I actually remember this show coming on late in the evening or overnight when I was a teen in the 2000s, but I didn't think much of it. It was just another bit of "Can-Con" (Canadian Content) that not even Canadians cares about because we were all watching AmeriCon instead like everyone else in the world... very unfortunately. Anyways, I finally started to look into her and her show once I realized that she was the same person I had seen in various other Canadian shows, showing up in episodes here and there, and she was always memorable. It wasn't until I decided to finally check out what all the fuss over some show called "Degrassi" was that I saw her in it and had to figure out where I had seen her before... Relic Hunter, Due South, and... her very own show. Mostly Canadian shows. Maybe if she was American with an American-based show, Melissa Dimarco would get more noticed and appreciated for her work.
Her work, from what I've seen, is being one of the best movie star interviewers ever. It depends what you want from interviews, I guess. If you want hard-hitting questions, then you won't get it from her. But why would that be necessary when interviewing movie stars about their movies? Instead, what we get is Melissa asking questions that other interviewers may not ask and getting the interviewee to be funny. I bet everyone she's ever interviewed has enjoyed it. Her love for movies really shines through in every episode of her show. She's just fun and she always gets something interesting out of every actor. I loved how when she interviewed Miss Piggy for the sequel to the Muppets movie, she brought up her previous interview with Kermit for the previous Muppet movie, where she had planted a kiss on Kermit... if you know Miss Piggy, then you know that interview had to be fun.
One other review mentioned her voice being annoying, which is the most bizarre comment of all to me, honestly. It's only in some recent episodes that she sound kind of like she's losing her voice, but even now it's far from "annoying". The very opposite. There's a reason why she played the "Hot Teacher" in Degrassi, after all.
I wish I had given this show a chance when I saw it airing on Cable in the early days, as she's one of my favourite Canadians now. I've tried to find full recordings of her early episodes but haven't been able to, just the previews of them that she uploaded to youtube. And that's the other thing... her show is still going! It's gone from cable to the internet now, with videos uploaded to social media, still getting A-list celebrities to do interviews. She's still at it, going into her 50s now (though it's hard to tell, she's one of those
"possibly immortal" people, like Keanu Reeves or Tyra Banks) despite what I'm sure is pretty low returns of any kind... I guess she just does it for the love of it! It's hard to believe some people can be annoyed by someone like this, unless maybe they're just jealous due to all the celebs she's met, I guess.
