WEEK: May 5-11, 2014
Sunday, May 11th – Two-hour Once Upon a Time season finale (Snow Drifts and There’s No Place Like Home) airs on ABC and CTV. Zelena (Rebecca… Read More »WEEK: May 5-11, 2014
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.
SETS: GRACEPOINT’s Harvey Ridge Hut & Crestview Inn in Victoria
On screen, Gracepoint’s Harvey Ridge Hut in Harvey Ridge Park will look like it’s high on a northern California cliff with a “steep drop off”… Read More »SETS: GRACEPOINT’s Harvey Ridge Hut & Crestview Inn in Victoria
NEW SERIES: Carlton Cuse’s THE RETURNED For A&E Expected to Start Filming June 16th
Update: Deadline Hollywood reports Kevin Alejandro (Arrow’s Starling City Mayor Sebastian Blood) will be back in Vancouver as Sheriff Tommy Moran on The Returned. Mark… Read More »NEW SERIES: Carlton Cuse’s THE RETURNED For A&E Expected to Start Filming June 16th
NEW SERIES: CBC’s Dark Western STRANGE EMPIRE Expected To Start Filming June 11th in Aldergrove
Updated after CBC Upfront in late May. The CBC goes dark and edgy with 1860s western Strange Empire set in Alberta-Montana border country and expected to… Read More »NEW SERIES: CBC’s Dark Western STRANGE EMPIRE Expected To Start Filming June 11th in Aldergrove
PHOTO SHOOT: Crew Test for GRACEPOINT Body Bag Shoot at Victoria’s Island View Beach
Sometime on Sunday evening, Gracepoint Productions used this bit of elevated turf at Island View Beach for a cast photo shoot. I had to leave,… Read More »PHOTO SHOOT: Crew Test for GRACEPOINT Body Bag Shoot at Victoria’s Island View Beach
CANCELLED: THE TOMORROW PEOPLE With Robbie Amell Not Picked Up For Second Season
Remember #AmellWednesdays? The CW gave The Tomorrow People a great launch last Fall, with hash tag #AmellWednesdays in honour of cousins Stephen Amell from Arrow and… Read More »CANCELLED: THE TOMORROW PEOPLE With Robbie Amell Not Picked Up For Second Season
NEW SERIES: The CW Orders iZOMBIE with Rose McIver To Series
Rob Thomas’s TV pilot iZombie flew high at the CW network from the start, along with The Flash, and was picked up to series today.… Read More »NEW SERIES: The CW Orders iZOMBIE with Rose McIver To Series
NEW SERIES: The CW Orders The FLASH with Grant Gustin To Series
For TV pilots, the DC adaption The Flash was a sure thing from the get-go and so it’s not a huge surprise that The CW… Read More »NEW SERIES: The CW Orders The FLASH with Grant Gustin To Series
TRAILER: DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Filmed in BC Forests & Louisiana
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sHMCRaS3ao” /] Apes versus Humans. In Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Andy Serkis’s Caesar leads a growing nation of genetically-evolved apes who… Read More »TRAILER: DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Filmed in BC Forests & Louisiana