Here's a piece of Canadiana. My friend NSL and I are avid fans of the Canadian TV show Da Vinci's Inquest. Da Vinci, played by Nicholas Campbell (who played the corrupt, killer cop in Cronenburg's Dead Zone), is this Columbo-style coroner only he's hot, he's off the booze and he's got a big social conscience (his main platform is safe injection sites). The show is set in Vancouver and the stories are intricate, political, and complicated like a British cop-show. Not only that, the character of Da Vinci is modelled after the real-life, left-wing mayor of Vancouver, Larry Campbell (he used to be the coroner). How often do you get good fun drama based on contemporary, honest-to-god real life? Okay, so now I must admit that Da Vinci's Inquest is an acquired taste. The acting is really really mannered. There's this old-fashioned, stilted, CBC-drama, Candian-cliché style of acting that's terrible and that I think is caused by a sad and sorry lack of conviction. Da Vinci's Inquest sounds like that at first, but this mannered style, while initially unnerving, is clearly intentional. Da Vinici is pure conviction, rollicking fiction, based-on-real-life, leftwing suspense. A crazy hybrid, and I love it . Yet besides NSL (who got me hooked) I barely know anyone else who likes it even a little bit. The show's 9pm Sunday night time slot is apparently up for grabs, and Da Vinci gets pre-empted by everything from Christmas specials to professional figure skating. So... whence came this Queen West (hip downtown Toronto) poster campaign? I get that there's a cult following, but I thought there were only two of us...and we count as old ladies if you're invoking cults.
Hey, I saw these as well on a recent walk down Queen St. I kept looking around for movie vans and trailers, I was sure it was part of a set for the show. Then after blocks and blocks of these posters I realized that no Canadian production could have a budget that big!
My first thought was that it was a sort of ironic DIY fanzine-poster campaign. I was thinking: who made all these great art posters about Da Vinci?
Our friend Anna says that nobody in Toronto watches Da Vinci's Inquest but "probably people in Nova Scotia watch it." I dunno, she might be right. I bet they watch it in Vancouver!
I saw the female lead having lunch in a restaurant in Stratford (Ontario) with her son, a couple of years ago. He was about 14, and looked supremely uncomfortable with having a recognizable mom. Not that this has anything to do with anything.
i think it is the production campaign. a few years back
there was a fund created specifically for the
advertisement of cdn television shows. i don't know for
sure but i bet these posters are a result of that money.
It's a postering campaign for his next show called 'Chief'.
iTink.
Da Vinci is right up there with coronation street in our household. It's real, man. Hey you queen streeters, maybe you can pull one of those fab posters off of one of those there polls for me...please!!
consider it done.
thanks!
you the best.
Well, it was some other series (from which I spotted the actor in the restaurant). I saw enough of Da Vinci the other night to know that. Same guy, different woman.
So as well as being irrelevant, I was wrong. Whiich is the more egregious error?
I saw the guy actually putting these up the other day. He was wearing a chemical suit with gas mask.
Cool! Love the show. Go Da Vinci!
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Here's a piece of Canadiana. My friend NSL and I are avid fans of the Canadian TV show Da Vinci's Inquest. Da Vinci, played by Nicholas Campbell (who played the corrupt, killer cop in Cronenburg's Dead Zone), is this Columbo-style coroner only he's hot, he's off the booze and he's got a big social conscience (his main platform is safe injection sites). The show is set in Vancouver and the stories are intricate, political, and complicated like a British cop-show. Not only that, the character of Da Vinci is modelled after the real-life, left-wing mayor of Vancouver, Larry Campbell (he used to be the coroner). How often do you get good fun drama based on contemporary, honest-to-god real life? Okay, so now I must admit that Da Vinci's Inquest is an acquired taste. The acting is really really mannered. There's this old-fashioned, stilted, CBC-drama, Candian-cliché style of acting that's terrible and that I think is caused by a sad and sorry lack of conviction. Da Vinci's Inquest sounds like that at first, but this mannered style, while initially unnerving, is clearly intentional. Da Vinici is pure conviction, rollicking fiction, based-on-real-life, leftwing suspense. A crazy hybrid, and I love it . Yet besides NSL (who got me hooked) I barely know anyone else who likes it even a little bit. The show's 9pm Sunday night time slot is apparently up for grabs, and Da Vinci gets pre-empted by everything from Christmas specials to professional figure skating. So... whence came this Queen West (hip downtown Toronto) poster campaign? I get that there's a cult following, but I thought there were only two of us...and we count as old ladies if you're invoking cults.
- sally mckay 1-20-2004 7:50 am
Hey, I saw these as well on a recent walk down Queen St. I kept looking around for movie vans and trailers, I was sure it was part of a set for the show. Then after blocks and blocks of these posters I realized that no Canadian production could have a budget that big!
- m. nobody (guest) 1-21-2004 2:28 am
My first thought was that it was a sort of ironic DIY fanzine-poster campaign. I was thinking: who made all these great art posters about Da Vinci?
Our friend Anna says that nobody in Toronto watches Da Vinci's Inquest but "probably people in Nova Scotia watch it." I dunno, she might be right. I bet they watch it in Vancouver!
- sally mckay 1-21-2004 8:42 am
I saw the female lead having lunch in a restaurant in Stratford (Ontario) with her son, a couple of years ago. He was about 14, and looked supremely uncomfortable with having a recognizable mom. Not that this has anything to do with anything.
- Jean (guest) 1-21-2004 4:18 pm
i think it is the production campaign. a few years back
there was a fund created specifically for the
advertisement of cdn television shows. i don't know for
sure but i bet these posters are a result of that money.
- nanmac (guest) 1-21-2004 6:48 pm
It's a postering campaign for his next show called 'Chief'.
iTink.
- Tino (guest) 1-22-2004 11:40 pm
Da Vinci is right up there with coronation street in our household. It's real, man. Hey you queen streeters, maybe you can pull one of those fab posters off of one of those there polls for me...please!!
- laurie (guest) 1-23-2004 7:55 pm
consider it done.
- sally mckay 1-23-2004 7:59 pm
thanks!
you the best.
- laurie (guest) 1-23-2004 8:32 pm
Well, it was some other series (from which I spotted the actor in the restaurant). I saw enough of Da Vinci the other night to know that. Same guy, different woman.
So as well as being irrelevant, I was wrong. Whiich is the more egregious error?
- Jean (guest) 1-24-2004 8:48 am
I saw the guy actually putting these up the other day. He was wearing a chemical suit with gas mask.
- Timothy (guest) 1-26-2004 9:34 am
Cool! Love the show. Go Da Vinci!
- C.K. (guest) 3-08-2005 4:53 am
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