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Post by snacky on Oct 5, 2014 23:07:37 GMT
At home I have a really cool book that's a kind of guide to the Stargate universe. Besides character profiles, the book includes sections on all the paraphernalia, gear, ship classes, aliens and worlds, maps, etc. The book is hardback, nice coffee table sized and printed on slick paper. I can't remember the price, but if I bought it, it must have been under $20.
Murdoch Mysteries takes place in its own historical world. The Open House showed how much paraphernalia and prop "world building" goes into the show. Isn't it time MM offered up its own super geeky guidebook
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Post by mrsbrisby on Oct 7, 2014 4:24:55 GMT
I absolutely agree and will gladly work on one with you.
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Post by shangas on Oct 7, 2014 6:13:20 GMT
Does there exist an MM Wikipedia or guidebook yet? Like a "World of Murdoch" thing?
If not, you're welcome to come to me, if you require any historical background. That's my specialty.
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Post by snacky on Oct 7, 2014 6:39:13 GMT
Does there exist an MM Wikipedia or guidebook yet? Like a "World of Murdoch" thing? If not, you're welcome to come to me, if you require any historical background. That's my specialty. Yes there is an MM wiki. But the thing I'm talking about is a really gorgeous guidebook - sort of a treasure for fans to keep as well as a general "bible" for the show and it's world. The great detail of the Open House makes me think that MM is conducive to a similar treatment. |
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Post by mrsbrisby on Oct 7, 2014 18:11:36 GMT
I see what you are saying about a sleek book, Snacky, but I am thinking more along the lines of a binder with sections like, characters, locations, history, the city, maps, actor bios, and so on. The reason I thought of a binder is to accommodate updates and extra pages could be made available perhaps in downloadable format so people could keep their binders up to date.
Speaking of sleek, classy books, I am also a fan of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and a museum in Melbourne put on an exhibition of Phryne Fisher's costumes. It was very successful and I managed to get a copy of the catalog. It is a gorgeous thing and although its focus is costumes, it made me think that some museum in Canada might mount an exhibit of MM props, costumes, etc. I would purchase a catalog in a heart beat and if they promoted it I'm certain they would draw visitors from a wide geographical area.
I know that we are just throwing ideas around here, and the more the better.
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Post by snacky on Oct 7, 2014 18:19:56 GMT
I see what you are saying about a sleek book, Snacky, but I am thinking more along the lines of a binder with sections like, characters, locations, history, the city, maps, actor bios, and so on. The reason I thought of a binder is to accommodate updates and extra pages could be made available perhaps in downloadable format so people could keep their binders up to date. Speaking of sleek, classy books, I am also a fan of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and a museum in Melbourne put on an exhibition of Phryne Fisher's costumes. It was very successful and I managed to get a copy of the catalog. It is a gorgeous thing and although its focus is costumes, it made me think that some museum in Canada might mount an exhibit of MM props, costumes, etc. I would purchase a catalog in a heart beat and if they promoted it I'm certain they would draw visitors from a wide geographical area. I know that we are just throwing ideas around here, and the more the better. Wow Australia is such a supporter of Miss Fisher! I watched that show once or twice, and I just could not get into it like MM. I do not see why it gets such cadillac treatment when MM does not. I agree with you it would be awesome for a Canadian museum to mount a show with an MM theme. Someone should send a hint! Regarding the book - I meant someone on the MM team should publish one, rather than fans should make one. I would like one for a keepsake. If MM does make one, I just hope it's not too expensive for me to buy. I do hope they make a nice book on slick paper, with say, a large spread on Julia's/Emily's morgue and historic forensic pathology tools. And another section on the hats Julia and Emily may have worn! |
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Post by shangas on Oct 7, 2014 22:33:25 GMT
I live in the city where the Phryne Fisher TV series is filmed, in case anyone forgot. And while they are interesting, and sometimes fun, it's tricky filming period stuff in Australia.
