The lighthearted cop show set in Vancouver premieres January 10th on CBC
Canadian television director James Genn likes to point out that the French word for director is "realisateur." And that's how he views the job: as helping realize someone else's work.
"Your job is to take a script, a work, and realize and adapt it," he says. "That, to me, is an endless source of challenge and joy. I'm forever a student of that." Directing, he adds, is "an interpretive art."
The Vancouver-based director would know. After starting his career by making short films, then working in sound editing and post production for a number of years, Genn has spent the last 18 years directing television series, working on shows ranging from Kim's Convenience to Ginny & Georgia to The Good Doctor.
That's part of the beauty of working in television for Genn: the ability to work across multiple genres. His latest show is Wild Cards, for which he's the director of two episodes, including the pilot.It's a police procedural with hints of comedy, about a demoted detective who resurrects his flagging career by teaming up with a con-woman.
"They're each other's yin and yang," he says. "It's just really fun seeing these two go and bust bad guys together, because they're going out in the world and doing things with each other that they couldn't ordinarily do on their own."
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