Conference ljsrv1::tv_chatter

    
    
    Hi Sandy!  Remember me?
    
    
    Due South was actually on a few months ago as a filler movie.  I
    thought it was o.k. and had some potential.  I loved the "wolf" that
    Paul Gross' character has as a partner.  Unfortunately I think they
    will have to stick to a lot of typical "city folk" vs. "Outdoorsie
    folk" cliches but I'll watch an episode or two.
    
    Serena
    

    This was actually a 2nd run of the "Premier".  I had seen it earlier in
    the year.  I enjoyed it just as much!

    I missed the movie when it first came out, so I was pleasantly
    surprised when I watched this last week.  There are some typical
    stereotypes which I hope they use as comic relief and don't let get in
    the way of the story.  
    
    Nice to see Boston's own David Marciano get a role where he doesn't
    play a crazed killer!  
    
    NAZZ

    I missed the movie, but caught the show last night.  Thought it was OK
    - had potential.  One question though after the form feed:
    
    Why do the Canadians hate the guy?  And why was he sent back to the
    Canadian Consulate in Chicago?
    
    Thanks -
    Barb

    One answer:
    
    
    
    He turned in a bad Canadian cop, ie one of his own.
    No one in Canada would take him after that. In fact, the only
    organization that would take him was in Chicago.

    I thought last night's show was terrific.  It takes a lot to get me not
    to watch the luscious Helen Hunt, but Due South did it.  The plot was
    good, the interplay between the two sets of detectives was terrific,
    and the kid was smart but not smarmy, like a lot of TV kids.  I could
    have done without the trip through the park, but at least the bad guys
    got away then.  Diefenbaker (sp?) is great, too.
    
    NAZZ

    
    I like this too!  I really like Diefenbacher, so does my dog Simba. 
    It's funny, when Deifen barks, Simba runs to the tv and watches what
    ever Diefen does.
    
    I think it's funny how they have so many jokes that are just casually
    put in the script and just come out naturally.
    
    I hope this show continues on it's path and makes it through at least
    the first cut of new shows.
    
    

Just a couple of comments about the show:

I watched it for the first time last night, and it took me about
20 seconds to tell that the show is filmed in Canada (Toronto). At the
start of the show you could see a "Canadian Tire" sign off in the distance.
You could only see it for about 2 seconds and it was out of focus, so the
untrained eye might not have seen this.

Diefenbaker was a Canadian Prime Minister in the late 50's.  All I know is
that my dad saw him walking a dog outside 24 Sussex, but he forgets what kind 
it was.

Mackenzie King was also a Canadian Prime Minister.  His claim to fame
was that his advisors were his dog, and his dead mother.

If I spot any more Canadian things, I'll post them.

Mike

    Leslie Neilson is suppose to guest star in an upcoming episode...
    interesting... TV Guides interview says that LN's father was a
    Mountie...
    
    Michael

    
    
    There is a two hour movie episode on this Friday.  I was beginning to
    wonder if this show had disappeared totally.  I'll be happy to watch on
    Friday (or at least tape Friday and watch later).
    
    Is this coming back next fall?
    
    

    The bad word is that "Due South"  has been cancelled for next year.
    
    This episonde was scheduled at an earlier date but was pre-empted at
    the time.
    
    I have sent my complaint letter to CBS about the way they pre-empted
    this series for everything that came along and to complain about it 
    being cancelled, but I am not expecting anything to come of my letter.
    
    Interestingly, I read in the paper several months ago that this series is 
    highly regarded in Canada and up for a few Emmy-equivalents there, but that
    did not seem to matter to CBS, either.
    
    

RE                     <<< Note 295.11 by CSC32::MA_BAKER >>>

>    Interestingly, I read in the paper several months ago that this series is 
>    highly regarded in Canada and up for a few Emmy-equivalents there, but that
>    did not seem to matter to CBS, either.
    
  This is no surprise since CBS does not have any affiliates up in Canada and
even those who pick up signals from across the boarder don't really interest
American advertisers.

  But given the interest, perhaps it would make sense of the CBC picked it
up.

