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WEEK: April 15-21, 2013

BIG READ: CONTINUUM & Cosplay at Fan Expo Vancouver

Published April 21, 2013 on Vancouver is Awesome

A year ago, Fan Expo Vancouver hosted the first panel for Vancouver-cop-from-the-future series Continuum. And what a year it’s been. Continuum debuted on Showcase as an out-of-the-box hit. Almost one million Canadians watched, making it 2012’s  number one cable drama here. Since sold to more than fifty countries around the world. Canadian Screen Award,  Writers Guild Canada and Saturn Award nominations racked up. A debut in January on Syfy in the U.S. which led to rave reviews from The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly TV critics. A second Continuum panel at Fan Expo Vancouver yesterday. And the premiere of a second season tonight on Showcase at 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET. No wonder the cast and creator got giddy yesterday in Ballroom A at Canada Place.

Continuum is part sci fi, part police procedural about a future police officer Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) who travels back in time from Vancouver in the year 2077 to Vancouver today, 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. Cameron ends up being partnered with Vancouver police detective Carlos Fonnegra (Victor Webster) and tasked with bringing down Liber8, with the unexpected help of teen tech genius Alec Sandler (Erik Knudsen), a boy who will grow up to become the head of mega-corp SadTech and seemingly the man responsible for sending Kiera and Liber8 back in time in the first place.

Read More »BIG READ: CONTINUUM & Cosplay at Fan Expo Vancouver

WEEK: February 11-17, 2013

SHOOT: Rachel Nichols and Victor Webster Film CONTINUUM 2×01 at the Vancouver Public Library – Updated

Updated April 21, 2013

Rachel Nichols will hijack Continuum’s official Twitter account @ContinuumSeries at 3 p.m. PT today to answer any questions you may have about her cop-from-the-corporate future show now airing its first season on Syfy in the U.S. Continuum is about CPS officer Kiera Cameron who travels back in time from Vancouver in the year 2077 to Vancouver present-day, caught up in an escape by a group of terrorists — Liber8 — who plan to change the future from the past by targeting the corporations which will come to rule the world.

Continuum began to film its second season here a couple of weeks ago on its police station set at the Plaza of Nations downtown. Often on location, the show was then spotted in Vanier Park filming near the Burrard Bridge and later shooting a stunt-fight in the CBC Vancouver parking garage with Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nicols) in her black hi-tech cat suit. [Update: The following week, the New York Times paid a set visit to Squamish where Continuum was filming scenes involving a helicopter and a wind tunnel.]

Related:  Rain Towers & Stunt for Rachel Nichols at CBC Vancouver

Related: Invisible Green Skin Suit Fighting at CBC Vancouver

On Monday, Kiera Cameron’s Vancouver police partner Carlos Fonnegra (Victor Webster) joined her at a crime scene in Robson Square at the iconic Vancouver Public Library (aka Fringe Division Headquarters for Fringe fans). Someone is shot at a press conference and the detective duo try to determine where the shot came from. I’m embarrassed to admit that three of us watching could end up as unfocused Lookyloos at the crime scene filmed by a steadi-cam crew circling  Nichols and Webster as they looked up at nearby rooftops. We wondered if we were in the camera shot but assumed we would have been asked to move. I like to think that I’m smarter about stuff like this on set, but apparently not.

Read More »SHOOT: Rachel Nichols and Victor Webster Film CONTINUUM 2×01 at the Vancouver Public Library – Updated

WEEK: January 14-20, 2013

Canadian Screen Awards Noms for CONTINUUM & ARCTIC AIR as Best Dramatic Series

Lots and lots of tweets in my timeline from B.C. film & TV people yesterday. The good: filmed-in-Vancouver sci-fi Showcase hit Continuum and northern adventure CBC hit Arctic Air both nabbed first-time Canadian Screen Awards nominations as Best Dramatic Series, along with the filmed-in-Toronto Bomb Girls, Flashpoint and King. The bad and the ugly: Premier Christy Clark’s BC Jobs Plan boosted several industries last week but not our declining film & TV biz, provoking a  SAVE BC FILM petition and a hashtag #SaveBCFilm to wake up the government about the cost to the province of losing film & TV productions to places with better tax credits like Ontario. Among other things, American productions build the infrastructure that make local successes like Continuum and Arctic Air possible.

Back to the good: the made-in and set-in-Vancouver sci-fi procedural Continuum racked up the individual CSA noms too, with a writing nomination for its creator Simon Barry (in the photo below with cast ); a directing nomination for Jon Cassar; a VFX nomination for Adam Stern of Artifex Studios; and an original musical score nomination for Jeff Danna — all for the show’s stunning pilot A Stitch in Time which travels in time from Vancouver in 2077 to Vancouver in 2012.

Joining Continuum as a first-timer in the Best Dramatic Series competition is the filmed-in-Vancouver-and-Yellownife series Arctic Air from Omni Films. The visually-spectacular aerial adventure drama Read More »Canadian Screen Awards Noms for CONTINUUM & ARCTIC AIR as Best Dramatic Series

WEEK: September 24-30 2012