Longtime mainstream media (MSM) journalist and author Susan Gittins began writing about and photographing Vancouver’s many film and TV location shoots in the summer of 2010 after the Winter Olympics put the city and its beauty on the world stage. Movies and TV series often showcase the Vancouver area in similar fashion. Vancouver is Awesome commissioned her YVRShoots series in the fall of 2010 and it ran regularly for three years. She launched her own daily YVRShoots blog in the spring of 2012.
After almost 100 days of not talking, negotiators for the eight Hollywood studios/streamers that make up the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) will meet with the striking Writers Guild of America on Friday.
At GalaxyCon on the weekend, Arrow star Stephen Amell’ called the strike by his union SAG-AFTRA a “reductive negotiating tactic” and “incredibly frustrating”, in response to a question from a fan.
Freeform’s hit mystery series Cruel Summer had big 1999 scenes filmed in Cloverdale of Megan (Sadie Stanely) handing out missing-person posters around Chatham after Luke (Griffin Gluck)’s disappearance for its season 2 finale.
Vancouver-as-Vancouver series Family Law, starring Jewel Staite and Victor Garber, has its season 2 finale tonight on GlobalTV.
CTV’s Sight Unseen series, about a blind former homicide detective solving past cases with the help of a visual assistance guide, starts filming in Vancouver, with a SAG-AFTRA waiver.
Arrow’s Stephen Amell and The Flash’s Grant Gustin reunite at GalaxyCon in Raleigh.
BC-filmed When Calls the Heart season 10, starring Erin Krakow, premieres on the Hallmark Channel.
Does anyone in V.C. Andrews’ world know who their actual mother and father are? Lifetime’s BC-filmed Dawn series concludes tonight with Part 4: Midnight Whispers, starring Megan Best as Dawn’s daughter Christie.
Sandra Oh has wrapped shooting Canadian sci-fi feature Can I Get a Witness? in Powell River, B.C.