The Secret Circle

WEEK: July 15-21, 2013

by Susan Gittins
July 21, 2013April 3, 2024
News

Sunday, July 21st – Vancouver-cop-from-the-future series Continuum 2×11 Second Guess airs on Showcase. Directed by creator and showrunner Simon Barry. Cyber attacks on Vancouver’s infrastructure… Read More »WEEK: July 15-21, 2013

BEST of 2012 Lists

by Susan Gittins
January 2, 2013April 3, 2024
Arrow, Falling Skies, Fringe, News, Once Upon a Time, Supernatural, The CW Series, The Killing

Monday, December 31st – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks FOX saving Fringe for a final season as 12th.
Monday, December 31st – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks death of Bobby on Supernatural as 17th.
Monday, December 31st – Television Without Pity names Etta’s death on Fringe as jaw-dropping TV drama moment.
Monday, December 31st – Television Without Pity names the purple haze, aka magic, coming to Storybrooke on Once Upon a Time season one finale as jaw-dropping TV drama moment.
Monday, December 31st – Television Without Pity names Robert Carlyle — Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold — of Once Upon a Time as one of TV’s most valuable performers.
Sunday, December 30th – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks TV welcoming horror shows like The Secret Circle and upcoming Bates Motel as 28th.

Wednesday, December 26th – TVLine names Once Upon a Time’s Snow White & Prince Charming the best romantic couple; Snow White and Emma as best female bonding; and Bailee Madison as young Snow White as most spot-on casting
Wednesday, December 26th – TV Line names Fringe‘s Olivia as the runnerup for most kickass parent and Georgina Haig as POlivia’s daughter Etta the runnerup for most spot-on casting
Wednesday, December 26th – TV Line names Arrow‘s Oliver in pilot’s salmon ladder scene as best display of skin

Wednesday, December 26th – TV Line names Supernatural‘s Benny as the best new character on an established show and Sam & Amelia as runnerup for worst love story
Wednesday, December 26th – TV Line names The Killing‘s Sarah Linden as worst parent
Sunday, December 23rd – BitTorrent ranks Fringe as the 9th most-pirated TV show with 2.3 million illegal downloads for single episode.
Saturday, December 22nd – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks Stephen Amell’s abs on Arrow as 68th.
Friday, December 21st – Entertainment Weekly TV critic Ken Tucker ranks Fringe as the 13th Best TV Show of 2012; EW readers rank it as 8th

Friday, December 21st – Entertainment Weekly names Arrow‘s Stephen Amell a Breakout Star of 2012
Friday, Decmeber 21st – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks Fringe‘s animated homage to Monty Python as 75th
Wednesday, December 19th – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks the harness factory on Falling Skies as 98th.
Wednesday, December 19th – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks a guy exploding on The Secret Circle as 99th.

LIQUIDATION SALE: Cute Clothes from THE SECRET CIRCLE Sale in North Shore Studios

by Susan Gittins
June 6, 2012July 27, 2013
The CW Series

Even when under threat from witch hunters or dark magic, The Secret Circle’s young female witches — played by Britt Robertson, Phoebe Tonkin, Shelley Hennig and… Read More »LIQUIDATION SALE: Cute Clothes from THE SECRET CIRCLE Sale in North Shore Studios

BIG READ – Working the Comic Con Craziness in 2011 – Updated

by Susan Gittins
March 17, 2012August 9, 2015
American Film, Comic Con, Eureka, FOX Series, Fringe, Once Upon a Time, Psych, Sanctuary, Supernatural, USA Network Series, YVRSHOOTS Series

Published July 21, 2011 on Vancouver is Awesome

How’s this for Comic-Con craziness? Twihards starting lining up outside the San Diego Convention Center three days early (on Monday) to be among the six thousand lucky enough to get into The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 1 panel in Hall H, which took place just before lunchtime today. Breaking Dawn 1 was the first panel in Hall H so that Twihards couldn’t ruin Comic-Con like they usually do. What’s even more crazy? That the vampires and werewolves of the mainly Vancouver-shot Breaking Dawn 1 aren’t the most popular panel of the hundreds at Comic-Con 2011. Not even close. That honour belongs to the zombies of AMC TV series The Walking Dead.

Breaking Dawn 1 isn’t even among the most popular of Vancouver-filmed movies and TV series at Comic-Con, which has become less about big movies and more about cult television series in recent years. Locally-shot TV series Pscyh cracked the Top 25 most popular panels and Fringe, Eureka, Supernatural and Alcatraz are all in the Top 50. Breaking Dawn 1 and Underworld Awakening (the fourth in the movie franchise but only the third to star Kate Beckinsale and her vampire cat suit) barely made the Top 50 cut.

Psych presented today to standing-room-only, people-turned-away capacity, with Psych-os either dressed as pineapples or carrying them. Apparently series star James Roday (seen above directing a vampire-themed episode) improvised with a pineapple in the show’s premiere and there’s been one hidden in every episode since. Nominally a detective series, Psych knows how to play to a Comic-Con crowd, with several episodes in its sixth season (now filming in Vancouver) crossing over into genre stuff like vampires, super heroes and Star Trek. In a real casting coup, the original Captain Kirk — William Shatner — plays the father of one of the main cast in an episode filmed Read More »BIG READ – Working the Comic Con Craziness in 2011 – Updated

TV PILOTS: ONCE UPON A TIME, ALCATRAZ and other TV Pilots Await Their Fate

by Susan Gittins
March 17, 2012April 26, 2014
Alcatraz, Once Upon a Time, The CW Series, TV Pilots, YVRSHOOTS Series

Published April 21, 2011 on Vancouver is Awesome. In less than a month, the five American broadcast networks start to unveil their fall plans in… Read More »TV PILOTS: ONCE UPON A TIME, ALCATRAZ and other TV Pilots Await Their Fate