  George

    I don't think Due South was really cancelled.  CBS decided not to show
    it anymore, but I believe that CTV (in Canada) intends to show it still.  
    The show is a Canadian production that CBS was buying.  
    
    Mike.

    Is CTV on satellite?  I might just have to buy a dish. 
    
    The next in  the series follows up from the 2 hour episode shown last 
    Friday and it is scheduled this Friday on CBS.
    
    Lucky Colorado Springs gets to have the Billy Graham Crusade instead.
    So when someone who lives somewhere that gets it, sees it  .... please 
    please please, post a really thorough synopsis.  I don't want to go 
    through the rest of my life wondering what happened next.
    
    My little sister is on Prodigy - unfortunately I am not - and she tells me 
    there is a long string of discussion about "Due South" (both Canadian and 
    American) and what we saw last Friday night was a much different show from 
    what they showed in Canada a while back.
    
    I suppose that they are getting the USA audience prepared for the show's 
    demise, so it had to be different.  But I for one would sure rather see 
    it go out with the same clever sense of humour and light hearted feel 
    that it has had all along.
    
    Or maybe it was "In Your Face, CBS" for not picking it back up.  I know
    that is how I feel about CBS myself and I kinda told the president of
    CBS entertainment just that in my letter.

    
    
    I will tape this Friday's episode if you would like.  I cna then
    forward it on.
    
    I was really surprised at how last week's 2 hour episode went. It was
    so serious compared to previous episodes.  I am glad however, to see that 
    CBS will air the next episode because I would be pretty ticked if they 
    left it off where last week's episode ended. 
    
    I will miss this show.

    Thanks for offering to tape it.  I have asked the local CBS station if
    they plan to air this episode at a different time and they say they
    are, but it is not in the tv section of the local newspaper, so I
    don't trust them. If you could tape it, that would cover my bases,
    and if they do show it, you won't need to send it. But better to ask
    you to tape it and have it shown here than to not tape and not have it 
    shown here and then be sol.  I really don't want to go through the rest
    of my life wondering what happened next.  The local station told me 
    Saturday night at 10:35pm MDT (June 10) -- FYI for anyone in Colorado 
    Springs.
    
    Not only am I going to miss "Due South", I am already having withdrawal 
    symptoms. But if CTV is going to continue to carry it, I will find a way 
    to get my fix. Either buy satellite disk or pay for cable for my brother 
    in NW Washington state -- I used to watch CTV in NW Washington -- or 
    someway.
    
    Maybe FOX could pick it up -- they could put it on right before "X-Files"
    and Friday nights would be perfect for me ..  ;-)  Time to write
    another letter I guess, this time to FOX.
    

    
    
    You've got it!  I will tape it and ask a friend to do so also as a
    backup!  :)
    
    
    

    Glad to see some interest in this show..I caught it quite by accident
    the first time and it was just quirky enough to be funny and hold my
    interest.
    
    After watching the special, though, I thought "oh that must be it for
    the show."  Like are we supposed to believe that Fraser's dead?  So I'm
    glad to see some hints here that there may be a little more to come.
    
    How did everyone else take the ending of the show?
    
    -- brandon

    Well, the local news TV guide shows that there will be another new 
    "Due South" episode shown this week on Friday again.
    
    Eee gads, three weeks in a row on a consistent day and time!
    What can CBS be thinking of?     (If people find it, they might just
    watch it or something, heavens!  :-)  )

    And last Friday's episode was top notch once again.  Excellent writing,
    especially the little asides between the characters.  I also liked how
    they tied in the 2-parter with this show.  Nice continuity.  
    
    It seems like every year there is one show I like that the networks
    decide not to renew.  Last year it was Brisco County Jr.; this year
    it's Due South.
    
    NAZZ

    I was on vacation and missed last FRI's episode -- does anyone in the
    GMA have it in a VHS tape that I could borrow?  Thanks.
    
