Author Archives: Maureen Goodwill

Emmy O’Leary has finished shooting a role on Vancouver Island on episode #2010 of Chesapeake Shores.

Director: Andy Mikita
Writer: Ann Hamilton

Chesapeake Shores is a Canadian/American drama television series, based on the novel series of the same name by Sherryl Woods, produced by Chesapeake Shores S1 Productions in association with Borderline Distribution. The series had a two-hour premiere on the Hallmark Channel on August 14, 2016. Meghan Ory, Jesse Metcalfe, Treat Williams and Diane Ladd star in the series. John Tinker is showrunner and executive producer.

Storyline: When her younger sister calls her for help in a tight spot, Abby O’Brien packs up her twin daughters and returns to her home town of Chesapeake Shores to help. Abby intends to stay for only the weekend — but the dawning realization that she’s intensely unhappy may inspire Abby to radically reconfigure her life. And at the same time, her fractured family is also coming together for a long-overdue reconciliation — a painful process that may ultimately lead to new clarity — and forgiveness…

Chance Hurstfield is busy taping his lead role on the 20 episode preschool animated series Chip And Potato for DHX Media.

DHX Media Ltd is a leading children’s content and brands company, recognized globally for such high-profile properties as Peanuts, Teletubbies, Strawberry Shortcake, Caillou, Inspector Gadget, and the acclaimed Degrassi franchise. One of the world’s foremost producers of children’s shows, DHX Media owns the world’s largest independent library of children’s content, at 13,000 half-hours. It licenses its content to broadcasters and streaming services worldwide and generates royalties through its global consumer products program. Through its subsidiary, WildBrain, DHX Media operates one of the largest networks of children’s channels on YouTube. Headquartered in Canada, DHX Media has 20 offices worldwide. Visit us at www.dhxmedia.com.

Storyline: set in a brightly coloured, joyful, tightly knit community where every house reflects its animal inhabitants’ tastes and traits, this is an animated comedy drama for the upper end of the pre-school audience. With a wide range of rites of puggy-passage stories, this series captures in a very special, unique, safe, funny and relatable way how to get through major “firsts” when you are a little pug, just five years old.

DON”T MISS THE SEASON 3 FINALE OF iZOMBIE TUESDAY JUNE 27TH!!!

iAVA TRAILER: https://pro-labs.imdb.com/video/vi1439873305?ref_=nm_vid

“Looking for Mr. Goodbrain, Part 2” – Watch it on CW or Netflix!

SEASON FINALE PART 2 – Liv (Rose McIver) uncovers a shocking truth with far-reaching consequences. A reeling Major (Robert Buckley) looks to the future, and Clive (Malcolm Goodwin) gets closure. Meanwhile, Blaine (David Anders) makes a business proposal. Rahul Kohli and Aly Michalka also star. The episode was written by Rob Thomas and directed by Dan Etheridge (#313). Original airdate 6/27/2017.

SEASON 3 FINALE TRAILER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B12z5HJSkmI

Check out the details on the upcoming finale for ‘iZombie’s‘ third season:
http://us.blastingnews.com/showbiz-tv/2017/06/izombie-season-3-finale-liv-on-full-zombie-mode-break-up-with-justin-coming-001802133.html

Sarah Goodwill wraps shooting on Season 2, Episode #208 of Travelers.

Netflix and Canada’s Showcase have picked up a second season of Travelers, their original time-traveling sci-fi series starring Eric McCormack for premiere in 2017. Production on Season 2 of the Canadian-made drama has started in March in Vancouver. Netflix, which carries Travelers globally except for Canada, will debut Season 2 following the series’ second-season airing on Showcase this fall.

McCormack’s schedule already has been set to accommodate both Travelers Season 2 production and the upcoming 10-episode new installment of NBC’s comedy series Will & Grace.

Travelers creator and writer Brad Wright (Stargate SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, SGU) is set to return for Season 2, along with stars McCormack, Jared Abrahamson, Nesta Cooper, Reilly Dolman, Patrick Gilmore and MacKenzie Porter.

“I’m as proud of Travelers as any show I’ve ever been part of,” said McCormack. “And I’m blown away by this extraordinary young cast as any group of actors I’ve ever worked with. That the entire team is Canadian is icing on the cake, which makes my friend, Brad Wright, the cherry on top.”

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.

Season 2 picks up on the group’s realization that their missions might have altered the future in ways they did not predict.

Travelers, which debuted in Canada in October, was the highest-rated new fall series across Canadian Specialty, according to Numeris data. The series’ first season was released by Netflix in December.

Travelers Trailer:

Chance Hurstfield is busy filming a recurring role on SyFy drama series “Ghost Wars”

Syfy The NBCUniversal-owned cable network has acquired the 13-episode series Ghost Wars from Nomadic Pictures, with Simon Barry (Van Helsing) as showrunner and starring Vincent D’Onofrio and Kim Coates.

The drama, set in an Alaskan town overrun by paranormal forces, will premiere in the U.S. on Syfy and elsewhere globally on Netflix.

Ghost Wars is created by Barry, who expands his relationship with Syfy following Continuum and fellow acquisition Van Helsing. Production on the drama started May 1 in Vancouver. The series revolves around local outcast Roman Mercer (Avan Jogia, Nickelodeon’s Victorious,Tut) who must overcome the town’s prejudices and his personal demons if he’s to harness his repressed psychic powers and save everyone from the mass haunting that’s threatening to destroy them all. D’Onofrio (Daredevil), Coates(Sons of Anarchy), Kristin Lehman (Motive) and Meatloaf (Fight Club) star. David Von Ancken (Tut), who previously worked with Nomadic on AMC’s Hell on Wheels will direct.

