Farewell to Nova Scotia

Hi Folks, finally updating on the local scene here with my editor Lunchmeat Harold (ed. Howdy!)

I'm leaving home, bye, bye.  Yes, it's time for me to leave this fair province and return to my roots in Toronto.  As faithful readers know (ed. Hey Carl and Jennie!) I moved to Nova Scotia 20 years ago when the business here was booming.  Then I stopped working.  Now it's time for me to get back to work.  In Toronto.  The land of milk and money.

I'll be changing the name of this blog but I will continue to write though probably more from a Toronto P.O.V. than a Nova Scotian one.  (ed. sexy!)

That being said, let's see what's happening in our fair province.

Trailer Park Boys the series has been rapped and will debut on…a website? (ed.  it's the latest thing!)

Actually this makes sense.  The boys have a loyal aka rabid following and a subscription based website will probably do well.  Considering the regular model of signing with a Canadian broadcaster (ed. Ha!  Good luck with that!), then CMF, tax credits, blah blah blah.  I'm wondering though how they came up with the money to produce the show.  Anybody know?

The TPB III movie has been given a release date.  (ed. wouldn't it be good to tell us what it is?  I mean why bring it up if you don't know?)

A movie called Beethoven just finished shooting in town, I think it's about a German Shepard who can play piano.

Bill Niven and Jay Dahl are producing a film by Andrea Dorfman, (ed. presently in production.) and Deanne Foley is in town to shoot a feature film.  (ed. why would a Newfoundland director come here?)

The Atlantic Film Festival went off smoothly, I'm told, despite a new crew running things there.  Gregor Ashe the ex-executive Director of the AFF wasn't successful in the recent provincial election.  Not sure what he's doing now.  Anybody know?  (ed. seems to be more questions than answers in this blog lately).  I wonder if FilmNS or whatever they call themselves these days, had their annual exclusive friends only lobster boil this year.  Or was that an Anne MacKenzie thing?

Speaking of Anne MacKenzie, what is she up to?  Since her leaving/dismissed/quitting/shown the door as Executive Director of FilmNS last year she was suppose to have moved to Ottawa and started working at some mysterious "think tank".  Did she do that?  (ed.  again with the questions.)  She sure seems to be doing a lot of travelling.  (ed. 1st Class?  Or on her own dime?)

And that's all for now.  I'll probably be renaming this blog CanadaTVandFilmStuff once I move to Toronto next week because Toronto is Canada.

If anyone has any questions, answers, comments etc please let me know.