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ENTERTAIMIENT C6 The Vancouver Sun, Friday. February 21, 1997 C6 The Vancouvel Producer says CBC had it in for MacNeil Produc( CBC he for Mac CIVT series Cold Squad to heat up Canadian production in Vancouver at up luver a i :,:,3: i. i RITA MACNEIL if The classic and a princess, a curse, and is awakened The classic IL and a prince a curse, and is awakened The classic and a princess, cu a rse, and is awakened Canadian Press HALIFAX CBC Television pegged Rita MacNeirs musical variety show Rita and Friends for extinction more than a year ago in spite of good reviews and ratings, its former producer said Thursday. Sandra Faire began planning her departure from CBC after it moved the show from Friday nights to Wednesdays "one of the toughest slots in the schedule." "We were up against all kinds of competition from The Nanny to Rhea Perlman to Wings to Laroquette to Beverly Hills 90210 and hockey on Global," Faire said after CBC announced it won't renew the program. is not traditionally scheduled in the middle of the week.

It's traditionally scheduled Friday-Saturday-Sunday. It was a bad time slot. You don't usually do it unless you're trying to kill the show." Faire said 16 first-run shows averaged 1.025 million viewers in the first year Canadian Press HALIFAX CBC Rita MacNeirs mu Rita and Friends fc than a year ago in si and ratings, its for Thursday. Sandra Faire beg parture from CBC show from Friday ni "one of the tou schedule." "We were up agai petition from The man to Wings to La Hills 90210 and Faire said after CBC renew the program "Variety is not trac in the middle of the ally scheduled Frida It was a bad time sic do it unless you'r( show." Faire said 16 first-I 1.025 million view own people," Keadey said. "We're here because we want to stay and work in Vancouver.

We don't want to be service producers. If we wanted to do that we'd work for the Americans and make a lot more money." Cold Squad will be character-driven more than action-oriented, Keadey said, in part because the stories will revolve around crimes that were committed five, 10 or even 20 years ago. "We're taking the tradition of the cop show and applying mystery conventions," Keatley said, saying the stories will be more about unraveling mysteries than testosterone-driven car chases. CIVT will be launched Sept. 15, said Baton president and CEO Ivan Fecan.

That week marks the official beginning of the 1997-'98 TV season for the Canadian and U.S. TV networks, Fecan explained. CIVT was originally scheduled to go to air on Sept. 1. The new station will be seen throughout the Lower Mainland on Rogers Cable, on either Channel 4 or Channel 9, pending Rogers' decision.

The new station will require some juggling of existing stations but none will disappear in the realignment, said Rogers officials. ley said. "We're here to stay and work in n't want to be service anted to do that we'd limns and make a lot be character-driven wiented, Keadey said, Le stories will revolve tat were committed years ago. tradition of the cop rig mystery convensaying the stories it unraveling mysterne-driven car chases. Inched Sept.

15, said ld CEO Ivan Pecan. ks the official begin98 TV season for the TV networks, Pecan vas originally sched1 Sept. 1. will be seen through-inland on Rogers Cannel 4 or Channel 9, ecision. will require some jugtations but none will realignment, said The new stadon will require some jug- gling of existing stations but none will disappear in the realignment, said Rogers officials.

Productions Inc. will start production some time in May, producer Philip Keatley said. Casting for the series has not yet begun but will be expedited over the next several weeks, Keadey said. Cold Squad's executive producers are Julia Keatley, Matt MacLeod and Atlantis Films' Anne Marie La Traverse. Atlantis is one of Canada's most prominent production companies and currently produces the Vancouver-based, Cable-ACE-winning anthology series The Outer Limits, among others.

The inspiration for Cold Squad came from MacLeod's 28-year experience as an RCMP officer in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley. The stories will be based iri and around Vancouver, and Vancouver actors, technicians and crews will be used exclusively during the show's production, Keadey confirmed. Cold Squad fulfills one of CIVrs condition of licence from the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission: the establishment of a Vancouver-based, 13-episode, one-hour drama series to be shown across Canada in prime time. "We're pretty insistent on being our Vancouver-based, 13-episode, one-hour drama series to be shown across Canada in prime time. "We're pretty insistent on being our ALEX STRACHAN Sun Television Critic Cold Squad, a new police drama and the first Vancouver-based, Canadian prime-time dramatic series since Madison, will begin filming in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley this spring, Baton Broadcasting vice-president Suzanne Steeves announced Thursday.

The 13-episode, one-hour drama is the first Canadian series to be officially confirmed for CIVT-TV, Vancouver's new over-the-air TV station, and will be shown across Canada on Baton's network of 25 stations. The "cold squad" of the show's title is an unconventional team of homicide detectives assigned to Vancouver's old, unsolved murders, known in the trade as "cold files." The squad is headed by Ali McCormick, a young, ambitious woman detective who has been assigned the thankless job of investigating cold cases using innovative forensic and investigative techniques. McCormick's team is made up of detectives who have been transferred from other divisions, some willingly, many of them not. Vancouver-based Keatley-MacLeod Ex TF AL Sun ill BatonB is made up of detectives who have been transferred from other divisions, some willingly, many of them not. Vancouver-based Keatley-MacLeod and 912,000 in the second when they were up against strong competition from programs such as the 'Wiles.

Viewership plummeted to 712,000 per show in the Wednesday slot last fall, but jumped by 100,000 with a post-Christmas switch back to Fridays, said Faire, who officially left CBC on Feb. 7. MacNeil's son and manager, Wade Langham of Lupines Productions, said his mother is busy preparing her 15th album. Programming director Slawko Klymkiw has said the CBC is already talking to MacNeil about future projects. women in Philharmonic, vows director of the said Thursday he disband Austria's most than bow to club and we won't twisted.

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