The Blue Ice Pictures series stars Melanie Scrofano as a detective in a town where the dead mysteriously return.
Blue Ice Pictures’ latest series, Revival, is living up to its name in more ways than one. The supernatural series is helping to resuscitate New Brunswick’s local film industry after the province lost its tax credit in 2011.
Produced for Syfy in the U.S. and CTV Sci-Fi for Canada, the 10 x 60-minute series is based on the Image Comics IP of the same name by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton about a town in Wisconsin where the dead mysteriously come back to life. Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp; pictured) stars as a local detective with a cast that includes Romy Weltman (Backstage), David James Elliott (JAG), Andy McQueen (Mrs. Davis) and Steven Ogg (Snowpiercer).
The series went into production with co-producer Hemmings House in and around Saint John in September 2024 and wrapped in December at a budget of about $2 million per episode, Samantha Levine, Blue Ice’s VP, production, tells Playback. Samir Rehem (Killjoys) and Amanda Row (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) each directed five episodes.
The series was in development at Blue Ice for three years with creators and showrunners Aaron B. Koontz and Luke Boyce, says Levine. When it came to finding a location, Blue Ice and Hemmings House approached the provincial government – led by the Progressive Conservative Party at the time – to see what could be done to bring the show to New Brunswick. Levine says the level of forestry and access to water made the location ideal as a double for the Wisconsin city Wausau, where the show is set.
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