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.
Hey kiddo. Pedro Pascal is back on the next The Last of Us with flashbacks of Joel Miller’s five years as Ellie’s Dad in the… Read More »THE LAST OF US: Pedro Pascal Shot Joel Flashbacks Last June in Vancouver
NBC renews medical drama Brilliant Minds, starring Zachary Quinto as an Oliver Sacks-style neurologist, for season 2 of filming in Toronto — with a full… Read More »BRILLIANT MINDS With Zachary Quinto Renewed for Season 2 in Toronto
NBC renews The Hunting Party, starring Melissa Roxburgh, for season 2 — with a full season order of 18 – 22 episodes. The Hunting Party… Read More »THE HUNTING PARTY With Melissa Roxburgh Renewed For Season 2
These huge trees …felt like a fairy tale environment. — Young Mazino about Stanley Park. On Seattle Day 2 of The Last of U season… Read More »THE LAST OF US Seattle Day 2: Dodging Seraphites in Vancouver’s Stanley Park
Ellie’s halting performance of Pearl Jam’s Future Days happened in Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre as the game’s Pinnacle Theater for The Last of Us’s Seattle Day… Read More »THE LAST OF US Seattle Day 2: Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre as Pinnacle Theater
You have a bunch of Americans who got together with a bunch of Europeans and a bunch of Japanese and made a show in Canada,… Read More »BC-Filmed SHOGUN Wins BAFTA: US Showrunner Celebrates Borderless TV
I’ll go back if you want, and I’ll keep going if you want. So what do you want to do? — pregnant Dina. On Seattle… Read More »THE LAST OF US Seattle Day 2: In Vancouver’s Chinatown
John Cena returns on August 21st as the surprisingly lovable anti-hero. Peacemaker in season 2 of the DC Studios series. Related: Peacemaker Season 2: Production… Read More »PEACEMAKER Season 2 Teaser: Production Moved to Atlanta From Vancouver
NBC cancels The Irrational, starring The Flash’s Jesse L. Martin as the “behavioral science guy”, after two seasons of filming in Vancouver. It wasn’t the… Read More »NBC Cancels THE IRRATIONAL With Jesse L. Martin After 2 Seasons in Vancouver