Hinterland burg turned into NY village for TV

A low Hinterlandian dollar always brings US film crews to Canada. The charming village of Rosseau, ON, has turned into the, I assume, equally charming village of Tivoli, NY. Rosseau is about a 20 minute drive from my house.

http://www.paulabanks.ca/blog/2016/5/metamorphosis

I would assume that some of you live in that area. Any resemblance?

Hard to believe it is cheaper to swap out all those signs etc. It must be or they wouldn't do it.  What is the movie about?

Think they flimed one of the movies about the 1980 Olympic hockey in Rossland BC

Harvey wrote

Hard to believe it is cheaper to swap out all those signs etc. It must be or they wouldn't do it.  What is the movie about?

Maybe they are missing a few road signs in the real Tivoli. Article says it is a TV series called Eyewitness

USAnetwork.com wrote

USA Network and sister studio Universal Cable Productions (UCP) have partnered to bring an adaptation of the Norwegian crime thriller EYEWITNESS (original title “Øyevitne”) to the U.S. market.  The ten-episode, straight-to-series drama will be adapted for American television by Adi Hasak (creator, “Shades of Blue”). The series,... explores a grisly crime from the point of view of the eyewitnesses...

Looks nothing like the real Tivoli, which is situated high above the Hudson and has views like this:

I wonder about the logistics of flying cast and crew there. Into which airport do they fly and how much more expensive is that then flying into, say, Newburgh NY?

Jamesdeluxe wrote

I wonder about the logistics of flying cast and crew there. Into which airport do they fly and how much more expensive is that then flying into, say, Newburgh NY?

Pretty simple logistics, I should think. The set is a two-hour drive from Pearson Int'l Airport in Toronto. There is a local airport that can handle small jets. They could charter commercial float planes and fly right to the town dock if they had the budget.

The film industry infrastructure in Toronto is highly developed and hungry, since it is recovering from the big slump when our dollar was high. There are likely some gov't incentives to encourage the production companies to shoot here. Locally, their would be no shortage of accommodators and other contractors falling over themselves to host a film crew in the shoulder season. No brainer, really.

Sick Bird Rider wrote

The set is a two-hour drive from Pearson Int'l Airport in Toronto.

Ah, I was under the impression that the Hinterlands were much further away from the big city!

Jamesdeluxe wrote

Ah, I was under the impression that the Hinterlands were much further away from the big city!

We are so near, yet so far. It is a blessing and a curse.

Apropos of nothing -- when I was in Toronto a couple years ago, I was 90 minutes early for my meeting downtown, so I asked the taxi driver from the airport if he could take me to Lakeside Park (from the old Rush song). I didn't know that it was 100 km away in St. Catharines.

Did you expense the fare?