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moonvoiceWell, aside from a few clumsy lines (both written and delivered) in the pilot episode, I am quite intrigued by new fantasy/sci fi television drama entrant Lost Girl, made by Canadian producers Showcase. I found it endearing, interesting, and one more show in a long line of 2010 shows to feature supes. It had some great, immediate accessibility in character Kenzi, and some very cute lines.
Considering I turned off Hellcats in less than 10 minutes (hey, Gale Harold is going to be in it later, I still might download those episodes just for him), it's nice to find a new show which looks interesting (though this season's line up? There's some others I'm looking forward to as well). Also, Dark Fae? Light Fae? A main character who's a succubus? Two female leads? Bring it on, bitches. Works for me.
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Geez, Australian media sucks when compared even to Canada's media, and that's just sad, since we get similar funding and support in both nations for our film and television production units. Also, Australia has the tech - has always had the tech, especially since the first Matrix - to really do wild things with supernatural themes. Even more so than Canada. Does it? Pfft. No.
We are like the most unimaginative country ever. You couldn't even pitch a supe-drama here, even though they are selling like hot-cakes everywhere else. It just disappoints me, after all this time. It's hard to support a lacklustre industry. And a lot of it isn't lack of funding. Some of it is just lack of imagination, Australia's culture of media insecurity seeping into film-making in particular (it works well in literature, if you can handle the similarities in tone between writers like Carey and Winton). But then, it's unsurprising. We have one of the worst rates of media censorship in the Western world ever. We still ban films like Salo (unbanned it, changed our minds, too sensitive for our sheltered viewers, sorry!).
It is a deeply, deeply oppressive environment for any media show to get made (yes, there are more oppressive environments, but not many to be found in the Western world). Those who do stick to fairly basic (but not always bad) affair, usually involving some kind of formulaic procedural (Blue Heelers, McCleod's Daughters (which did crazy insane in the ratings when it was shipped off to North Asia), White Collar Blue, All Saints, Water Rats, Wildside immediately come to mind). Maybe it's just me, but I want something way more imaginative. Or at least the choice.
Anyway, didn't expect to be writing about this at 9.00am!
Considering I turned off Hellcats in less than 10 minutes (hey, Gale Harold is going to be in it later, I still might download those episodes just for him), it's nice to find a new show which looks interesting (though this season's line up? There's some others I'm looking forward to as well). Also, Dark Fae? Light Fae? A main character who's a succubus? Two female leads? Bring it on, bitches. Works for me.
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Geez, Australian media sucks when compared even to Canada's media, and that's just sad, since we get similar funding and support in both nations for our film and television production units. Also, Australia has the tech - has always had the tech, especially since the first Matrix - to really do wild things with supernatural themes. Even more so than Canada. Does it? Pfft. No.
We are like the most unimaginative country ever. You couldn't even pitch a supe-drama here, even though they are selling like hot-cakes everywhere else. It just disappoints me, after all this time. It's hard to support a lacklustre industry. And a lot of it isn't lack of funding. Some of it is just lack of imagination, Australia's culture of media insecurity seeping into film-making in particular (it works well in literature, if you can handle the similarities in tone between writers like Carey and Winton). But then, it's unsurprising. We have one of the worst rates of media censorship in the Western world ever. We still ban films like Salo (unbanned it, changed our minds, too sensitive for our sheltered viewers, sorry!).
It is a deeply, deeply oppressive environment for any media show to get made (yes, there are more oppressive environments, but not many to be found in the Western world). Those who do stick to fairly basic (but not always bad) affair, usually involving some kind of formulaic procedural (Blue Heelers, McCleod's Daughters (which did crazy insane in the ratings when it was shipped off to North Asia), White Collar Blue, All Saints, Water Rats, Wildside immediately come to mind). Maybe it's just me, but I want something way more imaginative. Or at least the choice.
Anyway, didn't expect to be writing about this at 9.00am!
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Date: 2010-09-14 01:32 am (UTC)I'm actually so surprised that my little city is becoming such a center for movies, media and TV shows being produced. But there are crazy awesome grants for people who bring productions here (if you hire a certain percentage of local people) and it's SO much cheaper shooting here than in more Southern parts of Ontario. Need to close a road in Toronto? Several hundred or thousands of dollars. Close a road here? Tell the city and put up your own signs.
Still, I'm amazed. It's pretty weird and awesome.
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Date: 2010-09-14 02:26 am (UTC)Not getting any better either. A lot of it is funding, but not all of it is. It doesn't help that the Australian audience mostly wants to watch shows that celebrate actual criminal behaviour, like Underbelly (something I find personally deplorable, but oh well, you can't help it when we're a nation of convicts essentially who celebrate assholes like Ned Kelly).
Yeah there are tons of benefits to shooting in quieter places like Canada. Same for Australia too, where movies like Where the Wild Things Are were shot (you can tell, all the trees are eucalyptus trees, which is awesome). We just don't really take advantage of it ourselves, unfortunately.