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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.

PROMOS: SUPERNATURAL 8×14 Trial and Error Promo Images

UPDATE: “If you try to follow me I’ll put a bullet in your damn leg,.” — Dean telling Sam that he loves him.

Some Supernatural fans worried that the new Men of Letters mythology would negate the tablets storyline. Apparently not, as prophet Kevin Tran (Osric Chau) returns next Wednesday to tell Sam and Dean (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles) that he has translated his tablet and found a way to close the gates of Hell. One person has to complete three tasks designed by God, including killing a hellhound. Sam and Dean argue about who should do them.

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SHOOT: Rachel Nichols and Victor Webster Film CONTINUUM 2×01 at the Vancouver Public Library – Updated

Updated April 21, 2013

Rachel Nichols will hijack Continuum’s official Twitter account @ContinuumSeries at 3 p.m. PT today to answer any questions you may have about her cop-from-the-corporate future show now airing its first season on Syfy in the U.S. Continuum is about CPS officer Kiera Cameron who travels back in time from Vancouver in the year 2077 to Vancouver present-day, caught up in an escape by a group of terrorists — Liber8 — who plan to change the future from the past by targeting the corporations which will come to rule the world.

Continuum began to film its second season here a couple of weeks ago on its police station set at the Plaza of Nations downtown. Often on location, the show was then spotted in Vanier Park filming near the Burrard Bridge and later shooting a stunt-fight in the CBC Vancouver parking garage with Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nicols) in her black hi-tech cat suit. [Update: The following week, the New York Times paid a set visit to Squamish where Continuum was filming scenes involving a helicopter and a wind tunnel.]

Related:  Rain Towers & Stunt for Rachel Nichols at CBC Vancouver

Related: Invisible Green Skin Suit Fighting at CBC Vancouver

On Monday, Kiera Cameron’s Vancouver police partner Carlos Fonnegra (Victor Webster) joined her at a crime scene in Robson Square at the iconic Vancouver Public Library (aka Fringe Division Headquarters for Fringe fans). Someone is shot at a press conference and the detective duo try to determine where the shot came from. I’m embarrassed to admit that three of us watching could end up as unfocused Lookyloos at the crime scene filmed by a steadi-cam crew circling  Nichols and Webster as they looked up at nearby rooftops. We wondered if we were in the camera shot but assumed we would have been asked to move. I like to think that I’m smarter about stuff like this on set, but apparently not.

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PROMOS: ARROW 1×14 The Odyssey Promo Images

In next Wednesday’s Arrow, Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell)’s life hangs in the balance. His mother (Susanna Thompson) shoots him after he confronts her dressed as The Hood at Queen Consolidated. And he turns to fan favourite  Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards)  for help. She brings him to  Diggle (David Ramsey) at the warehouse.

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Delirious in the warehouse, Oliver remembers back on the Island when he tried to escape with a new ally Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett), Read More »PROMOS: ARROW 1×14 The Odyssey Promo Images

SHOOT: Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki & the Impala Film SUPERNATURAL 8×17 Downtown

Goodbye Stranger, aired March 20th, 2013

A family visiting from Australia lucked out today when they stumbled on Supernatural filming  in downtown Vancouver to the joy of their 16-year-old son. They didn’t realize how rare it is to see the Winchester brothers (Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki) in the Impala  downtown. Ackles did the driving as usual, reversing  the Impala south down the 1100 block of Hornby Street and then roaring back north and pulling into a spot opposite the Murray Hotel, next to a bike lane. The two Js then ran across the street into the hotel in take after take.

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SHOOT: Josh Dallas, Ginnifer Goodwin & Colin O’Donoghue Filming on ONCE UPON A TIME Pirate Ship Set in Steveston for 2×13

While  Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold, Emma, and Henry leave Storybrooke to find Rumple’s long-lost son Bae in Manhattan, Anton the Giant  (Jorge Garcia) is held captive on Captain Hook (Colin O’Donoughue)’s pirate ship at the Storybrooke docks.

ABC shared some photos with TVLine last week of Charming and Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin)  in a confrontation with Anton, the Giant on the  ship. I arrived too late to see them filming these on the  floating priate ship set at the Britannia Heritage Shipyard set in Steveston last December (I’d been  downtown in Gastown watching OUAT’s first unit filming Manhattan scenes).  I  did get  there in time to  see Ginnifer Goodwin (wrapped in a red plaid blanket) come off the dock and pose for photos with waiting fans taken by Josh Dallas. Lucky fans. 

Bringing the floating set back to dock.

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WEEK: January 28 – February 3, 2013

PROMO: BATES MOTEL “A Boy’s Best Friend is His Mother” Poster

Psycho prequel Bates Motel is expected to wrap filming in Vancouver early this coming week after spending four days shooting its season finale on its spooky Psycho replica motel and house set in Aldergrove from Monday to Thursday..

Related: Psycho replica motel and house set in Aldergrove.

On Friday, A&E shared a creepy new poster and teaser with Entertainment Weekly’s Inside TV. In the Motherly Love teaser, the camera slowly zooms in like a voyeur on teenage Norman (Freddie Highmore) and his possessive mother Norma (Vera Farigma) sitting side-by-side on a bed. You want to scream, Get a Room!, except they’re already in one and this is a mother and son. Is this the relationship which turns young Norman into the killer who stuffed his mother in the classic Alfred Hitchcock horror film? Read More »PROMO: BATES MOTEL “A Boy’s Best Friend is His Mother” Poster

PROMOS: SUPERNATURAL 8×13 Everybody Hates Hitler Promo Images

Next Wednesday’s Supernatural has an odd title — Everybody Hates Hitler. Let me rephrase that. Most of Supernatural’s episode titles are odd but in a good way. I’m not sure about this one but it’s apt.

Sam & Dean look into the death of a rabbi researching Nazi necromancers. And then the golem belonging to the Rabbi’s grandson Aaron attacks them.

Sounds like a good hunt of the week except for Sam & Dean’s attire. Have they become plaid-shirt-wearing preppies since they learned from Grandpa Winchester that they were supposed to be Men of Letters not Hunters?  Maybe, but they are holding guns.

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