![]() ![]() You can tell that people are starting to recognize us now, even when we came to Toronto, the security officers and just random people are starting to come up to us a lot more.” We get people from the States calling us, we get people sending emails saying that they want to come and meet us, we get kids stopping by and they’re so excited. Q: Have you become local celebrities because of LAST STOP GARAGE?Ĭollin: “Yeah, you could say that! From a business standpoint, I think Season 2 has changed it for the better, for sure. 1 scrounger, recently paid a visit to Bell Media headquarters in Toronto to talk about LAST STOP GARAGE, what’s in store for the future, and whether or not they feel like big-time TV stars now! The series follows a motley crew of resourceful, ingenious and eccentric mechanics who operate CRB Automotive – a family-owned garage in remote North West River, Labrador, which is one of the furthest points that you can drive to on the Eastern seaboard.Ĭollin, the owner of CRB Automotive, and Ross, the gas bar manager and No. Season 2 of LAST STOP GARAGE wraps up Thursday, April 25, with back-to-back new episodes, starting at 9 p.m. The shop has divided one of its bays in two so the crew can film uninterrupted.They may live at the far end of the road, but Collin Baikie and Ross Humby of LAST STOP GARAGE want to be close to your heart, especially if it helps their business and their community. The show will mainly be shot from mid-March to mid-July. "I figured for sure it was something like that but something told me to message and call the guy back." "I figured it was a scam," he said comparing it to shams offering people free trips to exotic places. "I got overwhelmed with responses from people up and down the coast saying you've got to come check out my buddy, you've gotta visit these people."įriends of Collin Baikie, the MMA fighter and owner of CRB, tagged him in Armitage's post. Proper Television is behind shows like Canada's Worst Driver and Masterchef Canada.Īrmitage put an ad on Facebook looking for characters, people who love the outdoors and families with family run businesses. "I decided I have to go there and find out what happens on the ground," he said. Proper Television development producer Mike Armitage was flying back to Canada from Europe about a year ago when he saw Happy Valley-Goose Bay pop up on the in-flight entertainment TV in the seat in front of him. "We don't always have the best parts but we do what we can do. "We fix Zambonis, we fix wheelchairs, we fix planes and we fix cars – whatever comes in the shop we'll try," said Stanley Oliver, CRB's general manager and one of the show's soon-to-be main characters. The half-hour episodes will air on the Discovery Channel in Canada, Latin America and Europe as well as Velocity, an automotive channel in the U.S. With the working title Last Stop Garage, the 12-episode reality series will focus on the variety of jobs coming through CRB's doors, as the town's only garage. Over the next five months, CRB Rebuild and Recreation in North West River, Labrador will be making room for an eight-person television crew to capture the shop's everyday happenings.
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