The Guard (TV series)

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The Guard
Genre	Drama
Starring	Steve Bacic Jeremy Guilbaut Zoie Palmer Sonya Salomaa David James Elliott
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	22
Production
Executive producers	Charles Bishop Stephen Hegyes Raymond Storey Shawn Williamson
Running time	60 minutes (including commercials)
Production company	Halifax Film
Original release
Network	Global
Release	January 22, 2008 (2008-01-22) – July 6, 2009 (2009-07-06)
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The Guard is a Canadian drama television series portraying the life of the Canadian Coast Guard along the British Columbia Coast. Filming takes place in Squamish, British Columbia with Howe Sound standing in for the fictional Port Hallet and a real 47-foot Coast Guard lifeboat Cape St. James has been renamed Cape Pacific for the series.^[1]

The show primarily revolves around the four main characters: Miro Da Silva (Steve Bacic), Laura Nelson (Claudette Mink - Season 1; Sonya Salomaa - Seasons 2 and 3), Andrew Vanderlee (Jeremy Guilbaut), and Carly Greig (Zoie Palmer). There is also a strong supporting cast, including Gordon Michael Woolvett (as Barry Winter), who worked with Bacic previously on Andromeda, Julie Patzwald, and Eve Harlow, the latter two of whom won a 2008 and 2009 Leo Award, respectively, for their roles on the show.

The show focuses on both the professional and personal lives of the lead characters, confronting issues such as addiction, post traumatic stress disorder, and family problems.

It was picked up by Ion premiering March 13, 2010.^[2] By late April, it was put on hiatus on the basis that it "did not find a broad enough audience on the network", explained a spokesperson.^[3] It subsequently aired for a period on the ION Life digital channel.