So I found this one season (26 episode) extremely campy sci fi TV show – a low budget 2007 Canadian production – called Grand Star. Watched a few episodes last night. OMG it’s so terrible it is awesome.
It’s like a B-grade GameCube era JRPG got crossed with Snowpiercer. I can’t stop watching it somehow.
Anyone else seen this amazing piece of … something? ;)
“Toronto warehouse sci-fi” was almost its own genre for a while, with The Expanse sort of being the apotheosis of the form.
Surely Warehouse 13 was the exemplar of Toronto warehouse shows!
I really loved things like Eros station docks in The Expanse. So yeah it fits this vibe haha. :)
See also Killjoys, Dark Matter, Vagrant Queen, Helix, Ascension (some scenes), and I think Orphan Black would fit alongside The Expanse. Soooo many darkly lit industrial-themed loft apartments, barely disguised warehouses, and underground tunnels that (in the real world) let people avoid the weather while downtown. :-)
Doesn’t prevent a show from being good, far from it, but it’s an identifiable look.
Funnily enough, YOUR show seems to have been filmed in France, LOL. Canadian warehouses are a state of mind, I guess.
Sanctuary too.
Stargate Sg1 had a bigger budget, does that still count?
I’ve watched about half of that list. Well, when I run out of Grand Star episodes, I guess I have more warehouses to explore then haha.
To contrast this, see Vancouver sci fi, like the X Files, SG1, Smallville, The 100, Dark Angel, BSG, etc…
Or Halifax with… Lexx ;)
Stargate SG-1 is equal parts “Vancouver warehouse sci-fi” and “Vancouver rock quarry sci-fi”
Andromeda and i think Cleopatra 2525 is an honorary CWS show even though it was filmed in New Zealand
Cleopatra 2525 is just something
Future xena, because why mess with a formula.
can’t go wrong with Gina Torres and Sam Rami it’s crazy that she sang the opening theme. It’s so bad in the best of ways
Rivalling only “Vancouver Warehouse Sci-fi”
Maybe we can be ecumenical and call it Canadian Warehouse Sci-Fi. LOL.
Create a TV Tropes page for it and it’ll live forever as Canadian Warehouse Sci-Fi.
Could sort of just go through this list and see what fits haha. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_TV_and_radio_shows_produced_in_Canada#Live_action_science_fiction_television_drama_series