Thursday, June 12, 2014
Air Arctic
If you’ve read Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay then viewing Yellowknife, the setting for this CBC TV Series, from the air gives you a bird’s eye view of a landscape so vividly described in the novel. The show draws on the famous daring-do of the Canadian North’s Bush Pilots who fly and land anywhere in any weather in their float planes or on skis in a territory where compasses tend to spin round and round so close to the magnetic pole. For airplane buffs the show is a museum collectors dream with float planes and single-engine Beachcraft. The venerable DC3 is prominently flown.
CBC is at pains to show off its star attraction in this series, Adam Beach as Bobby Martin though until he goes on a diet and spends some time in a gym he should think twice about exposing his flabby midriff. The family run airline at the centre of this show lurches from crisis to crisis as it follows the lives of its pilots, mechanics, and office staff on the ground and in the air. The cast plays an eclectic mix of misfits such as one would expect to show up in the North. Interesting to see Nathaniel Arcand who plays a good guy on Heartland playing a heavy here. For actors bad guys are often more fun.
Just watched the last three episodes last night. Alas there will be no resolution of the cliffhanger rescue that ended Season 3. Not only was the show cancelled without warning but the sets, costumes, and props were sold off in almost ungodly haste. The CBC Radio Drama Department has been cut and original CBC TV Drama is rapidly disappearing. CBC Sports are gone, what’s left?
CBC is at pains to show off its star attraction in this series, Adam Beach as Bobby Martin though until he goes on a diet and spends some time in a gym he should think twice about exposing his flabby midriff. The family run airline at the centre of this show lurches from crisis to crisis as it follows the lives of its pilots, mechanics, and office staff on the ground and in the air. The cast plays an eclectic mix of misfits such as one would expect to show up in the North. Interesting to see Nathaniel Arcand who plays a good guy on Heartland playing a heavy here. For actors bad guys are often more fun.
Just watched the last three episodes last night. Alas there will be no resolution of the cliffhanger rescue that ended Season 3. Not only was the show cancelled without warning but the sets, costumes, and props were sold off in almost ungodly haste. The CBC Radio Drama Department has been cut and original CBC TV Drama is rapidly disappearing. CBC Sports are gone, what’s left?
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