WEEK: December 31, 2012 – January 6, 2013
Sunday, January 6th – ABC’s new Once Upon a Time promo for next week’s 2×11 The Outsider. Sunday, January 6th – Once Upon a Time… Read More »WEEK: December 31, 2012 – January 6, 2013
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BEST of 2012 Lists
- Monday, December 31st – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks FOX saving Fringe for a final season as 12th.
- Monday, December 31st – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks death of Bobby on Supernatural as 17th.
- Monday, December 31st – Television Without Pity names Etta’s death on Fringe as jaw-dropping TV drama moment.
- Monday, December 31st – Television Without Pity names the purple haze, aka magic, coming to Storybrooke on Once Upon a Time season one finale as jaw-dropping TV drama moment.
- Monday, December 31st – Television Without Pity names Robert Carlyle — Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold — of Once Upon a Time as one of TV’s most valuable performers.
- Sunday, December 30th – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks TV welcoming horror shows like The Secret Circle and upcoming Bates Motel as 28th.
- Wednesday, December 26th – TVLine names Once Upon a Time’s Snow White & Prince Charming the best romantic couple; Snow White and Emma as best female bonding; and Bailee Madison as young Snow White as most spot-on casting
- Wednesday, December 26th – TV Line names Fringe‘s Olivia as the runnerup for most kickass parent and Georgina Haig as POlivia’s daughter Etta the runnerup for most spot-on casting
- Wednesday, December 26th – TV Line names Arrow‘s Oliver in pilot’s salmon ladder scene as best display of skin
- Wednesday, December 26th – TV Line names Supernatural‘s Benny as the best new character on an established show and Sam & Amelia as runnerup for worst love story
- Wednesday, December 26th – TV Line names The Killing‘s Sarah Linden as worst parent
- Sunday, December 23rd – BitTorrent ranks Fringe as the 9th most-pirated TV show with 2.3 million illegal downloads for single episode.
- Saturday, December 22nd – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks Stephen Amell’s abs on Arrow as 68th.
- Friday, December 21st – Entertainment Weekly TV critic Ken Tucker ranks Fringe as the 13th Best TV Show of 2012; EW readers rank it as 8th
- Friday, December 21st – Entertainment Weekly names Arrow‘s Stephen Amell a Breakout Star of 2012
- Friday, Decmeber 21st – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks Fringe‘s animated homage to Monty Python as 75th
- Wednesday, December 19th – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks the harness factory on Falling Skies as 98th.
- Wednesday, December 19th – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks a guy exploding on The Secret Circle as 99th.
WEEKS: December 17-30, 2012
- Friday, December 28th – SPACE channel marathon of Vancouver’s own dinosaur procedural Primeval: New World
- Tuesday, December 25th – Arrow star Stephen Amell marries long-time girlfriend Cassandra Jean at sunset ceremony in the Caribbean.
- Saturday, December 22nd – Psycho prequel series Bates Motel begins its holiday hiatus. Returns January 7th, 2013.
- Saturday, December 22nd – Vancouver sitcom Package Deal begins its holiday hiatus. Returns January 7th, 2013.
- Friday, December 21st – Fringe airs tenth episode of its final season featuring Olivia, Peter, Walter, Nina Sharp and the child Observer Michael filming in downtown Vancouver, the tragic but brave death of a favourite character and the answer to the question, Who is Donald?
- Friday, December 21st – Sitcom Package Deal tapes in front of a live studio audience in Burnaby
- Friday, December 21st – Bates Motel films at the Psychiatric Assessment building in the Burnaby Youth Detention Centre.
- Friday, December 21st – Supernatural begins its holiday hiatus. Returns January 8th, 2013.
- Friday, December 21st – Falling Skies wraps filming of its third season.
- Thursday, December 20th – Vancouver detective series Motive begins its holiday hiatus. Returns January 6th, 2013.
- Wednesday, December 19th – USA Network renews Psych for eighth season of filming. Here are the crime-fighting quartet — Shawn, Gus, Lassie & Jules.
