ALASKA DAILY Officially Ends With One Season of Filming in Vancouver
Alaska Daily, starring Hilary Swank as a journalist investigating cases of missing and murdered indigenous women, won’t get a second season.
Susan Gittins
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.
FIRE COUNTRY Star Max Thieriot Directed Tonight’s 2nd-to-Last Episode of Season
Fire Country star Max Thieriot says one of the thrilling things about directing tonight’s episode Backdraft was how the cast responded to the most REAL fire the show has ever had on set in Vancouver.
Vancouver-Shot Series THE IRRATIONAL With Jesse L. Martin on NBC This Fall
New Vancouver-shot investigative thriller The Irrational, starring Jesse L. Martin, will air Monday nights after The Voice this Fall on NBC.
WRITERS STRIKE: Season 2 Casting of THE LAST OF US Put On Hold
Season 2 of HBO’s smash hit The Last of Us is expected to start filming in B.C. in early 2024, but production may be pushed even later depending how long the Writers Guild of America strike lasts.
YELLOWJACKETS 2×07: Teen Rage/Adults Dance
Teen Shauna’s rage after losing her baby in 1996 is intercut with adult Shauna’s joyous dancing In the snow with other survivors in 2021 in episode 7 of Yellowjackets season 2.
Jennifer Lopez’s THE MOTHER Streaming on Netflix. Where Did It Film in BC?
Jennifer Lopez’s big thriller The Mother, filmed in BC, is now streaming on Netflix.
STILL: A MICHAEL J. FOX MOVIE – The Story of A Boy From BC & An Incurable Disease
still: A Michael J. Fox Movie tells the story of a boy from B.C. who rose to Hollywood fame, contracted an incurable disease and used his celebrity to confront it.
KUNG FU Officially Ends After 3 Seasons of Filming in Vancouver
The Shen family restaurant Harmony Dumplings is officially closed. The CW has cancelled the Vancouver-shot reboot Kung Fu, starring Olivia Liang as martial arts fighter Nicky Shen.
Hate Group Drama THE ORDER With Jude Law & Nicholas Hoult Starts Filming in Alberta
Hate Group thriller The Order starts filming in Alberta, with Jude Law as an FBI agent and Nicholas Hoult as a domestic terrorist leader in the 1980s.