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Post by ellie on May 30, 2018 21:09:45 GMT
Do any of you watch this? I came across it recently while channel surfing and now I love it. Just discovered there’s 11 series so I’ve a bit of catching up to do!
I love its humour, it’s quirkiness and the way they weave real people of that time into the stories.
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Post by mllemass on May 30, 2018 22:11:11 GMT
Oh, yes! I've been watching it since it first aired - even before I found out that they film a lot of it in and around the area where I live. I guess there's a bright side to having neighbourhoods that have 19th-century buildings. My church was even in one of the episodes!
A few years ago, when the show was dropped by Citytv and picked up by CBC, CBC did a promotional tour that brought some of its stars to different cities to make personal appearances. One of the stops was in a local shopping mall, and Yannick Bisson (Murdoch) was scheduled to be there. There were stars from several other shows, too. So I headed out early (I thought) on a Saturday morning and found myself at the end of a very long line for autographs. On my way to my spot on line, I came across a co-worker who was close to the start of the line, and we chatted for a bit.
A CBC guy came up to us right after I got in line and told us that we probably wouldn't be able to make it into the autograph area because it was taking longer than they thought. But I decided to stay in line anyway. The woman ahead of me spent the whole time yelling at the people working the event, complaining that she'd come from out of town and would have come earlier if she had known that they had opened the doors hours in advance. As time passed and the line got shorter, they officially broke the news to us that they were closing off the autograph area to new people. To make it up to us, they gave us posters and mugs and other promotional stuff. The woman who was yelling began getting louder, so I left the line and made my way to the cordoned-off area where we could watch the lucky people who made it in. I was happy to take pictures of Yannick/Murdoch from a distance!
Then suddenly, it was my co-worker's turn to go up to him! She said something to him and handed over a piece of paper for him to sign. While he was writing, I shouted out her name and she looked over to me, where I was waving like a lunatic. It was really noisy, so I screamed at her to please get an autograph for me. I watched as he handed her back the paper, and she said to him (I could read her lips) "Can you sign an autograph for my friend over there?", and she pointed to me. He looked at me and I waved at him. He wrote something on a piece of paper, but instead of handing it to my co-worker, he walked over to where I was. I was now freaking out as he held out the paper to me, but then he pulled it back and said "Way to cut in line!". I babbled back something like "No! I was in line for hours! Honest! But they told us they weren't letting anyone else in! Really!" He just smiled and handed me the autograph, and then went back to his table. It was all very exciting!
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Post by ellie on May 30, 2018 22:32:08 GMT
Great story Milemass. Is Yannick Bisson a big star in Canada? Funny thing for me was seeing Thomas Craig who plays Inspector Brekenreid. He used to be in a big UK soap opera (Coronation Street) then after he left was not on UK TV again. I just assumed he’d fallen into ex soap star obscurity. But there he was starring in Murdoch Mysteries. No idea how he ended up working in Canada but he’s great in the role. I’ve also discovered that “Crabtree’s” accent sounds a bit odd to my ears because the actor is from Newfoundland and people from there have a distinctive way of talking. I did not know that so I’ve learned something new already from watching the show. 😀
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Post by mllemass on May 30, 2018 23:08:52 GMT
I think YB is a big star here because of this show, although I think he was a regular on a modern-day Canadian police show years ago - a show I didn't watch. I've never watched Coronation Street, although it's very popular here, but I remember the big fuss they made over Thomas Craig when MM started. He was the show's big star, and I think he was still on CS at the time.
Yes, Crabtree has a very distinct eastern Canada accent! And the actress playing Julia Ogden is Australian, but she does a very good generic North American accent.
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Post by ellie on May 31, 2018 10:35:17 GMT
The Eastern Canadian accent of Crabtree sounds slightly Irish to my ears.
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Post by roverpup on May 31, 2018 11:08:13 GMT
The Eastern Canadian accent of Crabtree sounds slightly Irish to my ears. Dan's mother's family came from Newfoundland and Cape Breton region and were often mistaken for being Irish when the travelled abroad. :-))
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Post by mllemass on May 31, 2018 12:14:53 GMT
I once had a friend who moved to Ontario from Cape Breton Island in hopes of making it in show business (the farthest she got was radio). She said she had to go through voice training to get rid of her accent before anyone would hire her! I accompanied her on trips back home a couple of times, and it felt like I was on a movie set because everyone had those quaint accents I only ever heard on tv or in movies - just like being in NY city sometimes felt like I was in a Woody Allen movie.
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Post by ellie on May 31, 2018 13:55:00 GMT
I ‘m guessing it’s because there were lots of Irish settlers in that area. We get everywhere 😁. What is defined as Eastern Canada because I’ve been to Toronto and Ottawa and I don’t recall the people having that kind of accent.
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Post by roverpup on May 31, 2018 14:28:03 GMT
Eastern Canada is usually defined as the Maritimes region - Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI. Nothing in Ontario or Quebec would be considered being in the “Eastern” region.
:-))
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Post by mllemass on May 31, 2018 14:57:52 GMT
I know people from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia whose families came from Scotland and Ireland. I think that the accents have held on for generations because those provinces have been remote and cut off from the rest of Canada. When I visited Cape Breton Island, the people I met were in awe of my Ontario accent! Ha! Many had never left the island, and saying that I came from the Toronto area was like saying I came from Manhattan. I was considered very exotic!
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