On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

So it's finally happened.

I was kind of hoping he'd live just long enough to be in an Alpha Flight movie. I don't know which character would have been a good fit, mind you...

And for the record, I did get to meet him once, at the Magnetic North festival. I thanked him for Bob Fraser (Due South) and Duff McArdle (Power Play).

https://www.cbc.ca/1.6760868

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/david-suzuki-retires-the-nature-of-things-1.6625011

I can't remember a time when Dr. Suzuki wasn't hosting/narrating The Nature of Things on CBC's English-language TV division. This, despite the fact that he was not the series' first host.

Well, it's my expectation that he will not be the last host of the series, either. This, despite his longevity in that role across the decades. CBC has a number of qualified people already on the payroll to fill the gap. I'm leaning in favour of Nicole Mortillaro. They will do well together, given the chance.

CBC will do as it will do, of course, regardless of my opinion...

In case anyone's interested?

https://twitter.com/CornerGas/status/1562580518050271232

https://regina.ctvnews.ca/dog-river-rebuilt-corner-gas-lego-set-submitted-for-support-1.6038832

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/adf5c562-6a7d-4181-94a3-7e96d3d6851f

We've lost the Dog River grain elevator by fire.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/corner-gas-grain-elevator-fire-1.6238606


Funeral music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFg3MlXhNKQ

And this death is confirmed now.

The first cartoon voice of Spider-Man has left the Bugle Building for the last time.

And as we know from the obituary, he'd done so much else as well across the decades. I saw some of that work too.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theglobeandmail/obituary.aspx?pid=198832054

Seems like this matters. Hoping they can hold the awards ceremonies safely!

https://www.tv-eh.com/2021/03/30/nominations-announced-for-the-2021-canadian-screen-awards/

The ending of last night's episode really twisted a knife in my heart.

Fifteen minutes into Coroner tonight, and already the waterworks almost started twice.

Shocked that they managed to keep Nicholas Campbell in the cast for at least this episode.

Surreal and funereal.

More as it goes...

And another piece of childhood TV goes away for me.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/howie-meeker-death-hockey-night-in-canada-nhl-1.5794606

Age 97, though, hm?

So, Transplant is getting picked up by NBC for US broadcast.

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/nbc-transplant-ctv-1234606881/

And Coroner is getting picked up by the CW Network.

https://www.tv-eh.com/2020/05/12/cineflix-rights-sells-coroner-to-the-cw-network/

Both of those...they're both medical dramas of different kinds. Coroner also doubles as mystery/crime fiction. I'm not sure how they'll fit onto US broadcast schedules. Transplant, which started up on CTV, with its pro-refugee/immigration perspective. That, I'm sure, will enrage the reich-wingers in the US once the word gets out. Coroner started out on CBC, our Crown-owned public broadcaster, and is a woman's-perspective show, and it does not shy away from showing broken people being broken and trying to heal themselves and one another.

And both series depict life in different aspects of Toronto as itself, as its own place. Not pretending to be anywhere else.

If you're looking for different things from your TV-watching than you've had up to now, then do consider these two series.