Anniversary TV movie?
I am only suggestigng here not making news. I think it would be awesome to make a TV movie adventure as we are now 10 years without Sydney.
shareIt would be nice but the first TV series was not a rating hit...which was the reason why it was not extended after its contract of 3 years. So, I doubt that a TV movie would based on Relic Hunter will be made unfortunately.
sharehere in Greece it was a very successful and they kept playing reruns until maybe 2006-2007. I think the producers in Hollywood should understand that their movies and TV series have a global appeal and not only base their programs on American ratings. Friends for example weren't a worldwide hit series until 2000 and it was already in the sixth year! I think we need a series like Relix Hunter. I miss it.
shareYes but Relic Hunter was a Canadian-French production for the first 2 seasons and then Canadian-British (I think) production for the third season which most people agree was the poorest of the 3 seasons. Hollywood didn't make this TV show; it was some Canadian taxpayers (not me though, my apologies) who paid for the production of this TV series. That is why Relic Hunter is regularly played on Canadian TV into 2012. Personally, I like Sydney and her 2 secretaries (Claudia and Karen) but Nigel was really weakly cast. He couldn't fight or do anything right except interpret ancient texts which was his field of specialty.
By the way, season 3 had maybe 11 good shows out of the 22 show season with Arthur's Cross, Fountain of Youth, Sydney at Ten, Vampire's Kiss, All Choked Up and Antianeirai being the best of the lot. Other good season 3 shows include--from my view--The Light Of Truth, Incognito, Warlock Of Nu Theta Phi, Under The Ice and the interesting 'Wages of Sydney.' The other half of the season 3 episodes were average to mediocre unfortunately.
I am not sure I've seen all the episodes but yeah some of them were weak. How does the producing system work in Canada? Why would taxe payers pay for a private producing companies TV series?
shareFrom the RH closing credits, it seems like the province of Ontario gave a subsidy or tax credits to get Relic Hunter produced in their province. About 38-39% of Canadians live in Ontario which has the cities of Toronto and Ottawa--Canada's capital--in it. This explains why Tia Carrere was watching many Toronto Raptors NBA games from 1999-2002 in Toronto. She was so close to her workplace at Relic Hunter. So, not all Canadians paid for the production of Relic Hunter--but almost 40% did and some Canadian fans didn't like the product.
I live in British Columbia on Canada's Pacific Ocean coast--in a different Canadian province--and we didn't subsidize Relic Hunter's production but I can understand why some Ontarians were disgruntled that their tax money went to the making of Relic Hunter but they didn't have any say in this decision. Relic Hunter was good with Tia Carrere but Nigel was really miscast. If he couldn't fight fine! Let Tia do the fighting and Nigel do the scholarly work...to find the traps that the ancients left behind or the clues to the ancient's treasure like in Antianeirai. Instead they played him as a guy who wanted to fight and couldn't..and you got ridiculous scenes when he lost a copy of King Henry VIII's poem in 'The Royal Ring' just because he wanted to fight a punk and lost since the punk was....um twice his size and had a gun. That was really stupid.
I liked Incognito in the third season where Nigel had superhuman powers and could show off his muscle but eventually he lost his strength--as expected--and the Gural Nataz caught him and Sydney had to bail him out again.