[QUOTE=ronnie993tt;11041983]The reason Canadian TV sucks is Hollywood attracts all the good talent. What's left is a bunch of grant seekers..............but I don't really have an opinion.[/QUOTE

Many of the so-called Hollywood productions are shot in Canada.
Canada has fantastic shooting-crew talent. Fantastic actors as well.
Steve has choked off most grants.
He doesn't want Canada to have culture or science or consumer protection or clean air or clean water.......................

 

Wow Phil, didn't realize that you were an avid MM collector. Would love to hear about your collection and/or thoughts about her life. Look forward to a chat at Artisano's.

 

[QUOTE=creaturecat;11045729]Stuff is shot in Canada because it was cheap.
Look how much it's tailed off since our dollar hit par.
While Canada does have it's crop of talent, most have to leave in order to "make it".
And Canada's lack of creativeness really hurts the industry.
Too much politics involved. How many blank blank Canada's are there?
Chopped Canada, Storage Wars Canada, Canadian pickers etc.
Can we not come up with an original idea?

The only one that has stood the test of time? Hockey Night in Canada.
And then the wizards at the CBC let the theme song get away from them and are now spending more than it would have cost them to keep it to run a contest to come up with the new theme.

 

That was fun. I'll tell you what I want to see. I want to be a fly on the wall as Phil negotiates for a new GT3. "Let's Make a Deal....Porsche style".

 

The Red and Green show!

 

+1 and Murdoch Mysteries are the only Canadian shows I ever watch. Only a matter of time until Yannick Bisson abandons Leaside for Bel Air.

 

[QUOTE=wc11;11048152]I think you've got it completely backwards - there's nothing at all original about HNIC - it follows the same format as every other broadcast sport always has, starting with baseball long before TV came along. It's only stood the test of time because the sport has.

Canada has produced many original and good-to-excellent programs. Road to Avonlea (as much as I can't stand it!) is a good example. SCTV. Let's Make a Deal. The Red Green Show. Air Farce. Being Erica. Those are just a few original shows that have had a good run that come to mind.

 

Yannick Bisson has been in my building many times filiming MM. Neat when they transform our back courtyard into a factory square or docks area and bring in the horse and buggies and other old vehicles. They also filmed Bomb Girls, Handy Man Challenge, Cold Blood, The Kennedys with Greg Kinnear and Tom Wilkonson, as well as numerous movies, videos, commercials, and films here.

For those who have been to my shop, it is a cool building.

 

As far as Canadian shows lets not forget ' Littlest Hobo'.

 

Da Vinci's Inquest was a good show as well.
Hey even the Beachcomber's had a long run, and who can forget The Forest Rangers

 

Well as far as TV goes these days I agree with comments above... the show will be or at least should be short-lived. I remember decades ago US TV game shows "Let's Make a Deal", etc. were giving away new cars and Canadian TV-Game shows gave away frozen pizzas. Anyway the show served its purpose. The word got out in a very public forum that the books exist and that goes a long way towards proving their provenance. You can't claim to have something unique in a public forum, when it's existence was widely acknowledged and sought after by collectors and not have the real thing. Some of the Marilyn Monroe blogs and fan sites are carrying on the conversation.

I set up this mini-site to make sure the books don't disappear into oblivion with me some day.

http://www.marilynsmissingbooks.com

It explains the details and audit trail of the books from Marilyn to me.

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