Da Vinci's City Hall
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Da Vinci's City Hall is a Canadian dramatic television series, which premiered on CBC Television on 25 October 2005. The series is a spinoff of the long-running Canadian series Da Vinci's Inquest. The creator, writer and executive producer of the series was Chris Haddock.
Overview
Nicholas Campbell reprises his role as Dominic Da Vinci, a former coroner entering municipal politics as the mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia. Da Vinci is based on the real-life experiences of Larry Campbell, the former chief coroner of Vancouver who was elected that city's mayor in 2002.With the series regular Ian Tracey (playing Mick Leary) inheriting the coroner's job, the show toggles back and forth between crime scenes and politics. Haddock says: My approach was to make all the political stuff criminal and all the criminal stuff political. When we're in city hall we're really about conspiracy and scheming, who's crooked and who's going to get caught.
Cancellation
With an average weekly audience of just 400,000 viewers, Da Vinci's City Hall lost about half of the former audience for Da Vinci's Inquest. On February 13, 2006, the CBC announced that the show would not be brought back for a second season in 2006, although they also indicated that negotiations were underway to reprise the Da Vinci character in a series of television movies, similar to the manner in which North of 60 continued after its run as a weekly series had ended.
The show's final episode was aired on February 28, 2006.
Fans of the show have set up an [online petition] to try to convince the CBC to change its mind about cancelling the series.
Cast
- Nicholas Campbell
- Mylene Dinh-Robic
- Benjamin Ratner
- Ian Tracey
- Venus Terzo
- Brian Markinson
- Stephen E. Miller
- Evan Adams
- Patrick Gallagher
Episode guide
| # | Title | Airdate | Director | Writer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zero to Sixty Pretty Quick | 25 Oct 05 | Nicholas Campbell | Chris Haddock |
| 2 | Cat in a Tree, Lunatic in the Street | 01 Nov 05 | Charles Martin Smith | Chris Haddock |
| 3 | Isn't Very Pretty But You Can Smoke It | 08 Nov 05 | Stefan Pleszczynski | Chris Haddock and Jesse McKeown |
| 4 | One Man Two Jobs | 15 Nov 05 | Charles Martin Smith | Chris Haddock and Jesse McKeown |
| 5 | Put Down the Hose, Pick Up a Gun | 22 Nov 05 | Stefan Pleszczynski | Chris Haddock |
| 6 | You Have to Bleed a Little | 29 Nov 05 | Monika Mitchell | Chris Haddock |
| 7 | Ready to Call in the Horses | 06 Dec 05 | Stephen Surjik | Chris Haddock |
| 8 | Gonna Cause a Ruckus | 10 Jan 06 | Stuart Margolin | Chris Haddock and Jesse McKeown |
| 9 | Gotta Press the Flesh | 17 Jan 06 | Charles Martin Smith | Jesse McKeown |
| 10 | When the Horsemen Come Looking | 24 Jan 06 | Sturla Gunnarsson | Sylvia Leung |
| 11 | A Few Good Bites Before They Slap Me Down | 31 Jan 06 | David Frazee | Chris Haddock |
| 12 | Bumped from the ball | 7 Feb 06 | Sturla Gunnarsson | Jesse McKeown and Sylvia Leung |
| 13 | The Dogs in Sympathy with the Cats | 28 Feb 06 | Stephen Surjik | Sylvia Leung and Hiro Kanagawa |
External links
- [Official website www.davinciscityhall.com]
- [CBC's webpage for Da Vinci's City Hall] Some info about upcoming episode(s).
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