"Increasingly, Haddock's crime drama series Intelligence is an anomaly in that it's, well, smart, it doesn't get great numbers, and, according to Haddock, it's coming back."
http://www.playbackmag.com/articles/magazine/20070430/smallscreen.html
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Thanks for the link. I see that Playback is now acting as if it hadn't spent the past year bashing the show and the network. Whatever.
The show has been renewed, but it's still unofficial. CBC has not yet made an announcement one way or another.
http://www.geocities.com/rpcv.geo/intelligence.html
It has been renewed officially. CBC had their glitzy season roll-out today. Hurrah!
shareYup, here's the story: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070529/entertainment/tv_cbc_fall_schedule
"The Rick Mercer Report," another ratings winner for the CBC, also returns, as does Stroumboulopoulos's "The Hour" and Chris Haddock's "Intelligence."
I don't understand why "Intelligence" hasn't caught on with Canadian viewers in a much bigger way. It is a gutsy intelligent drama..and I am friggin' hooked.
shareMaybe they could promote it. That's an idea!
I've been visiting my family in Ohio where we get CBET as a local station on cable* (Windsor's 70 miles away). Heaven forfend Canadian TV, CBC or the other guys, which we don't get, would try to get onto American cable except as local border stations, one by one; oh, no. I mean, hey, there are only so many cable spots to go around, about 755 of them. Most of the upper-digit ones are playing, uh, music without even any videos.
Anyway, I've seen promos for the new fall season on CBC. Buncha shows I wouldn't, for the most part, be tuning in even if I lived here & could. Any promo for Intelligence, coming up in October? Nah. Any signs that either the Da Vinci movie, in the can & previously advertised as "for this summer", is ever gonna air? Nah. Any signs that "The Englishman's Boy", a 4-parter or so made from a prize-winning novel & featuring Nicholas Campbell (of Da Vinci's Inquest fame, for anyone who doesn't know), in the can at least a year now, is ever gonna show? Nah.
They do say "there will be movies coming up", though.
*And on antenna, back in the day. I grew up watching the station formerly known as CKLW, a Westinghouse station until Canada made non-Canadian owners amscray. Back then, the 50s & 60s, the CBC input was pretty well limited to news programs & features. Nevertheless, I pretty much feel I am rooting for the home team here vis-a-vis their current all-grown-up product, even though I am not Canadian.
Maybe they could promote it. That's an idea!
"unlike Intelligence, which you almost have to watch at least three or four times to get what's going on"
Yeah, CBC's been showing repeats and it's the little things, like Mike's hand shaking when he calls his brother to say he found the guy who cut him. The look on Bob's face when they're heading back to the club. Mary putting her two-hole punch back to it's awry position on her desk when Ted leaves. You catch those details and it can't be all Haddock - the actors are in on it too, making little details that create a world.
I'm glad CBC's renewing it. I've been catching DaVinci's City Hall on repeat also and it's sad that Canadians are avid television watchers, consume American programming like 24 and CSI [despite being owned by Alliance or CTV or Canwest, I can't remember] they can't be bothered to catch Intelligence and think about these things. I mean, grow-op's and gang-killings and American infiltration of our government are issues the newspapers and 11:00 news reports on a daily basis yet this show that addresses all these things struggles for renewal?
I was excited to hear this. Intelligence is one of my favourite shows. Something I've wanted to know is who plays Tracey's daughter. Do you know if it's actually his kid? Because she's brilliant. And she also looks a lot like him. If it's not his kid, it's great casting.
shareSophie Hough plays his daughter Stella. She's not really his daughter, but you're right, they do really well together. Having been a child actor, himself, he seems to be very good at putting children he works with at their ease and getting a good performance out of them. Yeah, I know, that's supposed to be the director's job, but he's done it so many times that obviously, he's responsible for a lot of why those kids do so well.
They also seem to go on to bigger and better things, so they must learn some valuable lessons from him about the trade.
http://www.geocities.com/rpcv.geo/intelligence.html