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Post by mrsbrisby on Oct 7, 2014 23:23:19 GMT
I see what you are saying about a sleek book, Snacky, but I am thinking more along the lines of a binder with sections like, characters, locations, history, the city, maps, actor bios, and so on. The reason I thought of a binder is to accommodate updates and extra pages could be made available perhaps in downloadable format so people could keep their binders up to date. Speaking of sleek, classy books, I am also a fan of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and a museum in Melbourne put on an exhibition of Phryne Fisher's costumes. It was very successful and I managed to get a copy of the catalog. It is a gorgeous thing and although its focus is costumes, it made me think that some museum in Canada might mount an exhibit of MM props, costumes, etc. I would purchase a catalog in a heart beat and if they promoted it I'm certain they would draw visitors from a wide geographical area. I know that we are just throwing ideas around here, and the more the better. Wow Australia is such a supporter of Miss Fisher! I watched that show once or twice, and I just could not get into it like MM. I do not see why it gets such cadillac treatment when MM does not. I agree with you it would be awesome for a Canadian museum to mount a show with an MM theme. Someone should send a hint! Regarding the book - I meant someone on the MM team should publish one, rather than fans should make one. I would like one for a keepsake. If MM does make one, I just hope it's not too expensive for me to buy. I do hope they make a nice book on slick paper, with say, a large spread on Julia's/Emily's morgue and historic forensic pathology tools. And another section on the hats Julia and Emily may have worn! Yeah, I know what you mean and I agree about some major coverage of sets and costumes. It would be a great publication for sure. I am thinking along the lines of a handbook for fans. |
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Post by mrsbrisby on Oct 8, 2014 0:14:51 GMT
I live in the city where the Phryne Fisher TV series is filmed, in case anyone forgot. And while they are interesting, and sometimes fun, it's tricky filming period stuff in Australia. Hi Shangas. I think that one of the worst things to befall our cities is the headlong "progress" that destroyed so much of the built environment where our history actually happened. Walking by a modern office building that occupies the site of a monastery, the home of an important person, or the location of an important event does little to evoke the historic atmosphere of the time and is therefore almost impossible to imagine and it seems to me an essential link to our pasts is lost. Don't misunderstand, I am not arguing for our built environment be frozen in time. I do mean that the extremely rapid growth and expansion of our three countries led to ill-considered decisions made in the name of "progess." While certainly not a bad thing, progress has been evoked all too often by greedy businessmen with their eyes on increasing their own wealth while impoverishing the heritage of their own communities. Why do people enjoy going to Europe? Most say because of the history and when you ask what they mean they respond the old buildings and winding streets. For those of us who no longer live in the towns we grew up in, what is the first thing we do when we go back home? We drive by the schools we attended, the hamburger joint we frequented, the house where we lived, the town hall and many other places we hold in or memories. All of us are disappointed when we find that our high school is now a middle school, the hamburger joint is now part of a parking lot, our grandmother's house has been demolished, and the great old brick town hall has been replaced by a glass and steel monstrosity. Our connection to "home" is weakened a little bit each time until many of us no longer feel any connection to our home towns. Similarly, our connections to our history is weakened each time we lose a historic building and its original environment, we lose the physical relationship that exists between us and important places, and that further diminishes our collective memory of and connections to what we were as a community. What is worse, the destruction of buildings too often means the destruction of important memories. The destruction of slave cabins helps obscure the existence of slavery. Almost forty years ago on my first visit to Carter's Grove Plantation outside Willaimsburg, Virginia, I took the tour of the wonderful mansion and and grounds. What was so obviously missing were the slave cabins. The plantation was an economic power house of the time and it was fueled by tobacco which could only have been so profitable with a slave population to do the work. There was a rather feeble attempt to interpret the presence of slaves on the plantation with the construction of two or three slave quarters, but his is barely a ghost of the cabins that had to have been present during the plantation's height. The home has since been sold to private individuals and is no longer open to the public. So it is that most of our cities and many of our towns are difficult to relate to the histories we see in movies or on the TV or that we read about. That's one of the reasons I enjoy MM. Not only do I like the stories, I like the world of turn of the century Toronto it recreates. |
