Motive turns the police-procedural on its ear
The set of Motive, CTV’s new police procedural that’s filmed on a studio lot in Burnaby, B.C., looks in many ways like a typical police-station set. There’s the bullpen, full of detectives’ desks, next to the sergeant’s office. There’s the break room, and the interrogation room and the conference room.
But the lighting is bright and the space airy, and in the front lobby there’s a big wall covered with assorted greenery. It has a Vancouver feel to it, which makes sense since the show is set, purposefully and plainly, in Vancouver.
“One of the things we’re doing is trying to showcase the city,” says Rob LaBelle, one of Motive‘s executive producers. Each week, a murder will take viewers to a different part of greater Vancouver — the show’s fictional “Metro PD” means they can bypass the real-life fact that different parts of the region are patrolled by different police forces. LaBelle says they didn’t want their stories to always be set in, say, the Downtown Eastside, so instead are shooting in places like False Creek and Kitsilano.
“This is in Vancouver, and we’re shooting it as Vancouver,” LaBelle says.
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