Episode 184: Jewel Staite, Victor Garber & Susin Nielsen talk ‘Family Law’

Today’s episode is all about Family Law, the highly anticipated Global Original series in which one dysfunctional family helps other dysfunctional families in crisis. With its all-star, all-Canadian cast including Jewel Staite, Victor Garber, Zach Smadu, and Genelle Williams, the 10-episode, one-hour legal drama premieres Friday, September 17 on Global. We enter Family Law by way of Abigail “Abby” Bianchi, played by Jewel. Abby is a whip-smart lawyer, mother, wife, and recovering alcoholic. She’s spent her life blaming others, especially her estranged father, for her myriad of problems. But a very public humiliation off the top of the series almost gets her disbarred, and the only firm willing to hire her is the one owned by her smart, shrewd, handsome, charming and still very much estranged father Harry, and staffed by Daniel and Lucy, his two other children from two other relationships. Family Law is the only dramatic series from a Canadian national broadcaster to film in Vancouver. It’s a big deal for the local screen scene, and warrants a big deal of an episode of the YVR Screen Scene Podcast: one that begins with an in-depth conversation with Family Law showrunner Susin Nielsen, and concludes with a chat with Jewel Staite and Victor Garber, the entertainment icons who portray the dysfunctional daughter and dad duo of Abby and Harry. Episode sponsor: Fish Flight Entertainment