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5 things to know about Drinkin' Songs: The Collection by MacKenzie Porter
MacKenzie PorterDrinkin’ Songs | Big Loud RecordsGenre : New country/Crossover pop Key Track : Drinkin’ Songs From Medicine Hat to the land of Big Hats by way of Hollywood North, MacKenzie Porter...
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Hollywood North: Good Doctor actor Richard Schiff leaves Vancouver hospital
Veteran Hollywood actor Richard Schiff has been released from a Vancouver hospital where he had been receiving treatment for COVID-19. Schiff and his wife, actress Sheila Kelley, both tested positive...
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Hollywood North: YouTube filmmaker and director Robert Randall goes global...
YAP TVWhen: Continuing Where:YouTube.com With 1.8 million subscribers and numbers growing every week, YAP TV is a growing online force from Hollywood North. Port Moody filmmaker and director Robert...
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Catherine Lough Haggquist and Alvin Sanders honoured by Union of B.C....
The 9th annual Union of British Columbia Performers (UBCP/ACTRA) awards came complete with a red carpet and familiar B.C. faces on Saturday as the venerable organization, like many others, was forced...
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Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs criticizes TV show for failing to acknowledge...
The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC ) is joining other Indigenous groups and tribal leaders in asking the ABC Network to “address and rectify its incomplete depiction of violence against women and...
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Hollywood North: The Flash halts filming after positive COVID-19 test
The CW’s The Flash has suspended production in Vancouver after a team member tested positive for COVID-19. Deadline first reported the development on Nov. 29. According to Deadline’s sources, the...
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This Week in History, 1953: Vancouver's first television station starts...
At 6 p.m. on Dec. 16, 1953, Vancouver got local television. “Western Canada’s first television station, CBUT (2) Vancouver, went on the air Wednesday night with a five-hour, all-film program of...
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Got a good TV series idea? Vancouver production company wants to partner with...
In a kind of pay it forward model, Vancouver TV creator and producer Tyson Hepburn wants to give someone else a chance at a career in TV. Hepburn’s new Tyson Media Productions has just put out a call...
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Hollywood North: COVID casts new light on animal actors
From a production standpoint, shooting during the pandemic has created many new challenges within the Hollywood North industry. “Producing in COVID times is brutal,” says Richard Bullock, a...
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2020 in music: A real showstopper
Approaching 2021 with a healthy dose of cynicism seems sensible after one of the weirdest years most of us have ever experienced. Every bit of good news seems balanced out by an equal number of...
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B.C. film industry saw improvements, frustrations following 2020 pandemic...
When COVID-19 arrived in B.C., the local film industry was perhaps the biggest canary in the economic coal mine. As health officials ordered other industries to shutter, Hollywood North crammed...
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Hollywood North: Animation and VFX are opening up to change under COVID-19...
Pre-pandemic, Hollywood North was humming along. Post-pandemic, Vancouver animation and visual effects studios successfully pivoted to work-from-home solutions and were recognized for award-winning...
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Lighthearted tone a key to Frankie Drake Mysteries' appeal
Frankie Drake MysteriesWhen: Jan 4 (season premiere) Where: CBC and CBC Gem Lauren Lee Smith’s instincts have proven correct. When Frankie Drake Mysteries came along, the Vancouver-born-and-raised...
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Mysterious death of UBC student Elisa Lam the focus of new Netflix docuseries
The mysterious death of Vancouver woman Elisa Lam is the subject of a new Netflix series. Lam, a 21-year-old UBC student visiting Los Angeles, went missing in January 2013. Her body was discovered a...
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Garfield Wilson rides the rails in second season of Snowpiercer
SnowpiercerWhere : Netflix.comWhen : Jan. 26 Garfield Wilson has been sworn to secrecy. He isn’t allowed to divulge anything about the second season of Snowpiercer, the small-screen adaptation of...
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TV premiere: Alan Tudyk stars in the Ladysmith-shot series Resident Alien
Resident AlienWhen : Jan. 27, 7 p.m. Where : CTV Sci-Fi Channel From playing a smart-talking pilot Hoban “Wash” Washburne in Joss Wheadon’s beloved cult space TV western Firefly and movie Serenity, to...
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Hollywood North: WildBrain studio in Vancouver to co-produce new Sonic the...
Netflix, SEGA and WildBrain have announced a new animated Sonic the Hedgehog series titled Sonic Prime. The news lit up websites devoted to the iconic video game character. The Vancouver-based studio...
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Bringing Nancy Drew to life is a big deal when you're a fan
When actor Kennedy McMann found out a few years ago she was going to be playing the famous girl sleuth Nancy Drew in a TV series, the first thing she did was call her mom. “I had grown up with Nancy...
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Vancouver's Steve Hodge sets failing bakeries on the right course in new TV...
In his latest television show, Project Bakeover, Vancouver-based pastry chef and chocolatier Steve Hodge takes on the role of a guardian angel of sorts. Guiding struggling bakery owners back into the...
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Stories like Rustic Oracle must be told, says Carmen Moore
Rustic OracleWhen : Available now Where : VOD on Apple TV, Bell, Cogego, Videotron, Vimeo The ongoing epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is seen through the eyes of an eight...
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