Reopening Hollywood North
Updated:
Hallmark is back in production.
Some of the BC film industry’s 35,000 crew are back to work after a lengthy Covid-19 shutdown as twelve TV movies (some not for Hallmark) start production this month and next.
Related: Hallmark & Other TV Movies First To Resume Production in Hollywood North After 3-Month Shutdowm
One TV movie — For Better or Worse — has already wrapped in Kelowna.
Beverly Hills Wedding starts filming today in Vancouver. And eOne’s Love N Romance, Oregon with American director Danny J. Boyle starts today in Kelowna.
Related Seven TV movies Filming in Hollywood North This Summer in Covid Era.
Hallmark’s The Aurora Teagarden Mysteries is back filming a new instalment in mid-July.
Almost all of the TV movies have Canadian directors and crews. Any cast, directors, creators or crew from outside Canada have to do the government-mandated 14-day quarantine before heading to set.
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Hallmark series When Calls the Heart is facing the same issues filming Elizabeth Thatcher’s love triangle with Mountie Nathan Grant and saloon owner Lucas Bouchard. Season 8 starts production July 20th.
Related: Love Triangle With Social Distancing? When Calls the Heart Season 8 Starts Filming July 20th in Vancouver.
TV Movies.
For Better or Worse – Wrapped.
Director: David I. Strasser from Vancouver.
Dates: June 8th to 23rd.
Three more TV movies — Christmas Forgiveness, Wedding Every Weekend and Kite Festival of Love — started filming in Vancouver last week.
Christmas Forgiveness
Director: Lucie Guest from Vancouver.
Dates: June 22nd to July 10th.
CF signs on mt. Lehman rd!! @WhatsFilming @yvrshoots
— ChefB (@chefbk11) June 22, 2020
Wedding Every Weekend
Director: Kevin Fair from Vancouver.
Dates: June 22nd to July 13th.
Circus for Wedding Every Weekend.
Ok it’s Wedding every weekend I litterly yelled at the PA from my car 🤣 guy was so nice, I welcomed them back on there first day 😁 @WhatsFilming @yvrshoots
— ChefB (@chefbk11) June 22, 2020
Kite Festival of Love
Director: Christie Will Wolf from Toronto.
Dates: June 26th to July 17th.
Two more TV movies — Beverly Hills Wedding and Love N Romance, Oregon — are scheduled to start today.
Beverly Hills Wedding
Director: Paul Ziller from Toronto.
Dates: June 29th to July 19th
Love N Romance, Oregon
Director: Danny J. Boyle from the U.S.
Shooting in Kelowna.
June 29th to July 15th
And two other romances — Destination Wedding and My One True Love — on July 2nd.
Destination Wedding
Director: Jason James from Vancouver.
Dates: July 2nd to 17th.
My One True Love
Director: Heather Hawthorn Doyle from Vancouver.
Dates: July 2nd to July 17th.
Three Christmas movies — Chateau Christmas, A Christmas in Nashville and Deliver it by Christmas — start production in July.
Chateau Christmas
Director: Michael Robison from Toronto.
July 6th to 25th.
A Christmas in Nashville.
Tibor Takacs from Toronto.
July 8th to 28th
Deliver it by Christmas
Directos: Terry Ingram from Vancouver.
July 13th to August 1st.
And the Aurora Teagarden Mysteries series is back filming mid-July.
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
Director: Martin Wood from Vancouver.
July 16th to 29th.
Source: DGC-BC Production List.
