I like the 3 different CSI stories set in Las Vagas, New York and Dade county, Florida. They are obviously mostly made in LA as they often use the same sets. In one night when New York followed Las Vagas on TV the crime scene in both was the same place (no doubt on the LA filmlot). Meanwhile the Florida series constantly shows the same docks and the same cruise ships and as for the scenes I noticed in a 1940s film the road they were fiming today was (then) a 2 lane highway with views of water whereas now it is 6 lanes (but no traffic) with views of water full of babes. (One understands the florida series is filmed using a gold filter to make it all look sunny and bright.) It is also noticable that the people in each series look so similar that one wonders if they work to a recipe of colours, accents, sexes and even voices in the parts. Unfortunately the one guy who stood out in the series - Grissom - has left after 8 or so series. He - a collector of bugs and gruesome objects was weird as in whats he thinking now. His best friend, as opposed to his wife, was a dominatrix who ran a dungeon, had a kid in college, dressed impeccably and took tea with him in the afternoon. All while she, carried on her totally legal (there) business with a cast of ladies with working whips for willing slaves. Not quite Morse and Oxford but more interesting than big brother...
--- On Thu, 13/5/10, Adrian Stott <[email protected]> wrote: From: Adrian Stott <[email protected]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: Lewis, was Halifax Bank (getting OT) To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 13 May, 2010, 15:40 On Thu, 13 May 2010 13:52:31 -0000, "Graham" <[email protected]> wrote: >Steve wrote " It's also quite amusing to hear my daughter, who lives in >Oxford, watching both Lewis and Morse commenting on how the cast walk into one >building only to emerge from the same building into a totally area of Oxford. " > >We have a similar experience watching Midsomer massacres, which is produced in >our locale, when a character walks out of a building in Long Crendon and >crosses the road into another builing in Thame High Street. They don't make >roads like that any more! It was ever thus. X Files was mostly shot in or near Vancouver, Canada, where I used to live and which I knew well. The transitions from one scene to another were often quite amusing. Vancouver has also been seen (especially in made-for-TV movies) portraying many other cities including Denver (Colorado, not Norfolk) and (horrors!) Toronto. A couple of weeks ago, scenery near it was seen as a backdrop for Captains Courageous. Don't believe everything you see on TV. Adrian
