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.
This week’s Arrow episode, The Candidate, showcased Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre. Stephen Amell’s Oliver Queen stood among a crowd in the lobby and then chased a… Read More »LOCATION: ARROW’s Stephen Amell Chase Sequence in Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre
Where’s the Darkness? Emery Barnes Park in Vancouver’s Yaletown is filled with blinding light this afternoon. And Supernatural is filming a scene of Dean Winchester… Read More »SHOOT: SUPERNATURAL’s Jensen Ackles Films in Yaletown’s Emery Barnes Park
Showtime greenlit Cameron Crowe’s dramedy pilot Roadies — about the crew members working behind the scenes for a famous rock band — to series after re-casting Carla… Read More »NEW SERIES: Cameron Crowe’s Showtime Pilot ROADIES With Carla Gugino & Luke Wilson Goes to Series
Update: TNT passed on the pilot. Suburban thriller TNT pilot Home is about the secrets simmering beneath the surface of a seemingly perfect suburban family.… Read More »TV PILOT: Jerry Bruckheimer’s TNT Pilot HOME With Bethany Joy Lenz & Andrew Buchan Films in Vancouver This October
On the morrow after iZombie’s funniest episode yet — Zombie Bro — it was fun to catch up with zombie Liv (Rose McIver) and her… Read More »SHOOT: iZOMBIE’s Rose McIver & Rahul Kohli Film at Vancouver’s Olympic Village
Hook and Mr. Gold sword fighting on the Jolly Roger? Has to be Once Upon a Time filming season five, episode 10 “Broken Heart” on its… Read More »SHOOT: ONCE UPON A TIME’s Colin O’Donoghue & Robert Carlyle Sword Fight on Jolly Roger Set in Steveston
What does a happily-married couple do about a waning sex life? How about a three-way? DirecTV sex comedy You Me Her is filming 10 episodes… Read More »NEW SERIES: Three-Way Sex Comedy YOU ME HER With Greg Poehler & Rachel Blanchard Starts Filming in Metro Vancouver
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R1WiuzIQbM” /] The Truth is Still Out There. Mulder and Scully are back — thirteen years after the television finale of the long-running The… Read More »TEASER: Animated Fox Mulder, Dana Scully & Cigarette Smoking Man in THE X-FILES Teaser
War between Apes and Humans. The rebooted billion-dollar-plus Planet of the Apes franchise — starring motion-captured Andy Serkis as Caesar– starts filming its third installment War… Read More »BIG BUDGET: WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES With Motion-Captured Andy Serkis & Steve Zahn And Live-Action Woody Harrelson Starts Filming This Week in Metro Vancouver