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1	''Incredible Story Studio'' was a [[CanadianSeries Canadian]] {{Anthology}} Series targeted at younger audiences with a pretty creative twist: episodes were adapted directly from story ideas submitted by kids all around the world. The show was produced in [[UsefulNotes/CanadianProvincesAndTerritories Regina, Saskatchewan]] and originally aired on [[MediaNotes/CanadianMultichannelNetworks YTV]], but also aired on Ontario and Saskatchewan public television, as it was partly funded by those provincial governments.
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3	Each episode featured two ten-minute, one-act shorts. The FramingDevice which gives the show its name involves the exploits of the Studio Boss (Camille Devine) and her [[TheVoice unseen assistant Jacobs]], who behaves as if she is living in MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood (complete with affected Mid-Atlantic accent) and talks up each story and its author, and introduces the main players. Helping to sell the "studio" feeling is the small repertory of child and teen actors available to the producers in Regina, which is shared with several other shows that aired around the same time (particularly ''Series/{{Mentors}}'' and ''The [=MAXimum=] Dimension''), resulting in many of the same faces taking lead parts in several stories each season. Notably, Devine herself is part of this repertory and frequently introduces ''herself'' as one of the players, creating an entirely self-contained CelebrityParadox. The young author of the story being adapted introduces themselves in a video clip immediately before the story begins. After the story has concluded, the Studio Boss narrates a short blurb about the author.
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5	The show ran for five seasons from 1997 to 2002.
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7	!!Jacobs, roll the film! This series contains examples of:
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9	* CatchPhrase: The Studio Boss ends every intro with "Jacobs, roll the film!"
10	* NoNameGiven: The Studio Boss is known by no other name. She is ''not'' Camille Devine, the actress who plays her, as the Boss treats Devine as a separate person.

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