Da Vinci's City Hall

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Da Vinci's City Hall
Da Vinci's City Hall intro
Genre	Drama
Creator(s)	Chris Haddock
Starring	Nicholas Campbell Venus Terzo Ian Tracey Benjamin Ratner
Country of origin	Canada
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	45 minutes per episode
Broadcast
Original channel	CBC
Original run	October 25, 2005 – February 28, 2006
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Da Vinci's City Hall is a Canadian dramatic television series, which premiered on CBC Television on 25 October 2005. The series was a spinoff of the long-running Canadian series Da Vinci's Inquest. The creator, writer and executive producer of the series was Chris Haddock.

1 Overview
2 Cancellation
3 Cast
4 Episode guide
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Overview

Nicholas Campbell reprises his role as Dominic Da Vinci, a former coroner entering municipal politics as the mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia. Da Vinci is based on the real-life experiences of Larry Campbell, the former chief coroner of Vancouver who was elected that city's mayor in 2002.

With the series regular Ian Tracey (playing Mick Leary) inheriting the coroner's job, the show toggles back and forth between crime scenes and politics. Haddock says: "My approach was to make all the political stuff criminal and all the criminal stuff political. When we're in city hall we're really about conspiracy and scheming, who's crooked and who's going to get caught."

[edit] Cancellation

With an average weekly audience of just 400,000 viewers, Da Vinci's City Hall lost about half of the former audience for Da Vinci's Inquest. On February 13, 2006, the CBC announced that the show would not be brought back for a second season in 2006, although they also indicated that negotiations were underway to reprise the Da Vinci character in a series of television movies, similar to the manner in which North of 60 continued after its run as a weekly series had ended.

The show's final episode was aired on February 28, 2006.

Fans of the show have set up an online petition to try to convince the CBC to change its mind about cancelling the series. CBC management was also blamed for cancelling the show to make room for even less successful series such as What It's Like Being Alone.^[1]

[edit] Cast

Nicholas Campbell
Mylene Dinh-Robic
Benjamin Ratner
Ian Tracey
Venus Terzo
Brian Markinson
Stephen E. Miller
Evan Adams
Patrick Gallagher

[edit] Episode guide

#	Title	Airdate	Director	Writer(s)
1	Zero to Sixty Pretty Quick	25 Oct 2005	Nicholas Campbell	Chris Haddock

2	Cat in a Tree, Lunatic in the Street	1 Nov 2005	Charles Martin Smith	Chris Haddock

3	Isn't Very Pretty But You Can Smoke It	8 Nov 2005	Stefan Pleszczynski	Chris Haddock and Jesse McKeown

4	One Man Two Jobs	15 Nov 2005	Charles Martin Smith	Chris Haddock and Jesse McKeown

5	Put Down the Hose, Pick Up a Gun	22 Nov 2005	Stefan Pleszczynski	Chris Haddock

6	You Have to Bleed a Little	29 Nov 2005	Monika Mitchell	Chris Haddock

7	Ready to Call in the Horses	6 Dec 2005	Stephen Surjik	Chris Haddock

8	Gonna Cause a Ruckus	10 Jan 2006	Stuart Margolin	Chris Haddock and Jesse McKeown

9	Gotta Press the Flesh	17 Jan 2006	Charles Martin Smith	Jesse McKeown

10	When the Horsemen Come Looking	24 Jan 2006	Sturla Gunnarsson	Sylvia Leung

11	A Few Good Bites Before They Slap Me Down	31 Jan 2006	David Frazee	Chris Haddock

12	Bumped from the ball	7 Feb 2006	Sturla Gunnarsson	Jesse McKeown and Sylvia Leung

13	The Dogs in Sympathy with the Cats	28 Feb 2006	Stephen Surjik	Sylvia Leung and Hiro Kanagawa