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Post by snacky on Oct 8, 2014 2:31:44 GMT
I live in the city where the Phryne Fisher TV series is filmed, in case anyone forgot. And while they are interesting, and sometimes fun, it's tricky filming period stuff in Australia. Sorry if I'm insulting your national TV show, but I still think Miss Fisher resembles PBS mysteries in pacing and pretentious style, and therefore I just can't get into it. I vastly prefer MM. And since I love MM, I want it to get the same International celebration that Miss Fisher does- including the Museum exhibits. |
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Post by mrsbrisby on Oct 8, 2014 18:06:14 GMT
I live in the city where the Phryne Fisher TV series is filmed, in case anyone forgot. And while they are interesting, and sometimes fun, it's tricky filming period stuff in Australia. Sorry if I'm insulting your national TV show, but I still think Miss Fisher resembles PBS mysteries in pacing and pretentious style, and therefore I just can't get into it. I vastly prefer MM. And since I love MM, I want it to get the same International celebration that Miss Fisher does- including the Museum exhibits. MFMM was nearly cancelled even though it was the most watched show in Australia, and despite the fact that the museum exhibition was a huge success. Regardless of anyone's opinion of the show, the people at the ABC were foolish not to continue with a popular show, just as CBC played cat and mouse about Season 8. As I have said, the shenanigans these networks pull thinking they are increasing interest in their programs is counter-productive as far as I am concerned. Let us hope that someone at the CBC is aware of the MFMM exhibit and will take that particular ball and run with it. As far as promoting MM, I have noticed a few more promos on Ovation. I do not know if they are affiliated with any other networks and could do promos on those or not. The sad thing is the MM people hooked up with Ovation instead of one of the larger cable networks like TNT, Fox, or USA. As I understand it, MM has been picked up in a few more countries and that is all to the good. |
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Post by snacky on Oct 8, 2014 18:15:24 GMT
Sorry if I'm insulting your national TV show, but I still think Miss Fisher resembles PBS mysteries in pacing and pretentious style, and therefore I just can't get into it. I vastly prefer MM. And since I love MM, I want it to get the same International celebration that Miss Fisher does- including the Museum exhibits. MFMM was nearly cancelled even though it was the most watched show in Australia, and despite the fact that the museum exhibition was a huge success. Regardless of anyone's opinion of the show, the people at the ABC were foolish not to continue with a popular show, just as CBC played cat and mouse about Season 8. As I have said, the shenanigans these networks pull thinking they are increasing interest in their programs is counter-productive as far as I am concerned. Let us hope that someone at the CBC is aware of the MFMM exhibit and will take that particular ball and run with it. As far as promoting MM, I have noticed a few more promos on Ovation. I do not know if they are affiliated with any other networks and could do promos on those or not. The sad thing is the MM people hooked up with Ovation instead of one of the larger cable networks like TNT, Fox, or USA. As I understand it, MM has been picked up in a few more countries and that is all to the good. CBC played cat-and-mouse with Season 8? WTF - I didn't even notice!!! I can see how MFMM would be the national show of Australia, just as MM should be the national show of Canada. MM was apparently sold for syndication rights in the US before it hit 100 episodes with ABSOLUTELY NO FANFARE OR ADVERTISEMENT. It has apparently been airing on late night TV ALL OVER THE PLACE, including the Bay Area where I live. But because it is on late night TV, I didn't see it, so I've already missed three weeks. But it is running on a basic network channel here. Mission finally accomplished! I'm envious of this Miss Fisher museum thing, though. I think MM should have that. Pronto. And the shiny geeky guidebook. |
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Post by mrsbrisby on Oct 8, 2014 19:58:25 GMT
