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Post by inuvik on Feb 12, 2008 13:41:19 GMT -5
Not exactly "Fall Season", but a midseason show--close enough. I just had to rave about my new favourite show, Murdoch Mysteries. It started 3 weeks ago and is fantastic! It's a good old fashioned murder mystery series. It has about a minute long opening, which--gasp!--opens the show (what a concept). It is set in Toronto in about the late 1800's--electricity and phones, but also horse and buggy. It stars Yannick Bisson, who used to be on Sue Thomas F.B.Eye (I know some of you know that show). It is so nice to have a proper, dramatic mystery series that isn't a comedy (like Monk, now my second fave show) or primarily about forensics (like CSI). www.citytv.com/micro/murdochmysteries/ |
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Post by mlm828 on Feb 22, 2008 17:11:14 GMT -5
Is anyone else watching the PBS Jane Austen series? This Sunday will be the third part of the 1996 mini-series, Pride and Prejudice. I saw it when it first came out, and it's just as good the second time around. You can never have too much of Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy! ;D
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Post by shmeep on Feb 22, 2008 18:45:08 GMT -5
I've been taping all the Jane Austin movies, but haven't watched them. I'm waiting for the end of April when my parents visit. That's exactly the kind of thing I love to watch with my mom--Dad can watch Jeopardy in the basement if he's bored. I might cheat and watch Mansfield Park, though. I read the book recently and am anxious to see what they did with that movie. I haven't read Northanger Abby in several years and I never did read Persuasion so I don't mind keeping those for my mom's visit--or I might read the books to be ready.
I agree that Pride and Prejudice is amazing. I have it on DVD so I haven't been recording that. I have watched it three times recently and then I watched the recent movie just so I could see again why I felt the movie fell so far short. I still feel that it does after watching it a few days ago. I thought Keira Knightly was lovely and was a good Eliza, but...Elizabeth Erhle (or whatever her last name is) was just so perfect in the miniseries that I don't know why anyone else would even try to play that role. And no one can top Colin Firth's Darcy! Just fabulous.
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Post by inuvik on Mar 15, 2008 13:36:18 GMT -5
I just had to rave about my new favourite show, Murdoch Mysteries. It started 3 weeks ago and is fantastic! It's a good old fashioned murder mystery series. It has about a minute long opening, which--gasp!--opens the show (what a concept). It is set in Toronto in about the late 1800's--electricity and phones, but also horse and buggy. It stars Yannick Bisson, who used to be on Sue Thomas F.B.Eye (I know some of you know that show). It is so nice to have a proper, dramatic mystery series that isn't a comedy (like Monk, now my second fave show) or primarily about forensics (like CSI). www.citytv.com/micro/murdochmysteries/Apparently Murdoch is on the bubble... best Canadian show in years (and that is saying a lot!)....but I did what I could, going to the network and using their comment box to praise it to the skies. Fingers crossed--they made 13 episodes (and we know what that means for a show!  ) and have shown 8, so there is still time! |
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Post by inuvik on May 15, 2008 15:16:17 GMT -5
Not sure if these are all new shows, but here are other cancelled ones without threads:
Cavemen
Carpoolers
Big Shots
October Road
Miss Guided
Cashmere Mafia
Women's Murder Club
Men in Trees
Oprah's Big Give (at her request)
Back to You
The Return of Jezebel James
Shark
Cane
Welcome to the Captain
Las Vegas
Journeyman
Bionic Woman
Girlfriends
Aliens in America
And those are only the ones he mentioned! He says there are plenty of others too.
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) and have shown 8, so there is still time!