- Wednesday, December 19th – Once Upon a Time casts Rose McGowan as younger Cora.
- Wednesday, December 19th – Once Upon a Time begins its holiday hiatus. Returns January 3rd, 2013.
- Wednesday, December 19th – Emily Owens MD studio liquidation 10AM-6PM at North Shore Studios
- Wednesday, December 19th – Second day of Supernatural filming inside Langara College library.
- Tuesday, December 18th – Supernatural films inside Langara College library
- Tuesday, December 18th – TV Guide reports Battlestar Galactica’s Baltar, aka James Callis, cast on Arrow.
- Monday, December 17th – Vancouver dinosaur procedural Primeval: New World mid-season finale directed by Amanda Tapping Read More »WEEKS: December 17-30, 2012
Merry Christmas & Happy Holiday Hiatus – Updated
Holiday Hiatus from Filming: Arrow season one – returns January 2nd, 2013 Once Upon a Time season two – returns January 3rd, 2013 Motive season one –… Read More »Merry Christmas & Happy Holiday Hiatus – Updated
WEEK: December 10-16, 2012
- Sunday, December 16th – Noah Wyle and Will Patton film Falling Skies dream sequence in Gastown’s Coffee Bar.
- Friday, December 14th – Arrow begins its holiday hiatus. Returning January 2, 2013.
- Friday, December 14th – Cult wraps filming of its 1st season (technically Saturday at 2:30 a.m.). Premieres Tuesday, February 19, 2013 on The CW.
- Friday, December 14th – Fringe airs the ninth episode of its final season with Walter on acid trip featuring the return of Dr. Carla Warren in a hallucination filmed in NYC taxicab and later the Fringe team searching for Donald’s signal at the Britannia Heritage Shipyards park in Steveston.
- Friday, December 14th – Sitcom Package Deal tapes in front of a live studio audience in Burnaby.
- Friday, December 14th – A&E releases the first promotional trailer for upcoming series Bates Motel
- Friday, December 14th – Fringe showrunner Joel Wyman shares images of the series finale wtih commentary on EW.com
- Friday, December 14th – After five seasons – four of them filmed in Vancouver — Fringe wraps filming for good in early daylight at The Bridge Studios in Burnaby. My post for Vancouver is Awesome.
- Thursday, December 13th – Arctic Air wraps filming of its second season (technically Friday at 3:00 a.m.) which premieres January 9th, 2013 on the CBC. Episode director Amanda Tapping shares a photo of herself and Adam Beach on set.
- Thursday, December 13 – CTV announces Vancouver detective series Motive , starring Kristin Lehman and Louis Ferreira, will debut in a prime post-Superbowl spot on Feburary 3rd next year.
- Thursday, December 13th – Once Upon a Time films chase scenes in Gastown Read More »WEEK: December 10-16, 2012
WEEK: December 3-9, 2012
- Friday, December 7th – Fringe‘s eighth episode of its final season featured Peter Bishop vs Captain Windmark with Peter anticipating and redirecting Windmark’s movements plus a pivotal POlivia scene on the Vancouver Art Galley roof looking down on Windmark walking through the rainy plaza.
- Friday, December 7th – Fringe films its final episode in studio and at a house in Burnaby.
- Friday, December 7th – Arctic Air‘s Adam Beach and Pascale Hutton at CBC Vancouver Open House.
- Friday, December 7th – Continuum appears on the B.C. Production List. Filming of second season to start on January 16th and wrap around the end of May, 2013.
- Friday, Decmeber 7th – Battlestar Galactica prequel Blood and Chrome‘s finale – ninth and tenth episodes online.
- Thursday, December 6th – Fringe films its final episode in studio and then at night in the tunnel off Skeena leading to the 2nd Narrows Bridge.
- Thursday, December 6th – TVLine reports Gregory Itzin cast on Once Upon a Time as Frankenstein’s father.
