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.
Welcome to the world of bad people making good TV. The first black Bachelor? It happens tonight– but not on real-life ABC series The Bachelor.… Read More »PREMIERE: UnREAL Season 2 With Shiri Appleby & Constance Zimmer Premieres Tonight on Lifetime
Evil triumphs only when good men do nothing. Amazon Prime’s alternate WWII-outcome series The Man in the High Castle is back filming its second season… Read More »RESTART: THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE Resumes Production on Season 2 Today After Sudden Shutdown
Summer camp horror series Dead of Summer is filming in downtown Vancouver. Here’s future Camp Stillwater owner Deb Carpenter (Elizabeth Mitchell) hailing a cab in… Read More »SHOOT: DEAD OF SUMMER’s Elizabeth Mitchell & Dylan Neal in Downtown Vancouver
Synopsis: Small-town clothing store manager Taylor McCall is called up to the big leagues to run a Manhattan clothing boutique after a chance encounter with… Read More »NEW MOW: Hallmark’s MANAGING MANHATTAN with Julianna Guill, Marc Bendavid, Natasha Henstridge & Vivica A. Fox
The Interview image. Seth Rogen might not be back in Vancouver this summer to film Rodney Rothman’s space comedy The Something after all. The Something… Read More »POSTPONED: Space Comedy THE SOMETHING With Seth Rogen, Bill Hader & Zach Galifianakis May Not Film in Vancouver This Summer
Update: Jake Gyllenhaal not coming to Vancouver. Has wrapped his role in Okja. South Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s next English-language film Okja — about… Read More »BIG BUDGET: Bong Joon Ho’s OKJA With Jake Gyllenhaal, Lily Collins & Tilda Swinton Has Vancouver Shoot This August
Something is going down at Sara’s house in New York State today. Is this what brings back the Boys from Yemen? Prison Break is about… Read More »SHOOT: PRISON BREAK Revival at Sara (Sarah Wayne Callies)’s NY House in Vancouver’s Shaughnessy Neighbourhood
Updated: Fifty Shades turned B5 tower in downtown Vancouver into Grey House on Saturday, June 4th. Will the Fifty Shades sequels turn downtown Vancouver’s Bentall… Read More »LOCATION: FIFTY SHADES Expected to Shoot at Vancouver’s B5 Tower as Grey House
One billion+ youtube views. Netflix’s eight-episode half-hour comedy Haters Back Off — based on videos by Colleen Ballinger-Evans — filmed wildly popular youtube character Miranda… Read More »SHOOT: HATERS BACK OFF With Colleen Ballinger-Evans as Miranda Sings in Port Coquitlam