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.

BC-Filmed WHEN CALLS THE HEART Season 10 With Erin Krakow Premieres

by Susan Gittins
July 30, 2023August 1, 2023
Hallmark, When Calls The Heart

BC-filmed When Calls the Heart season 10, starring Erin Krakow, premieres on the Hallmark Channel.

BC-Filmed VC ANDREWS’ DAWN Part 4: MIDNIGHT WHISPERS Premieres

by Susan Gittins
July 29, 2023August 1, 2023
Midnight Whispers, VC Andrews Dawn Cutler Series

Does anyone in V.C. Andrews’ world know who their actual mother and father are? Lifetime’s BC-filmed Dawn series concludes tonight with Part 4: Midnight Whispers, starring Megan Best as Dawn’s daughter Christie.

CAN I GET A WITNESS? With Sandra Oh Wraps Filming in Powell River, BC

by Susan Gittins
July 29, 2023August 1, 2023
British Columbia, Can I Get a Witness?, SAG-AFTRA Strike, Writers Strike

Sandra Oh has wrapped shooting Canadian sci-fi feature Can I Get a Witness? in Powell River, B.C.

BC-Filmed THE ADAM PROJECT, THE MOTHER & THE NIGHT AGENT on Netflix’s Revised Most Popular Lists

by Susan Gittins
July 25, 2023August 1, 2023
British Columbia, Netflix, The Adam Project, The Mother, The Night Agent

BC-shot movies The Adam Project and The Mother and BC-shot TV series The Night Agent all rank in Netflix’s revised Most Popular Lists.

BC-Filmed VIRGIN RIVER Season 5 With Alexandra Breckinridge Drops Part 1 this Fall on Netflix

by Susan Gittins
July 25, 2023August 1, 2023
British Columbia, Netflix, Virgin River

BC-filmed popular romance Virgin River, starring Alexandra Breckinridge and Martin Henderson, drops Part One of Season 5 this Fall on Netflix.

BC-Filmed Feudal Japan SHOGUN Series Premieres in 2024

by Susan Gittins
July 25, 2023March 19, 2024
British Columbia, FX, Shogun

The new BC-filmed Shōgun series premieres on FX and streams on Hulu or Disney+ in 2024.

WHEN CALLS THE HEART Gets SAG-AFTRA Waiver to Film Season 11 in BC’s “Hope Valley”

by Susan Gittins
July 24, 2023March 1, 2024
Hallmark, SAG-AFTRA Strike, When Calls The Heart

Hallmark’s When Cals the Heart, starring Erin Krakow, gets a SAG-AFTRA waiver to film season 11 in Vancouver’s “Hope Valley” — the Jamestown set at Macinnes Farms in Langley.