The Good Doctor, The Home Stretch...

Omg, when do you get to be the only one in Gastown! (4:45 a.m. on a Monday, that's how.)

(I was hanging out waiting to pick-up one of the cast members of the Good Doctor.) 

The gang, Chuku, Antonia, Beau, Hill, Freddie, Richard, Tamlyn, and Nicolas, season one is close to being finished.

Out with the kids for dinner, not agreeing with their "Sangria choice" happy hour pick, lol

Another first in my cast driver duties. A stop at the Party Bazzar in Vancouver. I was there to get some goodies, including helium balloons, very hard to harness I found out, for our star's birthday. (Freddie Highmore) 

A reminder on the way home that winter isn't quite done with us yet.

This was just a warm-up (or lack of) for a big snow we had a week later.

An early morning pick-up, looking east on Coal Harbour Quay.

and looking north in my rearview mirror across Coal Harbour to the North Shore mountains.

my normal ride had to go in for engine work, so I had to get used to this Ford Flex for a couple of days.

Filming this week was mostly at our Burnaby studio. Back here at our Coquitlam studio, the operating theatre is very still.

wow, impressive

Even more impressive, incredible workmanship (or craftsmanship?) when you stand above our stages.

One more week, and these hospital halls will be empty until the start of a season two. (as of now we still do not know if that is happening or not)

always marvel at the detail of the sets

a look backwards as I go through the carwash

waiting for a cast pick-up, this time at the Olympic cauldron at Jack Poole plaza in downtown Vancouver.

spoiled again by our fab caterers, turkey dinner, with a little tuna on the side....

One of the main cast, Tamlyn Tomita, surprised us on Friday night with two dishes of what she called "crack" sushi. It was very good when you mixed with the seaweed, thank-you Tamlyn!

Just to prove I can still do it, every once in a while I am brought in to move one of the bigger production vehicles. (Just like riding a bicycle, right?)

after the move, I had a chance to visit my torch relay partner from the 2015 Pan-Am games, Hayley! She was in town from Toronto, visiting relatives.

I guess we should not complain about our little Vancouver snowfall.

Ouch!

Picture says it all.

uhh, no

just like in my day you hated people playing records for you, but you loved playing records for them

who needs a boat trailer?

slight miscalculation

what the heck?

sad, sad, but all too real sign of the times

The Good Doctor, 16 down, 1 to go......

Another rainy start to another week of filming of the Good Doctor. Currently we are filming the 2nd to last episode of the very successful first season of the show.

Had time on the week-end to go for a beer with junior. Hey, wait a minute! How did he get a Wayward Pines hoodie, I was the one working on the show, not him! 

Could this be the end of the wet weather? (enough, already, it rained 24 days in January, including the last 16 days of the month in a row)

One day this week our base camp was at the familiar Concorde Pacific lot by False Creek and Science World.

One night in make believe land. I am parked minding my own business, and the I see in my rear view mirror, some kind of incident.....

I got out of my cast vehicle and looked towards the anomaly and realized they were using the "rain towers" tonight for one of the scenes. 

looking the other direction, glad it wasn't me involved in that....(I've been under the towers on a cold November night a few years ago on "the Watchmen")

love this courtyard on Thurlow close to Robson, my new favourite Starbucks!

Trying to balance 3 meats with a little salad and veggies, our caterers are killing us with love! haha

One of the 20 days in a row that in rained in January in the Lower Mainland.

but on another day, spring is trying hard to show up....

even the mallards think so

Spent a recent week-end with junior watching the Superbowl in a pub in Burnaby. (It was a fun way to spend one's birthday.)

Oh yes, so good, but soooooooooooo bad.

Ritsue sent me this piece of art birthday card. Why can't you find a greeting card like this in Canada?

No, not a night shot of Coal Harbour, a very, very early shot of it.

Oh, look at my cast car parked outside of our studios in Coquitlam. The sign is at the half-way point of my vehicle. (Yes, you know how this ends, the parking enforcement Grinch gave me a ticket!)

Hahaha, that is the second week in a row I have caught Vancouver's number one background performer asleep at the job. Edwin and I go back a long way, I first met him on the set of Iron Road in Kamloops.

One in the afternoon is always a busy time at Vancouver International Airport as I wait for one of the guest stars to arrive from Los Angeles.

I spied, on the monitors by the hair and make-up holding, Freddie Highmore rehearsing for one of his scenes.

A change, hanging out early morning style, in West Vancouver

It was different view today, I had to pick-up a guest star that lives in West Van. (this is looking back towards Stanley Park and the Lion's Gate bridge.

Today's menu, our caterers rock!

Looking out from my place towards Mount Baker. We enjoyed a few rare sunny days this week. 

One day left on episode 116, then we begin filming the last episode of season one.

 

Now here is a smattering of pics from the web this week.

Ha! 

dude, soooooooooo close

doggie shaming

kitty shaming

bravo Alex.

sub

Well thought out Spencer.