PopGoesTheNews.com >> Piper Perabo and Peter Gallagher will call Toronto home for four months this year now that the series Covert Affairs has been picked up by USA Network.
The stars, as well as Christopher Gorham (Ugly Betty) and Kari Matchett (Invasion), will film 11 one-hour episodes of the drama beginning in mid-April.
Perabo, best known for her role in Coyote Ugly, plays a young CIA trainee who is unexpectedly and inexplicably promoted to field operative. Gallagher (The O.C.) plays the director of the CIA's Director of Clandestine Services and Matchett plays his wife, who is head of the agency's Domestic Protection Division. Gorham portrays a blind CIA military intelligence agent.
Actor Tim Matheson directed the pilot episode in Toronto last year. There is currently no Canadian broadcaster for the series.
Covert Affairs is not the only series shooting in Toronto this year. Production of season two of the SyFy series Warehouse 13, starring Eddie McClintock, begins this week and continues until August. The CTV series Flashpoint, which also airs on CBS and on networks around the world, recently kicked off work on its third season in Toronto and will wrap up at the end of May.
Also on the streets of Toronto is production of the pilot for Fox's Breakout Kings, in which a U.S. marshal (Avatar's Laz Alonso) uses the experience of three cons to catch dangerous fugitives. Malcolm Goodwin (American Gangster) plays one of the criminals. The drama will be shot over three weeks starting in mid-March.
Pilots for Nikita – starring Maggie Q (Mission Impossible III, Live Free of Die Hard) – and Reagan's Law are also shooting in Toronto in March.
The stars, as well as Christopher Gorham (Ugly Betty) and Kari Matchett (Invasion), will film 11 one-hour episodes of the drama beginning in mid-April.
Perabo, best known for her role in Coyote Ugly, plays a young CIA trainee who is unexpectedly and inexplicably promoted to field operative. Gallagher (The O.C.) plays the director of the CIA's Director of Clandestine Services and Matchett plays his wife, who is head of the agency's Domestic Protection Division. Gorham portrays a blind CIA military intelligence agent.
Actor Tim Matheson directed the pilot episode in Toronto last year. There is currently no Canadian broadcaster for the series.
Covert Affairs is not the only series shooting in Toronto this year. Production of season two of the SyFy series Warehouse 13, starring Eddie McClintock, begins this week and continues until August. The CTV series Flashpoint, which also airs on CBS and on networks around the world, recently kicked off work on its third season in Toronto and will wrap up at the end of May.
Also on the streets of Toronto is production of the pilot for Fox's Breakout Kings, in which a U.S. marshal (Avatar's Laz Alonso) uses the experience of three cons to catch dangerous fugitives. Malcolm Goodwin (American Gangster) plays one of the criminals. The drama will be shot over three weeks starting in mid-March.
Pilots for Nikita – starring Maggie Q (Mission Impossible III, Live Free of Die Hard) – and Reagan's Law are also shooting in Toronto in March.
