B.C.’s own 6′ 4″ actor Christopher Heyerdahl isn’t scary but his characters sure are: from a wraith on Stargate: Atlantis to a triple role as a bigfoot… Read More »ACTOR: Christopher Heyerdahl Isn’t Scary But His Characters Are Like His Upcoming TRUE BLOOD Vampire
In tonight’s hit Vancouver-as-Vancouver sci-fi series Continuum, our VPD detective duo pay a visit to the iconic Vancouver Public Library as part of their investigation into a series of murders in which victims have been drained of endocrine fluid in an effort to save the leader of terrorist group Liber8. Here’s a link to a promo photo of Rachel Nichols’s cop-from-the-future Keira Cameron and Victor Webster’s present-day-cop Carlos Fonnegra examining a corpse. And below are some of my behind-the-scenes photos of Nichols and Webster filming scenes with the medical examiner for episode three’s Wasting Time at the central library, with a prop Vancouver Police squad car and VPD extras in the background.
Originally called Out of Time, Continuum is about a future police officer Kiera Cameron who gets swept up in an escape by terrorist group Liber8 and travels back in time with them from Vancouver in the year 2077 to Vancouver in the year 2012, where she partners with detective Carlos Fonnegra to stop Liber8 from changing the future from the past.
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FOX’s Fringe has been upgraded to marquee Hall H for its final appearance at the annual San Diego geekfest Comic-Con next month. Expected to be on hand… Read More »COMIC-CON: Vancouver-filmed FRINGE, SUPERNATURAL, ARROW & CULT at Comic-Con 2012 – Updated
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On Day 24 of the investigation into the murder of Seattle teen Rosie Larsen, the detective and political storylines intersect. At a downtown government building, Darren… Read More »THE KILLING Films at Vancouver Public Libary on Day 24 of Investigation – Updated
The yet-to-be-cast 13-episode CTV series Motive, about a “feisty female Vancouver detective” solving murders, is the latest TV drama series to let Vancouver play itself. We’ve gone from zero to four in a very short time– possibly five if Endgame is resurrected.
Why now? Some credit the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games for making our city “cool” and recognizable the world over.
While CBC’s hit adventure series Arctic Air mainly films its Yellowknife interiors on permanent sets in Aldergrove and its exteriors in Yellowknife, when the action is in our city, as it was in the wonderfully-titled episode Vancouver is Such a Screwed-Up City, then Vancouver plays itself.
And Showcase’s out-of-the-box hit Continuum features not one but two Vancouvers. In the part sci-fi, part procedural Continuum, a future police officer travels back in time from Vancouver in the year 2077 to Vancouver in the year 2012, swept up in an escape by a group of terrorists — Liber8 – who plan to change the future from the past by targeting the corporations that will come to rule the world. Here’s Rachel Nichols’s officer-from-the-future at the Vancouver Public Library.
Over at SPACE’s upcoming sci-fi and procedural series Primeval: New World, we can look forward to seeing apartment-building-sized dinosaurs and other primeval creatures rampaging through our neighbourhoods like Stanley Park, Coal Harbour and the Olympic Village. Read More »CTV Orders New Vancouver-Set Procedural MOTIVE to Series