Windsor episode of The Trades airs March 29
An episode filmed in Windsor of a new comedy series will be streamed March 29.
The Labour Day Parade episode of The Trades was shot in Windsor during two days in August.
The first two 30-minute episodes of the eight-part series, from Trailer Park Boys Inc. and Kontent House Productions Inc., will be streamed on Crave March 22. Two episodes will be aired each subsequent Friday with the finale set for April 12. The Labour Day Parade is the fourth episode.
Most of the series’ interior shots were filmed at the Nova Scotia Community College Akerley Campus in Dartmouth with the exterior shots occurring in Hamilton, Ont.
The production crew was looking for a site to film the parade episode and found what they were looking for on Gerrish Street.
“We knew we needed a small-town backdrop and Windsor was so ideal,” Ryan J. Lindsay, the show’s creator, writer and executive producer, told SaltWire in the fall.
The Trades is set in a fictitious working-class community called Imperial Valley.
Robb Wells, who played Ricky in Trailer Park Boys, plays Todd Stool in The Trades. He’s a pipefitter, proud of his working-class background. His sister Audrey (Anastasia Phillips, Moonshine) follows his footsteps and pursues a career in the trades. She becomes a carpenter, like their father Rod (Patrick McKenna, The Red Green Show).
Todd dreams of climbing the corporate ladder and becoming site manager at Conch Industries. But Chelsea Nakamura (Jennifer Spence, You Me Her), an ambitious young executive, is sent from head office to become the new site manager.
The Trades is described as a love letter to skilled-trade workers, written with grit, humour, and heart.
“Do you know how hard this f- job is, what me and my crew go through? Humour is how we survive and insults, it’s how we communicate,” Todd tells Nakamura in a trailer for the series.
“I hear you,” she replies,
“but I answer to corporate. It doesn’t matter if you like it; it doesn’t matter if I like it.”