Vancouver coroners, pathologists and homicide detectives inhabit a murky world as they attempt to solve the mysteries behind the unnatural, accidental, or suspicious deaths committed in the city's back alleys and bedrooms. At times selfless, at times grudging, they all have agendas and history, passion for their work, and ambition for their futures. Charismatic, controversial and mercurial Vancouver Coroner Dominic Da Vinci is the pivot around which this complex world spins.
Gemini Award-winner Nicholas Campbell stars in Da Vinci's Inquest as the controversial Vancouver Coroner who, working with homicide detectives and pathologists, speaks for the dead to protect the living. As a spokesman for the dead, Dominic Da Vinci strives to give dignity to untimely death. For every issue he champions, there is the underlying knowledge of human frailty, and a wry acknowledgment that his own personal and professional past is riddled with missteps.
A four-time Gemini Award winner for Best Dramatic Series, Da Vinci's Inquest has won over 35 industry awards and been twice nominated for the prestigious Banff Rockie Award as Best Continuing Series. Da Vinci's Inquest is broadcast in over 45 countries on the five continents and distinguished as Canada's top-rated dramatic series.
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Xander Berkeley has been added to the cast of CW action pilot Nikita as the assassin-in-training's unscrupulous leader. The actor has decades of TV and film credits, but perhaps is best known as the former CTU boss on 24.
Award-winning Broadway actress Kathleen Chalfant will play the crotchety grandmother of Sean Faris' love interest in The CW's drama pilot, Wyoming. The 65-year-old Tony nominee has been featured on Rescue Me and The Guardian.
Is The Justice Society returning to Smallville? Speaking at a Comic-Con in Seattle this past week, Geoff Johns said the heroes do appear at the end of this season. And, incidentally, the awesome 2-hour Absolute Justice movie will air again on a special night, Thursday, May 20.
Pestilence is coming to Supernatural. Matt Frewer will portray the Horseman who creates and spreads disease, beginning in episode 20. Matt burst onto TV screens in 1987 as the title character of groundbreaking sci-fi series Max Headroom.
Will Smith (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) is in talks to produce and star in a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1941 psychological thriller, Suspicion. Joan Fontaine, 92, won an Oscar for her role and has been estranged from sister Olivia de Havilland, 93, a fellow nominee, ever since.
