FORKNI-L
Digest - 10 Jun 2013 to 11 Jun 2013 (#2013-82)
Tue, 11 Jun 2013
There are 3 messages totaling 68 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Canada in non-Canadian dramatic television (WAS: Re: Dark Knight...again)
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:27:03 -0400
From: Nick Chase <nchase@e.......>
Subject: Re: Canada in non-Canadian dramatic television (WAS: Re: Dark Knight...again)
On 6/9/2013 11:41 PM, Libby A. Smith wrote:
> Since it was a Canadian based tv series and wasn't most of the cast and crew
> thus Canadian, wouldn't mistakes like that get caught?
Unless someone had tried to sell their blood and failed, they might not
know that it's not possible in Canada, even if they lived there.
---- Nick
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 03:46:54 +0000
From: nancykam@c.......
Subject: Re: Canada in non-Canadian dramatic television (WAS: Re: Dark Knight...again)
On 6/9/2013 11:41 PM, Libby A. Smith wrote:
> Since it was a Canadian based tv series and wasn't most of the cast and crew
> thus Canadian, wouldn't mistakes like that get caught?
More realistically, they had a script that was heavily based on the US version
and they weren't going to rewrite an important plot point. Plus, the show was
being marketed to the US market, and it was pretty certain that the finer
points of Canadian blood bank policy weren't going to be important to them.
Nancy Kaminski
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:30:09 -0400
From: L McDavid <mclisa1014@g.......>
Subject: Re: Canada in non-Canadian dramatic television (WAS: Re: Dark Knight...again)
>On 6/9/2013 11:41 PM, Libby A. Smith wrote:
> Since it was a Canadian based tv series and wasn't most of the cast and crew
> thus Canadian, wouldn't mistakes like that get caught?
They weren't allowed to catch mistakes. I had a chance to ask John
Kapelos at a con and yes, he did remember that he'sdhad that long
speech in one episode about the death of Myra's mother. Then when he
had a line next season about Myra's being in Florida with her mother,
the producer on-set insisted he say it. They'd have had to wake
someone up to change it and they wouldn't. The guy told JK that the
viewers wouldn't remember that Myra's mother was supposed to be dead.
<snort>
So the fact that you couldn't sell a blood donation in Canada was
ignored. So was the fact that the Toronto police are organized
differently as to structure and rank.
Ger and Nigel said at their first con appearance, Toronto Trek, that
they were proud to be part of the first show filmed in Canada for the
US market which admitted it was in Canada. The network had agreed
because it was cheaper not to have to worry things like changing
signs, etc. to look like the U.S.
McLisa (Lisa McDavid)
"That will be trouble."
listowner, Forkni-l & Fkfic-l
mclisa1014@g.......
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