TV loves me, this I know

God, I love Da Vinci's Inquest. It's on autorepeat on Showcase, now, so I'm getting caught up quickly. Dominic Da Vinci is the chief coroner in Vancouver, so it's basically murder + public health.

They always have multiple storylines, not everything works out, and my favourite thing of all - it's not one case/episode. The show just stops where it is, and picks up again the next time. A story can take as long as it needs to. It's nice to have a procedural/mystery show where you aren't predicting the plot twists by the minutes left on the clock.

Of course, as I've finally started to watch this show (I thought it was a pretentious title; what did I know?), it's over. But but but: The guy Da Vinci is based on was the real life coroner in BC. He worked as a consultant and writer for the show for a while. Then he got elected mayor of Vancouver. So, there's a new series being developed: Da Vinci's City Hall. Just in time to prep the 2010 Olympics!

In tonight's Slings and Arrows, Geoffrey had to convince the funeral home to cut off his former director's head (and don't we all wish we could do that, sometimes?) so it could be used in future productions of Hamlet.

Geoffrey Tennant (Paul Gross): I believe that the state has no place in the nation's bedrooms, and by extension...its graves.

My mom and I have been reading Kathy Reich's Tempe Brennan series for the last several years (one per year...). Tempe's a medical anthropologist who consults on crime scenes where the body is too decomposed to be identified or analyzed by the medical examiner. Now, they're adapting it for TV. The show will be called Bones.

There was a woman murdered in Edmonton this last month. Pregnant, murdered by her husband, and so badly decomposed in less than a week that they can't even get a cause of death. We should be able to do better than that. We should have a medical anthropologist. I don't think there are very many, though.