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YouTube channel 'encore+' resurrects Canadian TV shows, films for a new generation -
Littlest Hobo, Mr. Dressup and many more classic Canadian favourites will feature on the online channel after a collab by the Canada Media Fund and Google Canada.
http://www.metronews.ca/entertainment/2017/11/09/youtube-channel-encore-resurrects-canadian-tv-shows-films.html
"After years of development, the Canada Media Fund and Google Canada have teamed to launch encore+, a new YouTube channel giving viewers here and around the world access to decades of Canadian film and TV gold."

via "decades of Canadian television shows now legally on YouTube for free (Mr. Dressup, Degrassi 1.0, Due South, Afraid of the Dark, Littlest Hobo, etc.)" https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/7cfdhy/decades_of_canadian_television_shows_now_legally/

"The shows have been organized into playlists https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH9jfFz0VzO-sqfh_TLVT7A/playlists: Selections include:

Mr. Dressup
Are You Afraid Of The Dark? (EN and FR)
Degrassi Junior High (EN and FR)
Da Vinci's Inquest
Due South (EN and FR)
Little Mosque on the Prairie
The Littlest Hobo
Slings and Arrows
Ready or Not!
various mini-series like "Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach"

According to one of the comments, they haven't loaded all the episodes yet, but there are hopes that they will.

How Fanfic Helps Black Women Create The Stories TV Still Can’t Provide
by Bim Adewunmi

"From The Walking Dead to The Flash, fanfiction adds necessary nuance to the narratives of black women onscreen – thanks to the black women who are writing these stories."

https://www.buzzfeed.com/bimadewunmi/how-fanfic-helps-black-women-create-the-stories-tv-cant (via the co-host description of ep 71 of the Another Round podcast)

Tempted by this TV Show Batman t-shirt. If you want one, get it soon. 4 days left.

https://cottonbureau.com/products/henchwoman

(via)

First official Jewish tartan unveiled

"Jews around the world with a love of all things Scottish will now able to dress in an official kosher tartan.

"The distinctive blue and white design was created by Mendel Jacobs, the only Scottish-born Rabbi living north of the border, and has been registered with the Scottish Tartans Authority. [...]

"Mr Jacobs worked with Mike Wilson of the Scottish Tartans Authority to finalise the design. “I chose blue and white as the colours of both the Israeli and Scottish flags,” he said. “The central gold line represents the gold from the Ark in the Biblical Tabernacle and the many ceremonial vessels. “The silver is to represent the silver that adorns the Scroll of the Law and the colour red is for the traditional red Kiddush wine.” [More]

"Children of the Stones [with Gareth Thomas] is the revolutionary 1977 British children's television drama telling the story of an astrophysicist and his son who arrive in the village of Milbury to study the giant Neolithic stones which surround it, and the community which is held in a strange captivity by the psychic forces generated by the stones. [...] The show includes every 70s horror trope: ESP, telepathy, ley lines, ancient stones, wicca, the occult, the paranormal, the supernatural, astronomy, dance rituals, cults, black holes, archaeology, uncanny valley, creepy kids, a soundtrack that sounds like a Manhattan Transfer Halloween sound effects record accompanied by the obligatory theremin, and a bad painting alluding to dark secrets past, present, and future." http://www.metafilter.com/157634/one-of-the-scariest-things-they-saw-as-children

The entire thing (two and a half hours) is on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwT0wLnT7Rc

I've never hard of this one before, but it's exactly the sort of stuff I loved watching when I was a kid. Speaking of 70's horror, remember Spectre, with Robert Culp, 1977?

"STARtorialist - Where science meets fashion and scientists get fabulous!"
http://www.startorialist.com/

(via via http://www.startalkradio.net/show/expanding-our-perspectives-with-susan-sarandon/ )

“Madness is an un-word, dear. It does not exist. There are only varying degrees of sanity. Yours and mine just happen to be more varied than most.”

— Eleanor Bunsall (played by Prunella Scales), “Beyond the Grave,” Midsomer Murders ep 3.4

Cosplay by McCall’s - http://cosplay.mccall.com/
http://cosplayblog.mccall.com/2015/04/23/hello-world/

"We’re so, so excited to introduce Cosplay by McCall’s, the new cosplay sewing site from the McCall Pattern Company. We want to bring you the very best in patterns, sewing tips, and more, whether you’re making bodysuits or tailcoats, ball gowns or capes. Superheroes and sorcerers and magical girls, beginners and veteran stitchers alike are all welcome here."

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I noticed their booth at C2E2 just for a second on Saturday, but I think I was on my way to a panel, and then I forgot to go back to check them out on Sunday.

(btw, are dealers’ rooms not called dealers’ rooms any more? I was there on Saturday with a young woman who had no idea what I meant when I texted her that I was in the dealers room. She called it “the Show Floor,” and so did all the signs. Or is that just a C2E2 thing?)