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START DATES: It’s American TV Pilot Season – AGENT X, THE FLASH, SEA OF FIRE, WARRIORS, PROOF, EXPOSED, iZOMBIE, BLOODLINES, ONLY HUMAN & BACKSTROM Reshoots

[sz-youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc” /] Are TV pilots a waste of time and money? Kevin Spacey (Netflix’s House of Cards) challenged American TV networks in his keynote address… Read More »START DATES: It’s American TV Pilot Season – AGENT X, THE FLASH, SEA OF FIRE, WARRIORS, PROOF, EXPOSED, iZOMBIE, BLOODLINES, ONLY HUMAN & BACKSTROM Reshoots

SHOOT: FAIRLY LEGAL’s Judge Nicastro Ain’t Riding With Us!

Last Friday night’s Fairly Legal episode on USA Network featured this wonderful scene of Gerald McRaney as Judge Nicastro and Sarah Shahi as Kate Reed fighting their way through transit workers extras after a contract dispute goes array, filmed at the south side of the Vancouver Art Gallery (a former courthouse) on a sunny afternoon in mid-February. As you can see, Judge Nicastro loses his temper and punches a protester near the bottom. And they did it all over again in take after take, with Shahi really getting into it. Between camera setups, the protester extras lounged in the sun with their signs, an odd sight for passersby who did double takes, wondering if this was yet another real protest in Vancouver.

Meatloaf, aka Martin Oday, played the union’s leader Charles McKay and he may have been on set at the Vancouver Art Gallery but I don’t think I photographed him. A pity. I’d love to have seen him.

We’ll have to wait several weeks to see this episode, Kiss me Kate, broadcast on Showcase in Canada.

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