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Item Sci-fi TV in the Great White North : the development of Vancouver as a science fiction media capital(2018-08-17) Hatchell, Russ Eugene; Straubhaar, Joseph D.Over the past three decades, Vancouver has emerged as a favorable destination for Hollywood television productions. Many academics have noted this trend as a result of industrial shifts within Hollywood, favorable economic conditions in Canadian locales, and a cultural proximity between the United States and Canada. Concurrently, Vancouver has also become a destination for many of Hollywood’s science fiction television productions. This thesis explores how the multi-channel transition of the Hollywood television industry cultivated a high-demand for content production and ultimately led to a wave of science fiction, horror, and supernatural productions in Vancouver. Through historical accounts of the television industry and discourse analysis of the industry’s trade press, this study tracks major industrial milestones that led to the rise of science fiction television production in the 1990s and early 2000s. Due to the strategies employed by three key distribution outlets—Fox, The WB, and Sci Fi—and the studios partnered with them, the rise in production of science fiction television in Vancouver points to the industrial significance in Hollywood’s development of the Canadian city into a genre-inflected media capital.