http://abc.go.com/watch/rookie-blue/SH55..._rkb_fep_b
Has anyone else seen this show? I really like it. Since I have been a L&O fan for many years. Its sort of fun to watch how cops first get started into the life.
And I really like how this show is playing out.
I hope someone else here enjoys it too?
Love it! Yet another show filmed in Toronto but sold as an American show.
I really like it.
Like "The Bridge" and "Flashpoint" - all are filmed in T.O. but have been picked up by US networks. Great. Good for us.
Yay Toronto - Yay Canada.
Cool, I am glad there is one show your able to see.
I am not real good at remembering names on all the characters.
Especially since I have added so many new shows to my viewing roster. But when that lady cop had to play a hooker to trap some johns. And that bad ass told her she was a dog. That really shook her to the core. I bet, no one ever called that beauty a dog before.
That just goes to show you that real "beauty IS in the eye of the beholder"
But anyway, I am glad they got the bad guy in the end.
Notice how they try to make it look like Chicago, except you know it isn't because the hats are wrong?
(07-16-2010 11:17 PM)eslbee Wrote: [ -> ]Notice how they try to make it look like Chicago, except you know it isn't because the hats are wrong?
LOL are they? I am sorry I am not into details about hats. Besides I am from Cleveland, so I would never know the difference anyway
I'm from New York. Chigago police wear a distinctive black and white checkerboard hatband.
I don't know that they're trying to make it look like anything other than what it is: Toronto.
They use Canadian money, show Toronto landmarks (such as the CN Tower) and use Toronto street names and neighbourhoods.
(07-17-2010 08:56 AM)NKBurlington Wrote: [ -> ]I don't know that they're trying to make it look like anything other than what it is: Toronto.
They use Canadian money, show Toronto landmarks (such as the CN Tower) and use Toronto street names and neighbourhoods.
Wow talk about observant, I never even noticed the money, lol
Good job! Hey I love Canada been there over a dozen times in my lifetime. I think its great, Go Canada!
Our money is all different colours so it's pretty easy to distinguish between Canadian and US money as yours is all the same colour.
Ours is prettier
(07-17-2010 12:28 PM)NKBurlington Wrote: [ -> ]Our money is all different colours so it's pretty easy to distinguish between Canadian and US money as yours is all the same colour.
Ours is prettier
Can't argue that, cause it sure is!
I can't wait for next weeks show
And I hope this show sticks around for a while as well.
I saw the "Sears" tower in one shot. Now I want to look for more footage from other cities.
Your money IS prettier. Everything Canadian is better.
(07-17-2010 01:40 PM)eslbee Wrote: [ -> ]I saw the "Sears" tower in one shot. Now I want to look for more footage from other cities.
Your money IS prettier. Everything Canadian is better.
Not to mention that everything Canadian is CLEANER too.
I never saw such a cleaner city then I did when we visited Toronto.
I was very impressed indeed. Of course that was years ago. So I am hoping nothing has changed in
that respect.
Now for sure I will pay attention to the background of next weeks show.
Sounds like a good show.
I am so out of the loop when it comes to all of these great show that everyone watches.
Well, except for The Good Wife and Southland. I really enjoyed them.
(07-17-2010 01:52 PM)Truckerswife Wrote: [ -> ] (07-17-2010 01:40 PM)eslbee Wrote: [ -> ]I saw the "Sears" tower in one shot. Now I want to look for more footage from other cities.
Your money IS prettier. Everything Canadian is better.
Not to mention that everything Canadian is CLEANER too.
I never saw such a cleaner city then I did when we visited Toronto.
I was very impressed indeed. Of course that was years ago. So I am hoping nothing has changed in
that respect.
Now for sure I will pay attention to the background of next weeks show.
Funny you should mention that.
A few years ago - well, 20 actually - there was a show called "Night Heat" that was filmed in Toronto. It was not supposed to be Toronto but rather a major undisclosed US city.
The crew actually had to place garbage in the streets to make it look messy because T.O. was so clean. They once put garbage in the street for a scene but when they returned, the garbage was gone! Some one had picked it up.
I have no idea if that's the case nowadays. Although I visit T.O. several times a year, it's usually in the theatre district and it's quite clean.
Yep, us funny Americans! I, too, assumed the show was supposed to be set in the USA, but when I went online, I see it's set in an anonymous Canadian city. My bad, too!
(07-17-2010 04:30 PM)PrairieGirl Wrote: [ -> ]Yep, us funny Americans! I, too, assumed the show was supposed to be set in the USA, but when I went online, I see it's set in an anonymous Canadian city. My bad, too!
I should have realized it was meant to be Canadian because they aren't always harassing, insulting and objectifying women.
But Canadians pursuing prostitutes? Q'uelle horror!
(07-16-2010 08:08 PM)NKBurlington Wrote: [ -> ]Like "The Bridge" and "Flashpoint" - all are filmed in T.O. but have been picked up by US networks. Great. Good for us.
Yay Toronto - Yay Canada.
I'm watching The Bridge because it's Aaron Douglas's show, he was on Battlestar Galactica and DH and I met and chatted with him for some time a few years ago and found him to be a very likable person. We like his acting, too.
I was hoping that since The Bridge was first shown in Canada as a Canadian show, that it would be the first time a real Canadian show really set in Toronto would be shown in the US. But I should have known that couldn't be true, the show is also produced by CBS, so they have to pretend they're in some random American city and Americans are too untravelled and uneducated to figure out which one. It's not like Due South, filmed in Toronto but pretending to be Chicago, The Bridge setting is a random American city with random big buildings and it's kind of insulting to not just say it's Toronto, as if tiny American brains just couldn't handle it.
I guess I just assumed everyone knows these shows are Canadian because they do mention streets and neighbourhoods by name but I guess if you don't recognize the names, you just assume it's an American city.
You did notice the Canadian money thought, right?
The Bridge is an awesome show!
NKB, I honestly didn't notice ANY money. Or I saw what I expected to see because I'm conditioned.
Hey, why CAN'T they say it's Canada? I don't see any problem.
(07-21-2010 03:10 PM)eslbee Wrote: [ -> ]NKB, I honestly didn't notice ANY money. Or I saw what I expected to see because I'm conditioned.
Hey, why CAN'T they say it's Canada? I don't see any problem.
There isn't a problem, at least not to me as a fairly well-traveled and educated American, but they never, ever do say it's Canada. I guess Hollywood producers assume the brain dead American public wouldn't care about a show not set in America and they wouldn't bother watching. LOST was on a random island, that's true, and there were scenes set in many countries around the world, but LA was the anchor city, I don't think they could have it any other way. Do you know of any series on network TV (not cable) in the US ever officially set in another country?
When I lived in the UK, all their network series were set in the UK or Ireland. They certainly aired foreign shows made in other countries, but their own shows that were British productions were all set and filmed in the UK or Ireland.