Across the River to Motor City

infobox television
show_name = Across the River to Motor City


caption =
format = drama/mystery
runtime =48 min
creator = Denis McGrath
Robert Wertheimer
producer = Wanda Chaffey
David Devine
Bryn Garrison
Denis McGrath
Richard Mozer
Robert Wertheimer
director = Michael DeCarlo
writer = Jocelyn Cornforth
Denis McGrath
Robert Wertheimer
starring = Sasha Roiz
David Fox
Anne Openshaw
Joe Pingue
Howard Jerome
Matthew Deslippe
Raven Dauda
country = CAN
network = Citytv
first_aired = November 22, 2007
last_aired =
num_episodes = 6
imdb_id = 0783303

"Across The River To Motor City" is a Canadian television drama series, that airs on Citytv stations. It debuted November 22, 2007. The series is about an insurance investigator named Ben Ford who works the border in both Detroit and Windsor. The story takes into account the shifting allegiances and ambitions that straddle the Detroit/Windsor Canada/US border.

Benjamin Ford's 30th birthday happens to fall on a fateful day: November 22, 1963, the day of the Kennedy assassination. Coincidentally, it is also the day that his flight attendant girlfriend, Katie, disappears on a flight back from Dallas.

The mystery of what happened to her, and why, consumes the life of Ben Ford; it eventually involves his adult daughter, Kathleen, when Katie's body turns up 40 years later. Family mysteries and intrigue play out against a spectacular backdrop of some of the more momentous events of recent American and Canadian history.

The six-episode series was shot in the Canadian cities of Hamilton, Toronto and Windsor as well as the American city of Detroit.

In April, 2008, Across The River To Motor City won a Canadian Screenwriting Award for Best Dramatic Writing for Denis McGrath and Robert Wertheimer. [http://www.wgc.ca/cscs_awards/2008csawinners.html]

On August 26, 2008, Across the River to Motor City was nominated for 7 Gemini Awards, including Best Dramatic Miniseries, Best Lead Actor (David Fox) and Best Writing in a Dramatic Miniseries. [http://geminiawards.ca/gemini23/proglist.cfm?titid=13009]