The former Brock University campus in east Hamilton will play a boarded up school in the new season of Amazon Prime’s hit show, 鈥淭he Boys.鈥
Fake snow and a sign proclaiming the school as the 鈥淓rie County Public Elementary School鈥 decked out the property when the twisted, dark humour R-rated superhero show shot there last week.

The former Brock University campus on King Street East has been made up to play a school in the Buffalo area for recent shooting of Amazon Prime’s “The Boys.”
Daniel NolanFor a brief time, fake snow was almost not needed. The snow, made out of large bales of cotton batten, was first spread out across the school property on Tuesday.
And then came that heavy snowstorm last Wednesday. It covered the cotton batten. It was, however, fortunate the production had laid it out because the real snow was all gone by Thursday.

Bales of cotton were used by the hit show “The Boys” to create fake snow on the lawn of the former Brock University campus on King Street East in east Hamilton last week.
Daniel NolanThe production had the fake snow spread out in the front and back of the property. Some of the windows were boarded up and included graffiti tags. One had the word 鈥淟ove鈥 scrawled across it.
The production team appeared to be shooting a scene where characters exit a van, near the east-side school entrance.
鈥淭he Boys,鈥 which has filmed in Hamilton numerous times, is shooting its fifth and final season. Amazon Prime reported last year the fourth season tallied the second most viewers of any returning show on the streaming service, just behind the second season of 鈥淩eacher.鈥

Karl Urban and Jack Quaid star in the Amazon Prime series “The Boys,” which has filmed in Hamilton numerous times. It’s in its fifth and final season.
Jan ThijsThe program is about the struggle between superhero Homelander (Antony Starr) and William (Billy) Butcher (Karl Urban). Homelander, a cynical and dangerous individual behind his superhero smile, leads a group of superheroes called The Seven. Billy is the leader of The Boys, a group of black-operations agents who fight the superheroes, created through a formula developed by the conglomerate Vought International.
The previous four seasons have been marked by revelations of father-son relations, conspiracies, attempts to take down Homelander and Billy’s own fall from grace.
The fourth season ends in a coup that sees the new president of the United States swearing allegiance to Homelander. There’s also a clip of Homelander finding out his father 鈥 the Captain America-like Soldier Boy 鈥 is alive and was not killed in Season 3.
Executive producer Eric Kripke said in a social media post that he was 鈥渢hrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax.鈥 He said the final season will be 鈥渢he show’s version of the apocalypse 鈥 Now, (The Boys) have to really come together in the fifth season and save the world.鈥
Photos from the set have shown the appearance of internment camps, set up on the orders of Homelander. Production is expected to wrap up in June.
Movies and TV shows filmed in Hamilton have landed 101 nominations from the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards.
This ranges from 13 nominations for the reality show 鈥淐anada’s Drag Race,鈥 a dozen nominations each for the sitcoms 鈥淐hildren Ruin Everything鈥 and 鈥淩un The Burbs,鈥 and eight for 鈥淟ate Bloomer,鈥 to single nominations for the movies 鈥淵oung Werther,鈥 鈥淎 Not So Royal Christmas鈥 and the reality show 鈥淧roperty Virgins.鈥
A highlight is the Lifetime TV movie 鈥淎bducted Off the Street: The Carlesha Gaither Story,鈥 which received four nominations. The movie,聽filmed across Hamilton in June 2022, tells the true story about a nurse grabbed off the streets of Philadelphia.
鈥淢urdoch Mysteries鈥 received 10 nominations. Five nominations went to 鈥淭he Apprentice,鈥 which tells the early backstory of Donald Trump. 鈥淗umane,鈥 the horror movie shot at Ravenscliffe Castle, received four nominations, as did the sitcom 鈥淭he Trades,鈥 which filmed here in August 2023.
Three nominations went to the Ancaster-filmed TV show 鈥淩uby and the Well鈥 and the reality show 鈥淎ll-Round Champion.鈥 Two nominations went to the movies 鈥淭he Invisibles,鈥 鈥淥ut Come the Wolves,鈥 鈥淐ode 8: Part II,鈥 鈥淚n a Violent Nature鈥 and the TV shows 鈥淪ight Unseen,鈥 鈥淐anada’s Ultimate Challenge,鈥 鈥淭he Squeaky Wheel,鈥 鈥淕angnam Project鈥 and 鈥淏lown Away.鈥 The award show is June 1 at 8 p.m. on CBC.
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