A Martin Shaw Public Service Announcement

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For any Canadian Pros fans with digital cable on the flist (there must be another one of us, no?) CBC's CountryCanada is running the first episode of The Chief with Martin Shaw today. It's on at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. EST.

I shall be adding it to the PVR, and hopefully, eventually, copying it over to DVD.

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I have to admit, I'm pretty ambivilent on what I've seen of the show. It's shot on video, so it looks like crap, and the acting/writing/directing is of highly variable quality. But Martin looks gorgeous and his character is fairly interesting, possibly what Doyle might have become if he'd gotten control of his temper and made a conscious effort to rise through the ranks of the Met.

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Hmmn! How about A&E (Always and Everyone?), have you seen any of those? That's another one that I missed...

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I've seen the first series of A&E and quite liked it, though it never grabbed me entirely. And I had to stop watching it when I hit an episode that was rather too close to what happened when my father nearly died of pneumonia when I was a teenager.

I think I've still got the tapes of the first series kicking around. I'll see if I can find them and dub 'em for you. But it may take me till after Christmas to get around to it. We're a bit crazy at the moment getting ready for Christmas and both our birthdays. (December birthdays are, how shall I put this, not ideal.) Remind me at the end of the month if I haven't mentioned it.

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*grumble-can't-control-where-my-replies-go-they're-all-mixed-up-grumble*

Oh my - thank you for the A&E offer! Only if it's not too much bother though, honestly! (I was gonna say "no bother", but the little Doyle-shaped devil whispering sweet nothings in my ear got the best of me).

And you both have december birthdays? That's very poorly-organized of you! And yet terribly caught-up-in-the-excitement-festive...

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No worries. It's always fun to spread the Martin love. Just give me some time to find the tapes and get them dubbed.

The December birthday thing used to be compounded by having the anniversary of our first date smack in the middle of them. At least now we've got a much more reasonable October wedding anniversary to celebrate instead.

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Hmmn - well now I'm curious about that! As little as a few months ago I had MS and Doyle completely separated in my head, and I still do for anything that counts. But I do like watching JJD and thinking - oh that's so Doyle! Although Doyle wouldn't be Doyle without all that fire and dark temper... I can see JJD holding that back sometimes too, which is interesting. And it all makes me wonder about how much of ourselves we put into acting or writing or whatever, and if we're ever really separate. Or is that the real talent of it? Or...

PS - messed up where I posted this, so deleted and re-posted. Hope that didn't mess up your lj..

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I'm really conflicted with JJD. BBC Canada was showing it when we got digital cable, so I've got the last three episodes of season 4 on the PVR. And I have to say I was yelling at the screen while watching the first of those eps because he can be such a jerk, at least when it comes to women. Why Jenny Seagrove is still even talking to him, I'll never know. Still, I'll have to steel myself to watch the last two eps.