archived from the original on 10 April 2006. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  15. ^ "Baby Blue 2". Citytv. Archived from the original on 9 January 2006. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  16. ^ "Baby Blue 2". Citytv. Archived from the original on 20 August 2008. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  17. ^ Dancyger, Ken (1976). "The Point of Returns". Cinema Canada. Athabasca University. p. 46. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  18. ^ "Baby Blue 2". Citytv. Archived from the original on 24 November 2005. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  19. ^ Barss 2010, pp. 106.
  20. ^ Summi, Glen (18 May 2000). "Naked truths". Now. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  21. ^ "Shows In Small Spaces Part 6: Theatre Passe Muraille's Back Space". Citytv. 23 December 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  22. ^ Marsh, Calum (27 March 2017). "On CITY-TV's golden era, and how to show Canadians the movies they don't even realize they want to see". National Post. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  23. ^ Benson-Allott, Caetlin (2013). Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship From VHS to File Sharing. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520275126.
Bibliography
  • Anthony, George (2008). Starring Brian Linehan: A Life Behind the Scenes. Emblem Editions. ISBN 978-0771007583.
  • Barss, Patchen (2010). The Erotic Engine: How Pornography has Powered Mass Communication, from Gutenberg to Google. Doubleday Canada. ISBN 978-0385667371.

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