''Qanurli'' is a comedy series broadcast on the

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Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. The show revolves around Inuk Qablunaaq (Anguti Johnston) and Nipangi Huittuq (Vinnie Karetak), a quirky duo, who host a show from their tent on the arctic

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. The half hour television show also features skits, commercial parodies, fake newscasts, and more. One of its aims is to promote

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s. It specifically uses the

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language. The television program was originally produced by the

Inuit Broadcasting Corporation The Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) ( iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑕᑯᓐᓇᕋᑦᓴᓕᕆᔨᑦ) is a television production company based in Nunavut with programming targeted at the Inuit population of Nunavut. Almost all of its programs are broadc ...

as a children and youth show. In 2015, Qanukiaq Studios Inc., set up by the original cast and crew, took over as the shows new producers. Initially the show was on a low budget of $10,000-20,000 but the budget for the 2017 season was three times this.

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* http://www.qanurli.ca/ * http://aptn.ca/qanurli/ Aboriginal Peoples Television Network original programming 2010s Canadian sketch comedy television series Inuit television series {{Canada-comedy-tv-prog-stub