Posted on 07/12/2014 1:16:15 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
Talk about small world. Enrico Colontoni, the star of that show, was a classmate of mine in elementary school and lived just a block away. I actually envied him when a tobogganing accident kept him out of school for quite some time. His legal name was Enrico but everyone called him Henry.
Enrico has a new show on Global, Remedy, that recently completed its first season. It’s pretty good; he plays the boss of a major downtown hospital with three kids working there as well- a drug-addicted son, a daughter who’s a nurse, and a daughter who’s a Surgeon. You can probably find episodes online at globaltv.com; last time I checked they never took down episodes of shows that they owned outright.
Another good one that ran on Global for two seasons then a two-hour finale a year later was Bomb Girls, about the workers at a WWII munitions plant in Toronto. Uneven but very watchable.
Sounds about right. CTV was the best network in the country until Bell took over, now it’s the worst. Even Rogers-owned CityTV has a more appealing lineup.
He is very good in that show. LOL, I don’t know if it’s such a good idea to have your drug addicted son working at your hospital. I guess a lot of the kids envied him for staying home from school, but it’s good he was OK.
Forgot to mention my favourite- Murdoch Mysteries, a cop show set in 1890s Toronto. The first episode was about the Current Wars, where an Edison demonstration of the dangers of AC power (electrocuting a dog) was sabotaged to kill the person who threw the switch.
The first four seasons ran on CityTV (citytv.com) then it moved to the CBC (cbc.ca). CBC never creates hits, they pick up hits from the private networks and run them about 5 seasons past the sell-by date- SCTV and Red Green are the best-known examples of this. Murdoch has stayed pretty good so far but there has been some PC slipping into it recently so I give it 1-2 more seasons max before it becomes unwatchable.
Yeah, we were all freaked when it happened- he put his foot out while passing a tree and nearly destroyed his leg as a result. I wasn’t there but my neighbour told me about it just after it happened. IIRC we were about eight years old at the time- we were in third grade.
It's interesting to have him use existing materials at hand to anticipate future technologies. The Wild Wild West TV show did this, and of course MacGyver was an expert at using whatever was at hand to develop some awesome weapon or bomb. Murdoch sounds like it combines these elements with a more serious detective plot.
I also like interweaving real historical figures into the story. Historical fiction with a lot of fact is something I like.
Robin Sparkles is sad.
Yikes!
Hubby reminds me that he was in season 1 (I think) of Person of Interest. He was introduced as a mild mannered fellow, but we found out that wasn’t the whole story.
The best was when they used pencil, paper and a grid to get a photograph wired from London.
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