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RENEWED: Vancouver Whydunit MOTIVE Gets Second Season on CTV

May 8, 2013 Motive

CTV renewed Vancouver crime drama Motive for a second season today. The #1 new Canadian series of the broadcast year is averaging 1.1 million viewers per murder here. The season finale about a young killer who’s about to kill again – The One Who Got Away — is scheduled for Thursday, May 16th. And a week later, Motive will debut on American network ABC (CTV plans to simulcast what will be encore episodes for Canadians).

A twist on procedurals, Motive is a whydunit which focuses on why a murder is committed in the first place instead of the regular whodunit which focuses on who did it. The Killer and The Victim are revealed to the audience at the top of the show and we follow detectives Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman) and Oscar Vega (Louis Ferreria) as they uncover the reasons behind the murder.

Motive airs Thursday nights at 10 p.m. on CTV in Canada and on ABC in the U.S. (beginning May 23rd)

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PROMOS: Vancouver Whydunit MOTIVE Debuts on ABC on May 23rd

April 23, 2013 Motive

Has anyone else noticed the slick new promo for Vancouver crime drama Motive in commercial breaks of ABC’s Once Upon a Time and Castle? Motive debuts on ABC on Thursday, May 23rd.

A One of a Kind Series. Where You Know the Killer Before They Do. It’s not Who Did It. It’s Why.

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SHOOT: Lauren Holly as Dr. Betty Rogers in Downtown Vancouver for MOTIVE 1×07

March 28, 2013 Motive

Ahead of a new episode of hit Vancouver crime drama Motive on CTV tonight, here’s Lauren Holly (NCIS) as lead medical examiner Dr. Betty Rogers on set for last week’s Out of the Past at the Ash Market downtown. I didn’t know she was in the cast then or that I’d photographed her in an egg blue rain slicker in the October rain on my way to the Vancouver Film Festival.

Dr. Betty Rogers determines that the killer slashed shop owner Hank Cousineau’s throat when he was sitting in a chair at the back of his news shop and then watched as the victim bled to death. A particularlyunpleasant killer.

SHOOT: Vancouver as Toronto for MOTIVE 1×06

March 17, 2013 Motive

CTV promoted Vancouver crime drama Motive from Sunday nights to Thursday nights this week, with downtown Vancouver playing Toronto in the sixth episode of the whydunit The killer in Detour is a Toronto police officer named Barry Ketchum (Aidan Devine) who commits the murder on the west coast and is tracked back to Ontario by Vancouver homicide detective Angie Flyn (Kristin Lehman). Crew filmed a scene on Homer Street last December of Ketchum arriving home from the airport in a prop Toronto taxi with the Victorian Hotel as his Toronto apartment building. And filmed other scenes of Detective Flyn confronting Ketchum inside Belkin House as his Toronto police station. Add a few green screens of the CN Tower and Motive did a credible job of faking Toronto in Vancouver.

CTV’s Vancouver Crime Drama Hit MOTIVE Wraps Filming of Its First Season

February 26, 2013 Motive

Motive Cast — Brendan Penny, Lauren Holly, Louis Ferreira, Kristin Lehman and Roger Cross — CTV promo image

The murder is just the beginning. There’s always a motive and Vancouver homicide detective Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman) will find it. Filming wrapped last Friday on Motive’s thirteen-episode first season.

Motive debuted in a prime but delayed post-Super Bowl slot on CTV to 1.23 million Canadians, the culmination of an unprecedented publicity campaign by CTV for a Canadian show. Normally, only CTV’s American simulcast shows get this scale of rollout. And in a sweet twist, American network ABC has picked up the Vancouver crime drama for broadcast this summer.

Ratings held steady after Motive’s move to its regular 9 p.m. on Sundays slot, dipping for the second episode but rising back over one million for the third episode, to give Canada’s #1 new drama a series-to-date average of 1.06 million viewers.

Instead of a regular whodunit that focuses on who did the crime, Motive is a whydunit that focuses on why the crime was committed in the first place. The Killer and The Victim are revealed to the audience at the top of the show and we follow detectives Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman) and Oscar Vega (Louis Ferreria) as they uncover the reasons behind the murder.

YVRSHOOTS Series – Vancouver Crime Drama MOTIVE Debuts This Sunday After Superbowl on CTV

January 31, 2013 Motive, YVRSHOOTS Series

Published January 31, 2013 on Vancouver is Awesome.