MFMM was nearly cancelled even though it was the most watched show in Australia, and despite the fact that the museum exhibition was a huge success. Regardless of anyone's opinion of the show, the people at the ABC were foolish not to continue with a popular show, just as CBC played cat and mouse about Season 8. As I have said, the shenanigans these networks pull thinking they are increasing interest in their programs is counter-productive as far as I am concerned. Let us hope that someone at the CBC is aware of the MFMM exhibit and will take that particular ball and run with it. As far as promoting MM, I have noticed a few more promos on Ovation. I do not know if they are affiliated with any other networks and could do promos on those or not. The sad thing is the MM people hooked up with Ovation instead of one of the larger cable networks like TNT, Fox, or USA. As I understand it, MM has been picked up in a few more countries and that is all to the good. CBC played cat-and-mouse with Season 8? WTF - I didn't even notice!!! I can see how MFMM would be the national show of Australia, just as MM should be the national show of Canada. MM was apparently sold for syndication rights in the US before it hit 100 episodes with ABSOLUTELY NO FANFARE OR ADVERTISEMENT. It has apparently been airing on late night TV ALL OVER THE PLACE, including the Bay Area where I live. But because it is on late night TV, I didn't see it, so I've already missed three weeks. But it is running on a basic network channel here. Mission finally accomplished! I'm envious of this Miss Fisher museum thing, though. I think MM should have that. Pronto. And the shiny geeky guidebook. Well, I understand how easy it is to miss the clever way the CBC toys with us viewers, but if you pay close attention you will soon learn their devious ways. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO jealous. As soon as I read your post I went on a mad search of all my tv stations and there are other channels showing MM, but only Season 2. This is infuriating. How could you have missed three weeks when the first episode of Season 8 wasn't broadcast until Monday? Oh well, just think of me pining away with no Season 8 on my television machine. Sad, sad, sad. |
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Post by snacky on Oct 8, 2014 20:45:55 GMT
CBC played cat-and-mouse with Season 8? WTF - I didn't even notice!!! I can see how MFMM would be the national show of Australia, just as MM should be the national show of Canada. MM was apparently sold for syndication rights in the US before it hit 100 episodes with ABSOLUTELY NO FANFARE OR ADVERTISEMENT. It has apparently been airing on late night TV ALL OVER THE PLACE, including the Bay Area where I live. But because it is on late night TV, I didn't see it, so I've already missed three weeks. But it is running on a basic network channel here. Mission finally accomplished! I'm envious of this Miss Fisher museum thing, though. I think MM should have that. Pronto. And the shiny geeky guidebook. Well, I understand how easy it is to miss the clever way the CBC toys with us viewers, but if you pay close attention you will soon learn their devious ways. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO jealous. As soon as I read your post I went on a mad search of all my tv stations and there are other channels showing MM, but only Season 2. This is infuriating. How could you have missed three weeks when the first episode of Season 8 wasn't broadcast until Monday? Oh well, just think of me pining away with no Season 8 on my television machine. Sad, sad, sad. I meant I missed three weeks of the reruns! And I even wrote local TV stations just last weeks asking if we could have the syndicated reruns just like Atlanta! But we already had them! I just didn't know because they are on late at night, and it's hard to tell what's on TV any more unless someone tells you where to look. By the way I've already written the Royal Ontario Museum with my little suggestion. Here is their contact page: www.rom.on.ca/en/about-us/contact-usThe best way to find ALL the local stations showing the syndicated reruns of MM in your area is to use TVGuide.com. You can search the "Antenna" option and take down the actual channel numbers, and then you can search by cable/satellite provider for their channel numbers as well. I just can't believe that Shaftsbury wasn't trumpeting major syndication deal announcements all over the place! Haven't people in the US been Whiiiiiiiiiiiiiining about not being able to access MM legally? Now we can! But we don't know about it because the episodes are on super late at night (we have to record them), and Shaftsbury didn't bother to tell us! |
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Post by Hodge on Oct 8, 2014 21:15:15 GMT
Well, I understand how easy it is to miss the clever way the CBC toys with us viewers, but if you pay close attention you will soon learn their devious ways. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO jealous. As soon as I read your post I went on a mad search of all my tv stations and there are other channels showing MM, but only Season 2. This is infuriating. How could you have missed three weeks when the first episode of Season 8 wasn't broadcast until Monday? Oh well, just think of me pining away with no Season 8 on my television machine. Sad, sad, sad. Are you in Canada? I thought you were in Aus. I'm in Canada and I don't see where the cat and mouse was with CBC. They were upfront about renewing MM for an 8th season before the 7th finished but I think we all figured they would anyway. They don't announce their decisions until late in the season, it's always been that way. What was the point of buying it if they weren't going to continue it beyond two more seasons especially as it's their #1 show. Just don't get what you mean by this. |
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