    	/jeff

I only started watching this show three weeks ago because I saw a preview 
for the two parter and it looked good. Thought it was great and now really 
regret not watching from the start - there must have been something else 
on at the same time. I have enjoyed watching Paul Gross in a lot of 
Canadian productions. 
There was a good take off of the Diet Coke commercial where Lucky 
(whatever his name is) played the construction worker that all the office 
babes lusted after... except in this commercial you *think* it's going to 
be the Diet Coke commercial and then when the ladies look down you see 
Paul Gross in his Mounty uniform take off his hat and look up in the sky 
while all the ladies swoon... it's cute.  Did you get it in the States?
I hope that they continue production even if CBS decides not to buy the 
future episodes.  Apparently it is doing very well in England.

    Reprinted without permission from Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph
    June 13, 1995:
    
    " "Due South" has gotten the nod for a second season from our neighbors
    to the north, even though the show's future doesn't look bright here.
       CTV, Canada's Television Network, has renewed the series, whose fish-
    out-of-water story line revolves around a Canadian mountie who becomes
    a Chicago crimefighter.
       The dramedy (sic), which is filmed in Toronto, was a joint venture
    between CBS and CTV, with CBS footing nearly two-thirds of the show's
    production costs. "

    
    
    RE: Jeff,
    
    If you can convince Marge (previous reply) to wait an extra day or two,
    I have the episode on tape.  I work and live in Nashua.  Drop me a line
    off line if you work out the details with Marge about the tape. 
    Perhaps I could forward it to you and then you to her?
    
    Serena
    

    Has anyone got any "Due South" episodes taped, that I could copy? I will 
    pay postage both directions or send a new replacement tape or whatever.  
    Thanks, Marge

Marge - Sorry I don't have any episodes taped, but thought
I'd pass on the news that "Due South" has been filming in
a little park in my neighborhood for the last 3 days. I was
late to a seminar on Tuesday when I stopped to watch (read
drool) Paul Gross for awhile.  It's fun to watch a show
where I recognize a lot of the scenery.

    You Canada folks don't know how lucky you are to get this show --
    Not to mention to get to watch it being filmed as well!!
    
    
    Not only did CBS not schedule the episodes regularly when they were new,
    but they aren't being even being good about showing them as reruns. And 
    as expected when I wrote CBS I got no answer. The local affliate, who did
    reply to my letter to them, state that they did call CBS for me, and
    got the reply that CBS has "no room in the fall schedule".
    
    I still need my fix, if anyone has any episodes on tape. Thanks, Marge
    
    
    

    My satellite dish installer tells me that the Canadian satellites
    are located "due south" of Colorado Springs.
    
    He did not understand why I found that statement so funny.
    

    re:  .22  --
    >>>There was a good take off of the Diet Coke commercial ....  ETC <<<
    
    
    Was the commercial still for Diet Coke, or was the commercial for the
    "Due South" series itself?
    
    

    It's for the show and they still play it every now and then.  We get
    repeat episodes every Thursday at 8pm.

    I tuned in Thursday to CTV to watch "Due South" and there was something
    else on that looked like a new season pilot (something about a pre-teen 
    computer whiz kid with a Max Headroom spin off).
    
    So, was this a one time thing, or has CTV changed the time for "Due South",
    or is "Due South" off the air on CTV now too? 
    
    Thanks, Marge

Marge - I checked out the TV guide and Due South is on CTV tonight
at 8:00pm.  They are still showing repeats.  Don't know when the 
new season is starting.

Chris

    Thanks Chris. I guess it was just a one time thing that they showed
    that other program then. Marge

    I was looking at FX over the weekend and by pure accident I found that 
    they are showing "Civil Wars", which I think was on Fox a few years back, 
    but don't know for a fact where or when, since I never watched it.
    
    David Marciano (Ray in "Due South") turns up in "Civil Wars" in a
    regular role as a dweeby courier to the law office that this show
    takes place in.
    
    Does anyone know/remember what else David Marciano or Paul Gross have 
    been in?

    I caught Paul Gross in a movie made in 1993 called "Aspen Extreme".
    Nice scenery shots, good skiing shots, but a really dumbbbbb movie.  
    Paul Gross was good playing his character - who was kind of a jerk, but 
    not as cute as he is in "Due South", IMHO.
    
