The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / Canadian TV “Easter Egg” Greets Viewers Of New Fox Network Show

**Posted by RadioActive** September 30, 2024 11:32 am

It's a Canadian produced show and it's now on the air in the U.S. The Fox Network is showing "Murder In A Small Town," a new drama that debuted last week.

I was never a viewer of the CBC classic "The Beachcombers," but Canadian TV scribe Bill Brioux points out that one of the very first shots shows a restaurant called Molly’s Reach. It’s the same diner Bruno Gerussi and his colleagues went to in the original CBC show. And it’s shot in the same place of Gibson’s Landing, B.C.

It will mean nothing at all to those watching down south. But I’m betting it put a smile on the faces of Canadian viewers who tuned in.

**Posted by paterson1** September 30, 2024 12:42 pm

Murder In A Small town is really more of a US show than Canadian. It is set in the US northwest not BC . Even though Global runs the program, they and Corus weren't involved in the production. The production company which I believe is Canadian sold it to FOX and used Gibsons Landing as the town and Molly's Reach for the restaurant but they are not set in BC from what I have read. Bill Brioux seems to indicate this in his article as well.

**Posted by RadioActive** September 30, 2024 1:16 pm

I don't believe I indicated it was meant to be interpreted that it was taking place in B.C. But the implied reference is still very much deliberate, although meaningless to an American audience. It's a wink and a nod to Canadians and something you don't see done very often.