TTC: Other Items (catch all)

[zang]

Here are the film, television, and streaming productions done in Toronto:

I find the City's list a little small and doesn't reflect all of what's going on.

ACTRA's list is more comprehensive and lists recent past as well as future stuff. Note: for secrecy's sake, it's sometimes under red herring working titles rather than production names; "Turkey Meatloaf" is apparently the working title for Reacher season 4 (named after Alan Ritchson's favourite meal), and was recently filming in Yorkville using signs only saying "TM".

What's Shooting - ACTRA Toronto

PLEASE NOTE: If an A707 declaration is received, it means that the project is a fully privately financed, non-Canadian production. While the Producer will make best efforts to hire Canadian […]

actratoronto.com

 

[smallspy]

Note: it's sometimes under red herring working titles, rather than production names.

Not sometimes. Most of the time, and especially with big productions, a working title will be used that does not necessarily reflect the final name of the production or even the genre of the piece.

Back when I worked in this field this was even the case for music videos being worked for popular singers and groups.

Dan

 

[zang]

Not sometimes. Most of the time, and especially with big productions, a working title will be used that does not necessarily reflect the final name of the production or even the genre of the piece.

It really depends on the budget and star power. Murdoch Mystery's never gonna cover up their name, and neither will the low budget films. A lot of times though, sets themselves will indeed use a red herring name.

 

[evandyk]

Unless it’s reshoots, The Greatest was supposed to have wrapped in late July.

My money’s on “The Westies”, a series set in 1980’s Hell’s Kitchen about Irish gangs. It’s currently in production and doesn’t wrap until then end of October.

Maybe. But you've sent me down a rabbit hole, and I think it's earlier than that. There was a cop car that had a megaphone and two siren lights on its roof. This website suggests the NYPD used that until the mid 1970s, after it was replaced by a bar of lights across the top.

NYPD cars from 1970's

The one I saw looked like this. Though obviously a car from the mid 1970s wouldn't be out of place in a 1980s show.

https://www.policecarwebsite.net/fc/ny/nypd/nypd2406.jpg

 

[zang]

Maybe. But you've sent me down a rabbit hole, and I think it's earlier than that. There was a cop car that had a megaphone and two siren lights on its roof. This website suggests the NYPD used that until the mid 1970s, after it was replaced by a bar of lights across the top.

Oh, I'm very likely wrong about it being The Westies. My guess was more about what's currently filming and is set in the past.

The one I saw looked like this. Though obviously a car from the mid 1970s wouldn't be out of place in a 1980s show.

It could also just be the kind of anachronism that productions are willing to "forget" if they can't rent the exact right vehicle from the prop companies. Very few viewers will even think there may be a difference, or care for that matter.

Of course, it could just be a simple flashback scene from a series set in modern day. *shrugs*

 

[evandyk]

Anyways, I have no actual information. I just relayed the chatter from the biggest St. Lawrence neighbourhood facebook group

 

[Admiral Beez]

Sigh... my daughter just texted that she's on the subway at Finch for the ride to College, and some nutter jumps onto the tracks, flaying about and shouting before walking down the tunnel. Now they're announcing no service from Finch to Sheppard, with the lights turned off, presumably to protect our wandering chap from electrocution. She's safe, sitting with a huddle of women on the train, waiting for the all clear or exit for the buses call.

 

[evandyk]

Same as this morning... luckily the weather was nice enough to bike my son to school. Though looking at their twitter, there wasn't actually a line shutdown. Hope your daughter made it home safe!

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Sigh... my daughter just texted that she's on the subway at Finch for the ride to College, and some nutter jumps onto the tracks, flaying about and shouting before walking down the tunnel. Now they're announcing no service from Finch to Sheppard, with the lights turned off, presumably to protect our wandering chap from electrocution. She's safe, sitting with a huddle of women on the train, waiting for the all clear or exit for the buses call.

Platform screen doors? No, money is more important than lives according to the fiscal conservatives.

 

[Admiral Beez]

Platform screen doors? No, money is more important than lives according to the fiscal conservatives.

This country, province and city has been governed by big spenders forever. No fiscal conservatives anywhere I've seen.

 

[gabe]

Sigh... my daughter just texted that she's on the subway at Finch for the ride to College, and some nutter jumps onto the tracks, flaying about and shouting before walking down the tunnel. Now they're announcing no service from Finch to Sheppard, with the lights turned off, presumably to protect our wandering chap from electrocution. She's safe, sitting with a huddle of women on the train, waiting for the all clear or exit for the buses call.

The worst part about getting a shuttle bus when the station is closed, is nobody knows what a lineup is these days. They just form a crowd on the curb and shove people out of the way to get on the bus.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

The worst part about getting a shuttle bus when the station is closed, is nobody knows what a lineup is these days. They just form a crowd on the curb and shove people out of the way to get on the bus.

If there already was a parallel bus route to the subway to handle inaccessible stations, due to maintenance or mischief, there would be a "shuttle" bus present, until additional shuttle buses arrive along the route.

 

[zang]

This country, province and city has been governed by big spenders forever. No fiscal conservatives anywhere I've seen.

Rob Ford, John Tory, famous “big spenders”.

 

[Undead]

Big spender indeed:

2022:

What you need to know: 7 highlights from Ontario’s largest spending budget in history

Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy has introduced a Tory blue budget — awash in red ink. Here are some highlights of the record $198.6 billion fiscal plan.

www.thestar.com

"The $198.6-billion spending plan is by far the largest in Ontario history — 25 per cent higher than former Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne’s final $158.5-billion budget in 2018."

2024:

Ford government tables $214.5B spending budget, largest in Ontario history, as deficit grows to $9.8B

The Ford government has tabled the largest spending budget in Ontario history at $214.5 billion. The deficit is projected to grow dramatically this year to $9.8 billion.

toronto.citynews.ca

"The Ford government has tabled the largest spending budget in Ontario history at $214.5 billion."

And as you know the City can't spend big even if they wanted to because of how the relevant provincial legislation is set up.

 

[SubHuman]

... and some nutter jumps onto the tracks, flaying about and shouting before walking down the tunnel. Now they're announcing no service from Finch to Sheppard, with the lights turned off, presumably to protect our wandering chap from electrocution...

Platform screen doors?..

Why would spending billions of dollars ("platform edge door system for Lines 1, 2 and 4 is estimated at $4.1 billion") on that somehow be the first idea?
As I've pointed out here before, the number of these reported track trespasser incidents has increased from 110 in 2018 to 711 in 2024. Does it seem likely that it might be a new person doing this for the first time, all 711 times?
"TTC spokesperson Stuart Green said while individual offenders aren’t tracked". Why not?
""... and the hospital keeps releasing them,” the entry says."
How about having them institutionalized after they do it the first time? Who or what is being helped by releasing people so mentally unsound and incredibly dangerous to themselves to keep doing it again and again?
I'm trying to imagine what kind of misguided argument could possibly defend this situation. "Putting them in an institution would be a mean and unfair thing to do to them"? As opposed to letting them out to keep doing it, until they get killed by a train (and maybe run over 13 times before anyone notices)?