    BTW, when will CTV will be starting to show this year's "Due South"?  
    They must be getting close because the "Victoria's Secret" 2-hour 
    episode is supposed to be shown on Oct 12 on CTV.
    
    Speaking of Victoria (Fraser's evil girlfriend), I heard that Melina
    Kanakaredes (sp?), who played Victoria, is on the new Mary Tyler Moore 
    show "New York News" on Thursdays on CBS.  It is also at the same time 
    that "Due South" reruns are shown on CTV, so I did not see it.

    FWIW, the 2nd season of "Due South" starts Nov 9, 1995, on CTV in Canada. 
    The 1st episode is entitled "North".  If anyone is interested, I can
    and will post a synopsis of each episode of this year in this notes 
    conference.

    Please do.  Even if we can't see it, it will be nice to read how the
    show is progressing.
    
    NAZZ

    
    "Due South" Season 2, Episode 1 "North"
    
    Hopefully a fairly complete synopsis.  They are only showing this on one
    CTV feed now, instead of 2 like last summer. So I did not get to watch it
    twice before I tried to write the synopsis.
    
    <Spoilers follow>
    
    
    Ray and Fraser, both apparently recovered from their gun shot wounds of the
    last episode of the 1st season, and Diefenbaker are on their way for 
    2 weeks in the Northwest Territories to rebuild Fraser Senior's cabin.
    
    Ray complains about how he is missing vacation in Miami for this. Fraser 
    says well after all Ray didn't have to go, but Fraser is glad they are 
    going.
    
    Ray has some grumpy arguments with the guy at the little airport in 
    Canada where they are waiting to board a small plane for the Territories.
    Ray is over baggage weight and also has to leave his service revolver
    at the little airport.  Fraser-- "It is against the law to take a
    weapon on an airplane, especially one that is not even registered in this
    country." 
    
    While they are getting checked in, there is a prisoner being unloaded at
    the airport who kills the pilot and then takes over as the pilot on the 
    plane that Ray and Fraser are taking.  Ray and Fraser and Dief are the 
    only passengers.  Fraser calls Dief-- "We are going now. We will not be
    coming back." and they board.
    
    The plane takes off (supposed to be 4 hour flight).  Ground control
    tells the "pilot" that the 2 guys are cops. "The Mountie is OK but
    watch out for that other guy."  Fraser figures out that the pilot is not 
    the pilot, that he appears to be someone who was recently in handcuffs, 
    there is blood on his flight suit, and the plane has been flying South for 
    2 hours.  
    
    Ray figures he is a drug smuggler heading for Mexico and recounts ugly
    things that would happen to cops who meet up with smugglers in Mexico.
    
    Ray has his backup gun with him. Fraser-- "I will have to arrest you
    off course once we land".  They plan to overtake the pilot and land the
    plane.
    
    The pilot bails out of the plane. Leaving Fraser to land the plane.
    Fraser-- "I did read a flight manual in my grandmother's library.
    There were 2 pages missing, but I'm sure it was nothing vital, and
    there can't be that much difference between a Sopworth Camel and a
    small light plane".
    
    They crash land. Fraser has a gash on his head and can't see, but he
    convinces Ray that he is so familiar with the forest that he can guide
    them out. (NOT!! -my comment)  They walk around in a circle and come back 
    to the crash site.  Fraser blames it on one leg being slightly shorter
    than the other, so that he did not walk a straight line, and asks Ray
    to measure his legs. Ray refuses. Strongly.  Then Fraser decides that
    it is his head injury that is making him go awry.
    
    Back home  Lieutenant Welch has been informed by the little airport guy
    that the plane had gone down, there was no sign of the plane, there
    was no sign of survivors. He asks to be kept informed and will have to 
    inform Ray's family.
    
    At the plane when Ray and Fraser return, the hijacker was there and 
    shoots at them. Ray returnes the fire, but does not hit the hijacker.  
    Blind Fraser stands up and says "Under order of the RMCP you are under 
    arrest" and gets shot at. The hijacker flees.
    