- Wednesday, December 5th – Fringe‘s main unit films downtown in underground parking at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and in and around Oceanic Plaza until 2 a.m. Its second splinter unit films under the Cambie Bridge with showrunner Joel Wyman directing Lance Reddick.
- Wednesday, December 5th – Supernatural mid-season finale featured scenes of Dean, his Purgatory pal Benny & the Impala filmed at the Britannia Shipyards in Steveston
- Wednesday, December 5th – Arrow’s eighth episode – Arrow vs The Huntress.
- Wednesday, December 5th – Emily Owens M.D. wraps filming of its final episode.
- Wednesday, December 5th – Vancouver detective series Motive films on Pender and inside and outside the Victorian Hotel downtown.
- Wednesday, Decmeber 5th – Amanda Tapping directs Arctic Air episode filmed in Burnaby as Calgary and featuring a guest appearance by Dragon’s Den dragon David Chilton as himself.
- Tuesday, December 4th – Fringe films driving scenes with Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble and Jasika Nicole in a van and then Lance Reddick in a black car Read More »WEEK: December 3-9, 2012
WEEK: November 26 – December 2, 2012
- Sunday, December 2nd – Once Upon a Time mid-season finale. Queen of Hearts, 2×09, features Snow & Emma vs Cora & Hook in a fight for the compass. A Charming family reunion in Storybrooke. And two villains heading into Storybrooke on a pirate ship.
- Sunday, December 2nd – Whistler Film Festival wraps.
- Sunday, December 2nd – Glen Schaefer interview with Twilight scribe and Red Widow showrunner Melissa Rosenberg in the Province reveals Camille Sullivan is FBI agent in the Russian mob series.
- Saturday, December 1st – Fringe showrunner Joel Wyman reveals series finale episode title – An Enemy of Fate.
- Saturday, December 1st – 100th episode party for Fringe at Fairmont Pacific Rim with JJ Abrams, Joel Wyman, Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Jasika Nicole, Seth Gabel, Blair Brown and crew. Video of the party with interviews.
- Saturday, December 1st – Arrow Christmas Party. Photo by fight coordinator James Bamford.
- Saturday, December 1st – Twilight scribe and Red Widow showrunner Melissa Rosenberg honoured for her screenwriting at Whistler Film Festival.
- Friday, November 30th – American TV critics visit Stephen Amell in costume as Hood for Arrow on top of Bentall parkade downtown. Filming police raid overnight.
- Friday, November 30th – American TV critics visit Supernatural on set at start of filming episode 8×13.
- Friday, November 30th – HuffPost TV reports Gil McKinney cast as time traveller Henry in Supernatural episode 8×12 filmed partly in Gastown alley on Tuesday.
- Friday, November 30th –Arrow casts Spartacus star Manu Bennett as the man behind Deathstroke in the Island flashbacks.
- Friday, November 30th – Battlestar Galactica prequel Blood and Chrome with Ben Cotton — seventh and eighth webisodes online.
- Friday, November 30th – A&E releases two short teasers of Bates Motel to TVLine.
- Thursday, November 29th – Arrow films Katie Cassidy and Colin Donnell in Oceanic Plaza and a police station night shoot on Eveleigh near the Bentall Centre.
- Wednesday, November 28th -Filming of Supernatural‘s cartoontastic episode 8×8 featured new demon-hunting trio Sam & Dean & Cas photographed laughing in the Impala and a cartoon suicide off the Lumbermens’ Building.
- Wednesday, November 28th – So that was the Huntress`s stunt double on a motorcycle roarring towards me on a downtown sidewalk for Arrow episode 1×7. And Stephen Amell`s foot chase was done in two separate shoots.
- Wednesday, November 28th – Whistler Film Festival begins. Runs until December 2nd.
- Wednesday, November 28th – Sarah McLachlan holiday classic debuts on radio. My photos of music video shoot for Read More »WEEK: November 26 – December 2, 2012
WEEK: November 19-25, 2012
- Sunday, November 25th – Once Upon a Time‘s episode 2×08, Into the Deep featuring Colin O’Donoghue as Hook and Barbara Hershey as Cora.
