This is the time of year when I put on the pounds. Between show wrap and my return to Vancouver, it's about four weeks packed with goodbye lunches and dinners. Farewell to friends. Farewell to co-workers. Farewell to the crispy sirloin, green pepper and onions taco at Campechano. I'll miss you all! Today, was a…
April 21, 2017: Dark Matter Costume Designer Noreen Landry Answers Your Questions!
Today, I turn this blog over to Dark Matter Costume Designer Noreen Landry who not only happens to be an incredible talent but, really, one of my very favorite people to work with. Her costume meetings are always the highlight of any given prep week and I honestly can't imagine doing the show without her…
April 20, 2017: Announcing the Dark Matter Aftershow – After Dark!
How much does the gang at Syfy International love Dark Matter and Dark Matter fandom? So much that they were at the studio all this week, prepping and shooting an aftershow, After Dark, that will premiere following our season 3 premiere on all Syfy International channels. As a participant in the After Dark segments for our first two…
April 19, 2017: That’s a wrap on Dark Matter season 3 – Day 93 of 93!
Well, that's it! That's a wrap on Dark Matter season 3. Finally, a well-earned rest for our tireless cast and crew. But there'll be no respite for yours truly. I have still two more edits, a handful of mixes, a season's worth of music notes to get through and, starting immediately, a brand new season to plan, arc…
April 18, 2017: Dark Matter Season 3 – Day 92 of 93! Vote for a new episode title!
Plotting my next move aboard The Raza. Why, yes, those ARE ninja cat socks. (Photo by Roger Cross) Okay, gang. Pull up your socks and get ready to vote. We have two more episode titles to choose before season's end. Today, we pick a title of Episode 312, our penultimate shocker. Your choices are... Polls…
April 17, 2017: Dark Matter Season 3 – Day 91 of 93!
I received a few comments after yesterday's blog entry in which I considered early retirement to Tokyo once Dark Matter ends. Ideally, in such a scenario, that would be two years from now after the show's fifth and final season (although certain cast members have already started lobbying for an SG-1-like 10 year run). There is,…
April 13, 2017: Dark Matter Season 3 – Day 90 of of 93!
Saw this in the breezeway between our two stages this morning. Very on point for Dark Matter's this season. A crew gift from the cast - my very own Raza Crew backpack. I just have to buy a suit to match. Costume Designer Noreen Landry and Executive Producer Jay Firestone go way back to their Lost…
April 12, 2017: Dark Matter Season 3 – Day 89 of 93!
Hunh. So after announcing a fan Q&A for Dark Matter Costume Designer Noreen Landry in yesterday's blog entry, I saw Noreen on set this morning and gave her the heads up. "You'll be doing a Q&A on my blog,"I told her. "I've been working on the questions,"she said. "I'll finally have time to finish them this weekend."…
April 11, 2017: Dark Matter Season 3 – Day 88 of 93!
I'd like to start off today's entry with a thank you to Dark Matter Production Designer Ian Brock for an informative and entertaining Q&A. If you haven't read it, check out yesterday's blog instalment. And now, I'd like to open the floor to yet another Q&A, this one with Dark Matter Costume Designer Noreen Landry. Noreen and her team can…
April 10, 2017: Dark Matter Production Designer Ian Brock Answers Your Questions!
Back in 2014 when we first started putting together our team for the show's first season, Ian Brock's name came up. A LOT. And always, whenever it did, it would be accompanied by the phrase: "He's a genius". From different people at different points in the pre-pre-production process it was "Ian Brock" and "genius". Well,…
April 7, 2017: Dark Matter Season 3 Premiere Date! New Episode Title! Behind the scenes pics!
We have an official premiere date! Dark Matter returns Friday June 9th with a double episode premiere starting at 8:00 p.m.! Then, the show moves to its NEW TIME at 9:00 p.m. the following week. Friday, June 9th - 8:00 p.m. = "Episode 301: Being Better Is So Much Harder" 9:00 p.m. = "Episode 302: It…
April 6, 2017: Dark Matter Season 3 – Day 85 of 91!
I'd like to kick off this entry with a shout-out to this show's biggest supporters. Well, next to the fans of course, there are no greater friends to Dark Matter than the folks at NBC Universal International/Syfy International. They have gotten behind our little series in a big way, tirelessly promoting us from the very beginning, taking the…
April 5, 2017: Dark Matter Season 3 – Day 84 of 91!
On the Raza mess triptych this morning, compliments of Dark Matter playback operator Greg Whiteside - another SF classic. And, hey, it's Dark Matter playback operator Greg Whiteside. Director Bruce McDonald - always a blast on set. Director Ron Murphy snapping me snapping him snapping me snapping him snapping me... Construction begins on "the shipyard". The costume department wants…
April 4, 2017: Dark Matter Season 3 – Day 83 of 91!
Hey, eagle-eyed Dark Matter fans. Can you identify what's going on in the above still? If you can, you have the inside step on figuring out a late-season 11th hour surprise. Well, if it isn't Dark Matter stunt coordinator and 2nd unit director John Stead, fresh off directing our Die Hard episode which includes an epic one on one…
April 3, 2017: Dark Matter Season 3 – Day 82 of 91!
This is the time of the season when things are finally winding down and I can finally catch a bit of a rest. Although there are still episodes to finish shooting, cuts to edit, visual effects to approve, and episodic music to review, the writing is done and that means my nights and weekends are (mostly)…