    Meanwhile the hijacker had cleaned the plane out of supplies, so Ray 
    works on building a fire and they eat grubs and the like to survive.  
    Ray tells Fraser about how he has been camping before, his dad (Veccio 
    Senior) took him camping when he was a kid. 
    
    (Fraser Senior and Veccio Senior are both in this show. Fraser sees his
    dad and Ray sees his dad.  Fraser Senior wants Fraser to lose Ray and
    go after the hijacker because "Mounties always get their man" - which
    turns out NOT to be the Mountie motto - "and bring him in alive" and 
    he says that Ray will just hold Fraser up. Veccio Senior wants Ray to lose 
    Fraser and look out for #1 and the hell with anyone else in the world. 
    Both dead fathers pop up throughout the show with their respective 
    philosophies. And they also seem to see each other but not to communicate 
    with each other.  Both sons tell the fathers off - they are not about to 
    abandon their friend and so on.)
    
    Fraser is in pretty bad shape.  Ray asks Dief if he will get them out if 
    Fraser doesn't make it.  Dief also howls like a wolf. Ray-- "Sure, like you
    think you are a wolf or something."
    
    Fraser then loses the use of his legs so Ray carries him.  They keep
    themselves going by singing songs that they don't remember the words
    to and telling each other about their childhoods.  Fraser is also getting 
    real dehydrated and kind of muddled -- he keeps calling Ray "Steve". 
    Fraser can't sweat which means he is 10-15% dehydrated. At 20% you die. 
    Ray lets Fraser have all their water.  Veccio Senior has his say about Ray 
    letting Fraser have all the water.
    
    Meanwhile the hijacker is also tracking them. The hijacker still has a gun
    and 2 clips of ammo. Ray had used all of his bullets when they hijacker
    shot at them by the plane.
    
    Fraser makes a bolo, a kind of sling shot thingy made with 3 big rocks
    on strings. The Inuits use bolos to hunt with and can get elk using it.
    Ray tries to use it in a test and throws it into the top of the trees.
    
    Ray and Fraser get to a river, get water to drink, and then Ray tries to
    inflate the rubber raft they had with them, only the 2 Seniors get into
    the act again to try to convince their respective sons to do what they want
    them to do, and so Ray loses the raft -- it inflates but floats off
    down the river. Fraser-- "Should we get in now?"  Ray-- "I don't think
    right now is a good time."
    
    Fraser is beginning to get the use of his legs back, so he can walk
    some after Ray pops Fraser's back. Painful.
    
    They make a raft out of trees that Ray cuts down with his little
    hatchet and they put together with some rope and some tree roots (Fraser
    suggested tht they use birch bark strips, boiled and chewed, the Inuit
    women do that all the time, it is good for the teeth.  Ray-- "I will
    tell that to my dentist next time I see him.") - Ray wopuldn't have any
    part of the boiling and chewing so they use the tree roots instead.
    
    Ray tells Veccio Senior that he is not like him and he is glad that he
    is not like him. Throughout this episode we find out a quite lot about 
    what a rotten person Veccio Senior must have been when Ray was a kid.
    
    The hijacker shows up and starts shooting at them. Ray helps Fraser and
    they run from cover to cover to get to the raft. Fraser's plan is to
    lure the hijacker to the raft at the river and then they will capture
    him. 
    
    While they are running from cover to cover Ray tells Fraser that
    his dad never did take him camping, that he wanted to go when he was 10
    years old, just to spend some time with his dad, his dad finally promised
    and Ray made a tent and his mother had let him use her good sheets and
    everything, and he waited and waited and his dad never showed up. Ray
    finally found him at the pool hall instead. Ray then went home and took
    down his tent and they never talked about the camping trip again.
    
    Ray and Fraser are pinned down at the raft. Fraser's plan-- He will 
    distract the hijacker while Ray uses the bolo to get the hijacker.  
    Ray-- "You can't see the hijacker and I can't use the bolo." 
    Fraser-- "I didn't say it was a good plan."
    