“Ghost Wars is not just a contemporary homage to classic psychological horror, it’s also an opportunity to tell stories about human politics and how we shape our beliefs and lives based on our individual perspectives and biases,” Barry said in a release announcing the news Wednesday. “Science, humanism, religion and the paranormal all get a seat at the table. I’m grateful that [Nomadic co-chairmen] Chad Oakes and Mike Frislev have assembled such a wealth of talent, both in front of and behind the camera, to hopefully elevate this genre series beyond expectations.”

Ghost Wars is executive produced by Nomadic’s Oakes and Frislev, Barry, Dennis Heaton (Motive) and Von Ancken. Nomadic Pictures will distribute the series within Canada, the U.S. and the rest of the world.

Kyla Wise has wrapped a role on Lifetime’s original movie The Lost Wife of Robert Durst,with Katharine McPhee and Daniel Gillie as Kathie and Robert Durst.

Based on Matt Birkbeck’s book, “A Deadly Secret“: The bizarre and chilling story of Robert Durst, the movie centers on the wife of Robert Durst, subject of HBO’s documentary The Jinx. Young and wide-eyed, Kathie (McPhee) falls in love with charming yet quirky real estate scion Robert Durst (Gillies), only to find their marriage turning stranger, darker and more disturbing as time passes. When Kathie vanishes in 1982, her family and friends are deeply disturbed that her disappearance isn’t taken seriously by police.

While Durst is currently in jail awaiting trial for the murder of his close friend, journalist Susan Berman, the questions linger as to what really happened to Kathie.The Lost Wife of Robert Durst pulls back the curtain on the world of Robert Durst and explores what may have happened between him and Kathie.

The Jinx examined Durst’s ties to his wife’s disappearance and Berman’s death, as well as the 2001 death and dismemberment of his neighbor Morris Black, for which he was tried and acquitted. The HBO series ended with Durst blurting out on a hot microphone that he “killed them all, of course.”

The Lost Wife of Robert Durst is produced by Lincoln Square and Lifetime.

McPhee stars as Paige Dineen on CBS drama series Scorpion, which recently was renewed for a fourth season.

Gillies plays Elijah on CW’s The Originals, which was renewed for a fifth season, and can next be seen in CBS’ new fall drama series Seal Team.

Trailer for Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-JbNg7qz28

Gallery of Pics:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/robert-durst-sordid-timeline-events-gallery-1.2150992?pmSlide=1.2150978

Robert Durst married Kathie McCormack (later Durst) in 1973 and she was last seen alive on January 31, 1982. According to Durst, his wife got on a Metro-North train near their home in South Salem, New York and headed to their Upper West Side apartment, but she never arrived. Durst did not report his wife missing until Feb. 5, 1982.

Don’t miss Ava Frye (left) in her recurring role on iZombie Season 3, Episode 10 and appearing right through to the season finale on CW and Netflix!!!!
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Promo for Episode 10:
“Return of the Dead Guy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb12TJIwrsE

Peyton and Liv find themselves on a surprising wild goose chase; Ravi is terrified when the zombie truth hunters’ plans are revealed; Major finds comfort in an unexpected friend.
https://twitter.com/malcolmjgoodwin/status/872319658346590208

iZombie is comedy/drama crime, horror, television series developed by Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright for The CW. It is a loose adaptation of the comic book series of the same name created by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred, and published by DC Comics under their Vertigo imprint. The series premiered on March 17, 2015.

Gigi Jackman has booked a role in the feature film Distorted aka “Distortion“.
Christina Ricci, John Cusack, and Brendan Fletcher are starring in the independent drama.

Production starting May 28 in Kelowna and Vernon, British Columbia.

Production companies are Minds Eye Entertainment, in association with Bridgegate Pictures and Invico Capitol. Voltage Pictures will handle international rights with Minds Eye International managing domestic and Canadian rights.

Kevin DeWalt and Danielle Masters will produce, with Andrew Holmes and Ben DeWalt Co-Producing.

Rob W. King is directing from a script written by Arne Olsen. Ricci plays an artist who suffers from bipolar disorder and who is recovering from the loss of a child. Plagued by disturbing memories and fears for her own safety, she and her devoted husband (played by Fletcher) move to an apartment building that boasts ultra modern design features and integrated security systems. Ricci’s character begins to suspect something is amiss and seeks the help of a phantom-like investigative journalist, played by Cusack, whose interest is cyber conspiracy.

“Christina, John, and Brendan bring incredible talent to this project,” says Kevin DeWalt, Producer and CEO of Minds Eye Entertainment. “We’re honored to work with such a high caliber of actors and can’t wait for fans to join our characters on this mind-bending story.”

King recently directed “The Humanity Bureau,” a sci-fi thriller starring Nicolas Cage. He also wrote and directed the four-part Netflix original series, “Tokyo Trial”.

Feature film production on “Distorted” will be made in multiple formats including Barco Escape and Virtual Reality .

Movie personnel shoot a scene for the film Distorted at the downtown library plaza in Kelowna on Sunday afternoon.

The movie stars Christina Ricci and John Cusack.

Mike Li has booked episode #208 of Travellers..

Storyline: Travelers is a science fiction television series created by Brad Wright, starring Emmy Award-winning actor Eric McCormack. The series is a co-production between Netflix and Showcase. The first season premiered on Showcase on October 17, 2016. The entire series premiered globally (outside of Canada) on Netflix, on December 23, 2016. The series is seen a hundred years in the future, the surviving humans discover how to send consciousness back through time, into people of the 21st century, while attempting to save humanity from a terrible future. Netflix and Showcase renewed the show for a second season. Season 2 production began in March 2017 ahead of a Canadian premiere in fall 2017 on Showcase followed by a Netflix release.