• 2011
  • 30m
What's in a Name?

Summary What's In A Name? is a quirky, insightful and often irreverent look at the thing we use most and we most take for granted: the Name. View more details

  • 2011
  • 30m

What's in a Name?

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Robb Wells George Wendt Terry O'Reily Terry O'Reilly

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Sep 11, 2011

Countries of origin : Canada

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Filming locations : Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Production companies : Marblemedia

Summary What's In A Name? is a quirky, insightful and often irreverent look at the thing we use most and we most take for granted: the Name. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Sep 11, 2011

Countries of origin : Canada

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Filming locations : Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Production companies : Marblemedia

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What's in a Name? (2011)

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Episode 1 • Sep 11, 2011
Hockey
The players on the Toronto Women's Hockey Team are as gutsy, skilled and competitive as any of their male counterparts. But what they really need is to score is a winning name.
Episode 2 • Sep 11, 2011
Beer
John Graham runs a microbrewery and is launching a brand new craft beer. It has all the right ingredients except one: a name.
Episode 3 • Sep 18, 2011
Car
Steve Dallas has spent six years and two million dollars building an electric car. It's lean and green - but is nothing without a name. Steve puts the pedal to history for inspiration, steering his way around decades of car names to help choose just the right one for his creation. For help he turns to marketing gurus and automotive experts, and gets strapped in with racing legend Paul Tracy. This episode speeds through automotive history from the colourful perspective of their names - from the classics (Thunderbird) to the lemons (Edsel) to the lost in translation (Nova, which means does not go in Spanish!). Buckle up for a fun and bumpy ride into car history, and learn how some of our favorite four wheelers came to own - or disown-their famous names.
Episode 4 • Sep 18, 2011
Baby
Thanh and Mark are about to have a baby. They've got the usual pre-parenting jitters - with one added anxiety: they can't agree on a name for the baby.
Episode 5 • Sep 25, 2011
Chocolate
Bryana Ganong's family has been in the chocolate business for almost 140 years. Now she's created a new confection that's sugary sweet, delightfully delicious and nameless.
Episode 6 • Oct 02, 2011
Cocktail
Dave Mitton ("Mitty" to his clients) isn't your average bartender: he doesn't just pour drinks, he creates them. He's invented a brand new scotch cocktail that needs a name, or it could end up on the rocks (and not in a good way).
Episode 7 • Oct 16, 2011
Restaurant
World renowned chef Susur Lee has opened three restaurants in Toronto over the years, and now he's ready to cook up more culinary delights with his fourth. The new place features everything you'd expect from a kitchen magician-except a name. Lee stirs the past to see what's worked - and what hasn't - in the centuries old tradition of naming restaurants. With help from famous foodies and celebrity gourmands like Kevin Brauch (The Thirsty Traveller), Christine Cushing (Fearless in the Kitchen), and Blue Rodeo's Jim Cuddy, Susur samples restaurant names from the ages that have been savoured (The Savoy Grill), gone sour (Sambo's,) or been roasted for their silliness (Fu King. Seriously...) Tuck into this story of how restaurant names have marinated through history and why they did - or didn't - pass the taste test.
Episode 8 • Oct 23, 2011
Rock Band
We meet a Toronto rock band that is trying to make a name for itself - quite literally. They already have a name - Calling Wendy - but no one's called, so with a brand new sound, they need a catchy name to match.
Episode 9 • Oct 30, 2011
Perfume
Barb Stegemann is a perfumer with an ambitious new product to launch: a fragrance made with rose petals from Afghanistan. She needs a name that both salutes that country's people and honours Canada's war effort there.
Episode 10 • Nov 06, 2011
Wrestler
Greg Longo is known in the Indy wrestling world as Anthony Fiasco. But the name - and the good guy image - just isn't cutting it anymore. Greg is morphing into more of a bad-boy character and needs a name to match.
Episode 11 • Nov 13, 2011
Toy
Linda Stortz is a toy distributor with an exciting new product guaranteed to light up the world of play - if she could only find a name for it.
Episode 12 • Nov 20, 2011
Train
Joanne Reynolds is a passionate about trains. She's a volunteer at the Kettle Valley Railway, where the star attraction is a 100 year old, working steam locomotive that boasts power and prestige - but that lacks a name.
Episode 13 • Nov 27, 2011
Rover
Colonel Chris Hadfield gained international recognition as the first Canadian astronaut to walk in space. Now he and the Canadian Space Agency have a new rover that's ready to explore Mars - but it's not going anywhere until it has a name.
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