    So Ray goes to get the bolo, the hijacker is shooting at him, Fraser says 
    "I can see" and promply knocks himself out on one of the trees of the raft.
    Dief is also running to attack the hijacker.
    
    Ray throws the bolo - he misses the hijacker.  He misses by a longggg way. 
    What did he hit?
    
    The bolo hits a rocky craig overhead of the hijacker, which causes a rock 
    slide to come down on the hijacker.
    
    Ray checks Fraser and Fraser can see.  Fraser asks what happened and
    Ray says that no one would ever believe what happened, it was a freak 
    of nature.
    
    Fraser Senior-- "You got your man." Fraser-- "We got our man."  
    Ray--  "Yes, we did."  Fraser Senior-- "But I think he is dead."  
    Fraser-- "Oh, dear."
    
    Ray and Fraser and Dief float down the river on the raft. Ray is the
    oarsman. Fraser keeps giving Ray a bad time about watch out for the
    rock, watch out for the sandbar, etc.  Ray finally gets Fraser to admit 
    that Ray does know what he is doing, and then  ...
    
    Fraser-- "Is that a waterfall?"
    
    End of episode.

Thank you kindly Maude. BTW, I've put this weeks issue of TV guide in the
inter-office for you.... it has a short article on Due South and a few
pictures.  Thought you might enjoy it.

Chris

    <<< Note 295.39 by TROOA::trp669.tro.dec.com::Chris "bad spellers UNTIE!" >
    >>Thank you kindly Maude.
    
    Chris, 
    "Thank you kindly." "No, I thank you." (taken from the Victoria episode)
    
    I am looking forward to your TV Guide.  I can't make it without my
    "Due South" fix.   :-)  
    
    Actually I am Marge. Maude is my neighbor's old Bassett Hound, though.
    
    Thanks much, Marge

Late breaking news 
Toronto, Canada, November 8, 1995 -- Alliance Communications Corporation 
announced
today that the CBS Television Network will air 8 new one-hour episodes of the 
critically
acclaimed television series Due South beginning Friday, December 8, 1995 at 
8:00 p.m.
EST.

Read the official announcement from Alliance


Due South is a Canadian-produced hour long action-adventure, comedy-drama 
about a
by-the-book Mountie assigned (along with his deaf, lip-reading wolf) to the 
Canadian
Consulate in Chicago, who in his spare time assists the Chicago PD (via his 
new best
friend, a street-wise tough Chicago detective) in solving various crimes. In 
Canada it's
currently shown Thursday at 8:00 pm (eastern) on CTV in Canada. In the United 
States
CBS will broadcast the second season of Due South starting December 8, 1995 
at 8:00
pm (eastern). 

The first episode of the second season will be aired in Canada on November 9, 
1995 on
CTV at 8:00 eastern. If you live outside of Canada or outside of the eastern 
time zone
you should check your local listings for when the new episodes will be aired.

The first three episodes will be: 

     #123 - "North" Nov 9, 1995
     #124 - "Vault" Nov 16, 1995
     #125 - "The Witness" Nov 23, 1995

The above was taken off one of the internet web sites - there seem to
be quite a few which you can find by doing a net search and putting
in Due South (this one is from Brian and Sandy MacGowan's page)

    re: 295.41
    >>the CBS Television Network will air 8 new one-hour episodes of the
    critically acclaimed television series Due South beginning Friday, 
    December 8, 1995 at 8:00 p.m.>>
    
    All right!! Now I can watch my program 2 times on Thursday on CTV feeds (I
    found the 2nd feed, it is later than it used to be) and 3 more times on 
    Fridays on CBS feeds. If I add taping to this, my fix becomes unlimited!!  
    
    Maybe all of our cards and letters did amount to something, even if they 
    never got answered.  (Not to mention that CBS needs all the help it can 
    get right now.)
    
    I can still continue to put in synopses of the episodes behind
    spoilers warnings, if anyone wants me to, or we can wait for CBS 
    to show us what Ray and Fraser do each week.
    
    Marge

    
    CTV did not show the 2nd episode of the 2nd season after all tonight.
    They showed a rerun of last season's episode entitled "A Cop, A Mountie, 
    and a Baby" instead.
    
