''Da Vinci's City Hall'' is a

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, which premiered on

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on 25 October 2005 and ended on 28 February 2006. It is a spin-off of the long-running Canadian series ''

Da Vinci's Inquest ''Da Vinci's Inquest'' is a Canadian dramatic television series which originally aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. While never a ratings blockbuster, the critically acclaimed show did attract a loyal following, and ultimately seven seaso ...

''. The creator, writer and executive producer of the series was

Chris Haddock Chris Haddock is a Canadian screenwriter, producer and director best known as the creator and showrunner of the CBC Television series ''Da Vinci's Inquest'', '' Da Vinci's City Hall'', ''Intelligence'' and '' The Romeo Section''. He has won 14 Ge ...

Overview

Nicholas Campbell Nicholas Campbell (born 24 March 1952) is a Canadian film, television and voice actor and filmmaker, who won three Gemini Awards for acting. He is known for such films as '' Naked Lunch'', '' Prozac Nation'', '' New Waterford Girl'' and the te ...

reprises his role as Dominic Da Vinci, a former coroner entering municipal politics as the mayor of

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. Da Vinci is based on the real-life experiences of

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, the former chief coroner of Vancouver who was elected that city's mayor in 2002. With the series regular

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(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."

Cast

as Dominick da Vinci *

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as Rita Mah * Benjamin Ratner as Sam Berger *

as Coroner Mick Leary *

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as Detective Angela Kosmo *

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as Police Chief Bill Jacobs * Fred Keating as Councillor Jack Pierce * Simone Bailly as Constable Jan Ferris * Stephen E. Miller *

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as Detective Brian Curtis * Patrick Gallagher as Joe Finn *

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as Detective Carter * Terence Kelly as Fire Chief Ed Welles * Rebecca Robins * Hrothgar Mathews as Sgt. Charlie Klotchko *

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as Joe Friedland * Eugene Lipinski as Lloyd Manning * Gina Holden as Claire * Alex Diakun as Detective Chick Savoy *

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as Fire Captain Roy Komori

Episodes

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

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s, similar to the manner in which ''

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'' continued after its run as a weekly series had ended. The first of those TV movies, ''The Quality of Life'', aired on CBC on June 14, 2008. The show's final episode was aired on February 28, 2006. The program was repeated on the Canadian channel

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during the summer of 2008. CBC management has been criticized for cancelling the show to make room for other series that have since proved less successful."Blame for The One belongs to two on top," ''

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'', Toronto, Ontario: August 4, 2006. pg. D.9.

Broadcast in the United States

Beginning April 27, 2007, Superstation WGN began airing ''Da Vinci's City Hall'', but it is promoted by American syndicator Program Partners as "Season 8" of ''Da Vinci's Inquest'', even using the same intro as that series (which was used only late into the show's original run) despite the fact that some of the characters seen are not present in the new series. Nationwide syndication to local stations began in November 2007, also as part of the ''Da Vinci's Inquest'' package, with that show's titles.

References

External links

Official website
accessed 23 August 2007
CBC's webpage for ''Da Vinci's City Hall''
accessed 4 February 2007
WGN page for ''Da Vinci's Inquest''
(''Da Vinci's City Hall'' is incorporated as Season 8) *{{IMDb title, 0469239, Da Vinci's City Hall 2005 Canadian television series debuts 2006 Canadian television series endings 2000s Canadian drama television series CBC Television original programming Television series by Entertainment One Television series by Sony Pictures Television Canadian television spin-offs Television shows set in Vancouver Television shows filmed in Vancouver Canadian political drama television series