- Sunday, November 25th – Sarah McLachlan holiday music video shoot on West 13th in Vancouver.
- Friday, November 23rd – DirectTV’s Rogue wraps filming of its first season of 10 episodes.
- Friday, November 23rd – Battlestar Galactica prequel Blood and Chrome with Ben Cotton — fifth and sixth webisodes online.
- Friday, November 23rd – Vancouver detective series Motive films at a Japanese restaurant on Burrard Street, then on East Georgia and Princess Street in the Downtown Eastside.
- Thursday, November 22nd – Sitcom Package Deal films its fifth episode in front of a live studio audience in Burnaby.
- Thursday, November 22nd – Arrow films at a warehouse complex in the 1600 block of Franklin in east Vancouver.
- Thursday, November 22nd – American Thanksgiving holiday for many US productions filming here.
- Wednesday, November 21st – Once Upon a Time films a process trailer scene with Regina’s Mercedes in Steveston.
- Tuesday, November 20th – Emily Owens M.D.’s fifth episode airs on The CW.
- Tuesday, November 20th – A&E releases first image of Freddie Highmore as Norman Bates and Vera Farmiga as his Mother on set in Aldergrove for upcoming Psycho prequel series Bates Motel via Movieline.
- Tuesday, November 20th – Press day at Rogue with Thandie Newton while Maron Csokas and Ian Tracey film at the Burrard Ironworks building near the Main Street Overpass.
- Monday, November 19th – Vancouver dinosaur procedural Primeval New World‘s fourth episode features B.C. Bud, Patrick Gilmore, Leggy, Angry Birds and a Hot Box filmed mainly in New Westminster Read More »WEEK: November 19-25, 2012
WEEK: November 12-18, 2012
- Sunday, November 18th – Once Upon a Time pre-empted by American Music Awards. New episode 2×08, Into the Deep, airs next Sunday.
- Sunday, November 18th – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 2 boasts a US$349 million global opening weekend via Deadline.com.
- Saturday, November 17th – Bates Motel films at the HI Vancouver Jericho Beach Hostel.
- Friday, November 16th – Red Widow wraps filming of its first order of eight episodes set to premiere early next year on ABC.
- Friday, November 16h – On Fringe‘s ep. 5×07 Joshua Jackson’s Peter tracks Observer lieutenants on Hastings West and Blair Brown returns as silver-haired Nina Sharp in her wheelchair filmed on the Olympic Village seawall.
- Friday, November 16th – Fringe films pickup scenes with the panelled blue mini-van in Chinatown.
- Friday, November 16th – Battlestar Galactica prequel Blood and Chrome with Ben Cotton – third & fourth webisodes online.
- Friday, November 16th – Mr. Cranky Pants lives. CBC releases season two teaser for Yellowknife and Vancouver-filmed Arctic Air which moves to Wednesday nights in its second season next year.
- Thursday, November 15 – Midnight screenings of blockbuster The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 2. which was filmed in Vancouver, Squamish and Whistler.
- Thusrday, November 15th – Arrow films police chase & shootout featuring Seth Gabel as season one’s big bad Vertigo on the second level of the Front Street parkade in New Westminster.
- Thursday, November 15th – Sitcom Package Deal films its fourth episode in front of a live studio audience in Burnaby.
- Thursday, November 15th – Bates Motel films on its permanent motel and Bates house set in Aldergrove, a replica of the Alfred Hitchcock set from his classic horror film Psycho.
- Thursday, November 15th – Vancouver detective series Motive films out in Aldergrove.
- Thusrday, November 15th – Red Widow films near Victory Square.
- Wednesday, November 14th – Misha Collins’s Castiel returns on Supernatural 8×07 & meets with Amanada Tapping (Stargate/Sanctuary)’s angel Naomi. Watch your back Cas.
- Wednesday, November 14th – The Royal Flush Gang robs Starling Trust Bank on Arrow‘s ep. 1×06 filmed in the Read More »WEEK: November 12-18, 2012