    Next week's schedule has the Beatles Anthology program instead of "Due
    South".
    
    Has anyone in Canada heard if CTV is waiting for CBS to show the season 
    opener before CTV continues on airing the new season or anything like
    that?  
    

    FYI - 
    
    I live is the Washington DC/Baltimore area and have been seeing ads for
    new due south episodes, starting either this week or sometime between
    now and January (sorry, haven't really paid close attention to it)
    
    So you may want to keep an eye open here is the states!

    "Due South" resumes on CTV on Thurs Dec 7 at 9pm EST. They will be
    resuming with the 2nd episode, "Vault".  CBS starts the new "Due South" 
    season on Fri Dec 8 at 8pm EST.
    

    If you are a Paul Gross fan, HBO2 and HBO3 both are showing "Northern
    Extremes".  

    This information was provided by Chris Butkovich in Toronto. 
    Thank you kindly Chris.
    
    _________________
    1996 Gemini Nominations
    
    HOT NEWS from the production office - here is a list of the nomintations 
    which Due South has received for the 1996 Canadian Gemini Awards (like 
    the US Emmy Awardss). The results will be announced on 3rd March. 
    
    The show has 15 Nominations (in a total of 12 categories):
    
    Best Dramatic Series
    Paul Haggis, Jeff King, Kathy Slevin, George Bloomfield
    
    Best Direction in a Dramatic or Comedy Series
    Jerry Ciccoritti - Gift of the Wheelman
    
    Best Writing in a Dramatic Series
    Paul Haggis, David Shore - Hawk and a Handsaw
    
    Best Writing in a Dramatic Series
    Paul Haggis - Gift of the Wheelman
    
    Best Picture Editing
    David Thompson, Eric Goddard - Victoria's Secret
    
    Best Sound
    Brian Avery, Allen Ormerod, Keith Elliot, Michael Werth, Jann Delpuech 
    - Victoria's Secret
    
    Best Original Score
    Jack Lenz, John McCarthy, Jay Semko - Gift of the Wheelman
    
    Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role
    David Marciano - The Deal 
    Paul Gross - Gift of the Wheelman 
    
    Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a Dramatic Series
    Michael Riley - Hawk and a Handsaw
    Leslie Nielsen - Manhunt
    Gordon Pinsent - Gift of the Wheelman
    
    Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role in a Dramatic Series
    Laurie Holden - Letting Go 
    
    Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program 
    or Mini Series
    Gordon Pinsent - Victoria's Secret
    
    Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series
    Beau Starr - The Deal
    
    

    I'd hate to have to go through life with the name "Haggis."

    Spectacular and moving episode Friday night.  Great performance by
    David Marciano, who got to show his full range of acting skills.  This
    episode did have a few quirky, humorous moments (mostly thanks to
    Diefenbaker), but the serious tone was appropriate for the topic.  I
    also enjoyed learning a bit more about Ray's background.  The writers
    did an excellent job of tying in last year's episode with Zucco to this
    installment.  Zucco is a villian we will see again.
    
    NAZZ

    
    The aspect I liked about "The Deal" from last year (that CBS repeated a
    week ago so that viewers were set up for "Juliette is Bleeding" this
    week) was that it was one of the 1st episodes to really start developing
    Ray as a character in the series.  David Marciano has been nominated for 
    a Gemini Award for Best Actor in a Dramtic Series for "The Deal".  
    We've actually been learning quite a bit about Ray and his past this 
    season from several episodes.
    
    "Juliette" was a very good episode. Nice continuity, as always. However, 
    like "Victoria's Secret" it does bring out the darker side of "due SOUTH".
    
    I will miss Louie, though.  It will be interesting to see how the
    tension between Ray and Huey will work out without Louie.
    
    "Juliette" is the 7th of this season's new episodes.  I have not heard
    yet if CBS has decided to get more than the first 8 (of the 13 CTV is
    producing) that CBS ordered for this year.  For US viewers, I hope so.
    Letters to CBS will help.  Weekly ratings have ranged from #53-#65 so far 
    this year in the US.
    
