Month: June 2016

Michael Denis wraps on EPISODE #108 of Showcase and Netflix’s “Travelers“.

Netflix has come on board Travelers, an original time-traveling sci-fi series starring Eric McCormack (Will & Grace, Perception). Netflix is teaming on the project with Canadian TV channel Showcase, which will air the series in Canada, with Netflix carrying it exclusively everywhere the service is available outside of Canada.

Also cast in the series, which shoots in Vancouver, are MacKenzie Porter, Jared Abrahamson, J. Alex Brinson, Nesta Cooper, Reilly Dolman, Patrick Gilmore, Arnold Pinnock, Dylan Playfair and Ian Tracey.

Created and written by Brad Wright, co-creator of Stargate SG-1 and creator of related franchises Stargate: Atlantis and SGU, Travelers is set hundreds of years from now when the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century.  These “travelers” assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.

These travelers are: FBI Special Agent Grant MacLaren (McCormack), the team’s leader; Marcy (Porter), a young, intellectually disabled woman in the care of her social worker, David (Gilmore);?Trevor (Abrahamson), a high school quarterback; Carly (Cooper), a single mom in an abusive relationship;  and Philip (Dolman), a heroin-addicted college student. Armed only with their knowledge of history and an archive of social media profiles, the travelers discover that 21st century lives and relationships are as much a challenge as their high-stakes missions.

Travelers is produced by Peacock Alley Entertainment Inc., in association with Showcase and Netflix.

Parker Brando books role on Project Mc2.

Project Mc2 (pronounced Project McSquared) is an American web television series produced by DreamWorks Animation’s AwesomenessTV and MGA Entertainment for Netflix.

The original Netflix spy miniseries written by Jordan Arkin and executive produced by Shauna Phelan was initially launched on August 7, 2015.

Season 1 of Project Mc2 has has attracted praise from critics and audiences alike as not too many shows feature young girls in science-related series

Netflix is now going full S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) ahead with Project Mc2, ordering two more seasons of this tween series centered on four super smart and science-skilled girls. The Internet TV network says Season 2 will premiere Friday, August 12 for Netflix members worldwide, and Season 3 will launch in the fall.
The Daytime Emmy-nominated series follows McKeyla (Mika Abdalla), Adrienne (Victoria Vida), Bryden (Genneya Walton), and Camryn (Ysa Penarejo) as they are recruited to join the spy organization, NOV8 (“Innovate”), and work together to save the day.

Trailer:
http://momblogsociety.com/building-confidence-and-knowledge-with-mckeyla-mcalister-and-project-mc2/

Anthony Ames finishes shooting on episodic series Shut Eye.

Hulu has announced its new, original Shut Eye TV show will premiere August 31st.

Jeffrey Donovan has been cast as current psychic and former failed magician, Charlie Haverford. Joining him in the cast of Shut Eye are: KaDee Strickland, Susan Misner, Emmanuelle Chriqui, David Zayas, and Isabella Rossellini.

The series, from creator Les Bohem, Sony TV’s Tri-Star Television and Mark Johnson’s Gran Via Productions, takes a darkly comedic look at the underground world of Los Angeles storefront psychics and the organized crime syndicate that runs them. The story revolves around Charlie Haverford (Donovan), a disgruntled player in the organization who finds his cynical worldview challenged when he starts to experience visions that may or may not be real.
Rossellini will play Rita, the beautiful and sadistic matriarch of the Romani clan.
Shut Eye is executive produced by showrunner Bohem and Gran Via Prods’ Johnson and Melissa Bernstein. The 10-episode series is shooting here in Vancouver with Johan Renck directing.