BC-filmed YA series Every Year After, starring Sadie Soverall as Percy and Matt Cornett as Sam, premieres next week on Prime Video.
What if your first love was actually your soulmate?
Adapted from Canadian Carley Fortune’s best-selling romance Every Summer After, Every Year After is told over the course of six years and one week in Barry’s Bay – the quintessential lake town.
The novel was inspired by Fortune’s teenage diaries from summers spent at the family home in the real Barry’s Bay in Ontario’s cottage country. Early versions of the TV series set the story In Barry’s Bend, Wisconsin which was an “absolute no from me”, Fortune told The New York Times. She insisted that the show be “explicitly set in Canada”. And so it is, but in British Columbia not Ontario.
Carley Fortune cameos in the series.
What’s Every Year After about?
Percy (Sadie Soverall) and Sam (Matt Cornett) fall in love over six childhood summers together at Barry’s Bay,: spending afternoons on the water and nights working in the family restaurant and curling up together with books — stories for her and medical textbooks for him.
Once inseparable, their romance falls spectacularly apart. A decade later Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral. Their connection is undeniable but is their love bigger than the mistakes of their past?
Other characters: Aurora Perrineau is Chantal; Abigail Cowen is Delilah, Michael Bradway is Charlie and Joseph Chiu is Jordie.
And Elisha Cuthbert as Sam’s Mom, Sue Florek.
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Every Year After – Season One:
Working title: Meet Cute.
Vancouver filming dates: June 04 2025 – September 18 2025
Showrunner: Amy B. Harris.
Cast: Sadie Soverall, Matt Cornett, Aurora Perrineau, Abigail Cowen, Michael Bradway, Joseph Chiu., Elisha Cuthbert
Soundstages: North Shore Studios.
Producers: Reunion Pacific, Amazon MGM Studios.
Vancouver Filming Locations:
.Every Year After shifted the location of” Barry’s Bay” from Ontario’s Cottage Country to British Columbia. with Bowen Island (a short ferry ride from West Vancouver) as the major filming location.
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Our first behind-the-scenes look at Barry’s Bay in ‘Every Year After’! pic.twitter.com/fhHuL3o8qQ
— Every Year After Updates (@EYAseries) July 3, 2025
Every Year After filmed in Snug Cove on the boardwalk, at the Union Steamship buildings and on the Dorman Point Trail.
On the grass with the BC ferry Queen of Capilano in the background.
Sam’s mother’s funeral? In Snug Cove.
On the patio at Doc Morgan’s Pub & Restaurant.
Snug Cove from above.
Disclosure: Stayed in the float home in Snug Cove for two summers.