    To send mail to CBS about the series write:
    CBS Entertainment
    175 Fifth Ave.
    Suite 2307
    New York, New York
    
    To send mail to Due South, or any member of the cast, write to this 
    address:
    DUE SOUTH
    940 Lansdowne Ave
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    M6H 3Z4
    
    You can also send comments to the cast and crew via e-mail:
    duesouth@inforamp.net.  Direct the comments to the proper person(s)
    on the subject line.  These comments do not go to CBS, or CTV,
    or Alliance Productions, however, so hit CBS directly with support
    letters.  All e-mail to this address does get answered;  it might take
    them a couple weeks to answer you however, since they get over 100
    pieces of mail weekly, since they started publishing this address at
    the end credits of each week.
    
    CBS'S WEB SITE IS:
    http://www.cbs.com/
    Visit here to see the complete CBS line-up, plus links to several CBS 
    show's Web Pages.  (There is a really poor (IMHO of course) CBS home 
    page for "due SOUTH" -- 2 pictures and nothing else.)
    
    To see World Wide Web pages for "due SOUTH enter one of the following 
    URLS into your Mosaic or Lynx Browser:
    http://www.interlog.com/~macgowan/DueSouth.html
    http://www.usask.ca/~turner/duesouth.html
    
    Another home page is Hanzi's and it is good and thorough. I don't have
    the address for this, but an internet search on due south finds it readily.
     
    I still watch "due SOUTH" on Thursdays on CTV and if CBS does not pick up 
    the rest of the season, I can and will still post synopses.  (Until the
    CTV uplink feeds go digital, that is.)

    Due South Gemini Awards
    
    During the live telecast March 3, on CBC-TV Due South was awarded the
    following Geminis: 
    
    Best Dramatic Series 
         Paul Haggis, Jeff King, Kathy Slevin, George Bloomfield 
    
    Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role 
         Paul Gross - "Gift of the Wheelman" 
    
    Best Writing in a Dramatic Series 
         Paul Haggis, David Shore - "Hawk and a Handsaw" 
    
    Chrysler Canada's Choice Award 
         This was determined from a poll conducted by TV Guide magazine,
    	 for being viewer's favourite Canadian program. 
    
    In a non-televised gala on Saturday, March 2: 
    
    Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a Dramatic Series 
         Gordon Pinsent - "Gift of the Wheelman" 
          
    Best Direction in a Dramatic or Series 
         Jerry Ciccoritti - "Gift of the Wheelman" 
    
    Also on Friday, March 1, during the craft and technical presentations,
    the show was awarded:
    
    Best Sound 
         Brian Avery, Allen Ormerod, Keith Elliot, Michael Werth, Jann
    	 Delpuech - "Victoria's Secret" 
                                
    

    I have been nosing around in some internet home pages and found a
    notice as of March 1 that CBS has ordered an addiional 5 episodes 
    for season 2, bring the total to 18.  
    
    Also, CBS will be showing NCAA basketball playoffs for this week and
    next week, but "due SOUTH" will be back March 29.
    
    
    (CBS doing this is a good thing for me because I will lose CTV satellite 
    feeds very soon. CTV is going digital and will also be doing proprietary
    encryption, so CTV will not be available in the US.  NTV (the Newfoundland 
    CTV affiliate) also goes digital at end of April.  Sigh)

Hi,

As knowone it seems, has replied from the UK I thought I would!

We have had Due South here in the UK for a couple of years (I think) 
I really enjoy the show and can't wait each week for the next one!

I enjoyed the episode with Lesley Nielson, the train and the girl!

I think the BBC may have teamed up with Paul Gross, because he's 
certainly been over here alot in the last year, appearing on all 
our chat shows with Dief!

Cheers,
Marina

    The BBS has joined CTV (Canada) and a few other countries (France is
    one) to finance a 3rd season of Due South.  It started production
    yesterday and will be shown in Canada starting in September.  Paul
    Gross is back as the Mountie, but David Marciano will only be making
    guest appearances as Ray.   And.... a different dog will be playing
    Deifenbaker.