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SciFi Wire: Sanctuary's Tapping Does It All:
At SciFi Wire:
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12:00 AM, 03-OCTOBER-08
Sanctuary's Tapping Does It All
Amanda Tapping, star and executive producer of SCI FI Channel's new series Sanctuary, told reporters that she also directs when called upon.
"God, man! Are you insane? Shoot me now!" Tapping said in a group interview at SCI FI's digital press weekend in Estes Park, Colo., last weekend. "I'm actually the go-to director, so I have directed Sanctuary. Not an episode. [Director and executive producer] Martin [Wood] had to do a talk at the Vancouver Television Festival, and so I was directing that day..."
**snippage**
At SciFi Wire:
(Please follow the link for the complete article.)
12:00 AM, 03-OCTOBER-08
Sanctuary's Tapping Does It All
Amanda Tapping, star and executive producer of SCI FI Channel's new series Sanctuary, told reporters that she also directs when called upon.
"God, man! Are you insane? Shoot me now!" Tapping said in a group interview at SCI FI's digital press weekend in Estes Park, Colo., last weekend. "I'm actually the go-to director, so I have directed Sanctuary. Not an episode. [Director and executive producer] Martin [Wood] had to do a talk at the Vancouver Television Festival, and so I was directing that day..."
**snippage**
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Canada - Vancouver Province: Sanctuary fires it up a big, fat notch:
At the Vancouver Province (Vancouver, BC, Canada):
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Sanctuary fires it up a big, fat notch
Glen Schaefer, The Province
Published: Friday, October 03, 2008
SERIES PREMIERE
Sanctuary
When and where: Tonight at 8 on Movie Central
It was a rare day on the Burnaby sound stages of the new sci-fi series Sanctuary, as legendary inventor Nicholai Tesla led a team of monster-hunters through a mountain tunnel.
The show's stories put historical figures like Tesla in the mix with fanciful creatures, following the exploits of a 157-year-old doctor (Amanda Tapping) whose nemeses from Victorian England have trailed her into the modern world.
What was rare about this filming day last month was that a tunnel had actually been built out of moulded foam for the actors to walk through. For the most part, their adventures in an unnamed noir city, in the Himalayas, or Rome's catacombs, are played out against green backdrops, with the far-flung scenery and otherworldly creatures added digitally...
**snippage**
Wilson, Tapping and series creator Damian Kindler are all Canadians who made their names in U.S. productions shot here, notably Stargate: SG-1 for Tapping and Kindler. But the new show, which they've sold to the U.S. Sci-Fi network and other broadcasters around the world, is entirely homegrown, even those globe-trotting digital locations.
"We were working so hard, investing our own money, turning down other work," says Kindler. "We're taking over Battlestar Galactica's timeslot in the United States. That's no small deal. You can't show up and go 'Here's some homegrown s--t, smoke this.' You have to fire it up a big, fat notch."
At the Vancouver Province (Vancouver, BC, Canada):
(Please follow the link for the complete article.)
Sanctuary fires it up a big, fat notch
Glen Schaefer, The Province
Published: Friday, October 03, 2008
SERIES PREMIERE
Sanctuary
When and where: Tonight at 8 on Movie Central
It was a rare day on the Burnaby sound stages of the new sci-fi series Sanctuary, as legendary inventor Nicholai Tesla led a team of monster-hunters through a mountain tunnel.
The show's stories put historical figures like Tesla in the mix with fanciful creatures, following the exploits of a 157-year-old doctor (Amanda Tapping) whose nemeses from Victorian England have trailed her into the modern world.
What was rare about this filming day last month was that a tunnel had actually been built out of moulded foam for the actors to walk through. For the most part, their adventures in an unnamed noir city, in the Himalayas, or Rome's catacombs, are played out against green backdrops, with the far-flung scenery and otherworldly creatures added digitally...
**snippage**
Wilson, Tapping and series creator Damian Kindler are all Canadians who made their names in U.S. productions shot here, notably Stargate: SG-1 for Tapping and Kindler. But the new show, which they've sold to the U.S. Sci-Fi network and other broadcasters around the world, is entirely homegrown, even those globe-trotting digital locations.
"We were working so hard, investing our own money, turning down other work," says Kindler. "We're taking over Battlestar Galactica's timeslot in the United States. That's no small deal. You can't show up and go 'Here's some homegrown s--t, smoke this.' You have to fire it up a big, fat notch."
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