West Coast-based Coast Guard Drama To Go Head-to-Head against US competition
When Search & Rescue goes to air on Global in March, the show's producers are hoping to draw an audience away from the US competition.
Executive producer and creator Raymond Storey says he was approached by the production company, Halifax Film, three and a half years ago with the concept - a drama about four members of the Coast Guard.
"They wanted a series that could go head-to-head with the U.S. competition, and they presented me with an article on the Coast Guard, which I knew nothing about," he says.
The $20 million primetime series has been shooting in Squamish since September and is being co-produced by Steve Hegyes and Shawn Williamson of Brightlight Pictures and Halifax Film's Charles Bishop and Michael Donovan.