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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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YVRShoots Series – Vancouver Sitcom PACKAGE DEAL Live in Burnaby

November 9, 2012 Mr. Young, Package Deal, YVRSHOOTS Series

Published November 9, 2012 on Vancouver is Awesome

Partway through the live taping of Vancouver’ sitcom Package Deal’s pilot episode last night I had to zone out for a bit, exhausted from laughing non-stop for hours. Of course the sitcom is laugh-out-loud funny, although the details are embargoed until after the premiere airs early next year on Citytv. I can tell you that the laughs for the acerbic Harland Williams’s flubbing of his lines were just as big as when he did it right. “That’s not the line,” Williams told the audience. “Stop laughing, I’m sensitive.” Williams, more than anyone else, cracked up his fellow cast members on set. Meanwhile, wrangler/perfomer Dave Dimapalis kept us entertained in the audience between takes by coaxing volunteers to play progressively lewder games. Bachelorette #1 in the Bachelor game quipped “100% down” when asked how she would label herself in a store. Is it any surprise the blindfolded bachelor picked her from three possible candidates? I was rooting for Bachelorette #2 , by the way, who described herself as “a cub not yet a cougar.” And halfway through the taping,: pages came round with pizza slices from the Flying Wedge to keep our energy up.

City-TV Orders New Vancouver-Shot Sitcom #PackageDeal to Series

June 7, 2012 Mr. Young, Package Deal

At the Leo Awards for the best of B.C.-made film and television, Nancy Robertson from cancelled CTV sitcom Hiccups and fellow presenter Ryan Robbins jokingly pitched a new comedy series. Who knew a new Vancouver-shot sitcom was already in the works at City-TV? At last week’s Rogers Media Upfront in Toronto, execs announced a 13-episode order for a new multi-camera sitcom called Package Deal, about a woman who starts dating a single successful lawyer who seems too good to be true until she meets the two older brothers who are part of his package deal. Will he ever grow up and be his own man?

Creator Andrew Orenstein, who’s written for 3rd Rock from the Sun, Malcolm in the Middle and 18 to Life, is tasked with making Package Deal edgy, hip and funny. The yet-to-be-cast comedy will be produced by Thunderbird Films, which already has one hit sitcom in Vancouver – youth-oriented Mr. Young currently filming its third season in front of a live studio audience in a south Burnaby studio. Here are some of my photos of a Friday night taping of Mr. Young last fall, which airs on YTV in Canada and Disney XD in the U.S.

Package Deal, expected to air mid-season on City-TV, might use the same south Burnaby studio as Mr. Young but wherever it sets up it will be the first adult multi-camera sitcom to ever film in front of a live studio audience in Vancouver. Something else to look forward to this year.