CTV has given the debut of its new Vancouver crime drama Motive a prime spot on its schedule — the post-Superbowl slot this Sunday. In a new twist on procedurals, Motive reveals the killer and the victim at the start of each of episode or as the show’s tagline puts it — The Murder is Just the Beginning. Then we follow along with “feisty female Vancouver detective” Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman) and her partner Oscar Vega (Louis Ferreira) as they investigate the case and discover what motive drove the killer to murder.

The Foundation Features and Lark Productions series created by Dexter writer Daniel Cerone began filming thirteen episodes in the city last September and wraps its first season late next month. If I hadn’t heard that Kristin Lehman had been cast as single mother and damn fine detective Angie Flynn, I might not have recognized her in Olympic Plaza at The Village on False Creek last October. There’s very little of her haughty blue-blooded political campaign consultant Gwen Eaton from The Killing in this new character sporting a leather jacket, kickass boots and permed hair.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holiday Hiatus – Updated

December 22, 2012 Arrow, Bates Motel, Continuum, Motive, Once Upon a Time, Package Deal, Supernatural

Holiday Hiatus from Filming:

Arrow season one - returns January 2nd, 2013

Once Upon a Time season two – returns January 3rd, 2013

Motive season one - returns January 6th, 2013

Bates Motel season one - returns January 7th, 2013

Package Deal season one - returns January 7th ,2013

Supernatural season eight – returns January 8th, 2013

Continuum season two - starts January 16th, 2013 [update: delayed to January 23rd]

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Kristin Lehman and Louis Ferreira Film CTV’s MOTIVE in Downtown Vancouver for 1×07 – Updated

October 21, 2012 Motive

Updated March 21st, 2013, the night 1×07 Out of the Past aired.

I only saw Louis Ferreira’s Col. Young once on location for Stargate Universe (SGU), so I didn’t recognize Ferreira on a wet Friday night more than a week ago as Vancouver detective Oscar Vega for midseason CTV series Motive. I should have known from Kristin Lehman’s laughter who her detective partner is. Ferreira is known for serious, dramatic and sometimes psychotic roles but is a crazy, wild, hilarious cutup of a guy out of character.

Motive filmed its crime scene in the rain at the corner of Howe and Nelson in the Ash Market with prop Metro Police cars flashing (not with actual Vancouver Police decals like Continuum uses). The show’s twist is to reveal the killer at the start of each episode and then let us follow along the detectives’ efforts to solve the murder and uncover the reasons behind it.

Kristin Lehman from The Killing is the lead as “feisty female Vancouver detective” Angie Flynn, a divorced, single Mom solving murders on a series populated with other Canadian actors. In fact, Peter Kelamis just tweeted he has been cast as a guest actor so we can look forward to an SGU Brody-Col. Young reunion on screen sometime in 2013.

Kristin Lehman as Vancouver Detective Angie Flynn Filming at the Olympic Village for CTV’s MOTIVE – Updated

October 2, 2012 Motive

If I hadn’t heard that Motive cast Kristin Lehman as divorced, single mother Angie [Flynn], a ”feisty female Vancouver detective” solving murders in the midseason 13-episode CTV series, I might not have recognized her today in Olympic Plaza at The Village on False Creek. There’s very little of “Lady Eaton”, as her political campaign consultant Gwen Eaton on The Killing was known, in this new character Angie [Flynn] with her leather jacket, kickass boots and permed hair.

Motive’s twist is to reveal the killer at the start of each episode and then let us follow along Angie [Flynn]‘s efforts to solve the murder and uncover the reasons behind it. One of today’s scenes was of [Flynn] talking with someone over coffee at a makeshift cafe at the northeast corner of Olympic Plaza.

Kristin Lehman Is Vancouver Detective Angie [Flynn] on CTV’s Motive – Updated

September 2, 2012 Motive

Kristin Lehman from The Killing will star as ”feisty female Vancouver detective” Angie [Flynn] solving murders in the 13-episode midseason CTV series, which starts filming here on September 17th.

Here she is last April as feisty political campaign consultant and murder suspect Gwen Eaton, relaxing in between takes of a scene for The Killing with Alan Dale as her Senator father at the Vancouver Public Library.

Motive’s twist is to reveal the killer at the start of each episode and then let us follow along divorced single Mom Angie Snow’s efforts to solve the murder and uncover the reasons behind it. “The audience navigates the twisted and complicated maze of each murder and solves the puzzle alongside the detective and her team,.” according to the CTV release. Daniel Cerone from The Mentalist and Dexter wrote the pilot and Trish Williams will direct it. Motive is produced by Vancouver’s Foundation Pictures and Lark Productions.