Angie Harmon Returns for 'Buried in Barstow 2' as Lifetime Sequel Sets Up in Kelowna, BC

Lifetime is moving forward with a sequel to its 2022 thriller movie of the week, and the Okanagan region of British Columbia is about to get a mob-connected visitor. "Buried in Barstow 2" is in development with production scheduled to begin in July 2026, filming in Kelowna and on Westbank First Nation #9 land in the Regional District of Central Okanagan. For crew based in the BC Interior or willing to travel, this one is worth putting on your radar now.

Angie Harmon is back in the lead role, reprising her turn as the former hitwoman turned diner owner at the center of the story. Harmon, best known for her long run as Detective Jane Rizzoli on TNT's "Rizzoli and Isles" and her earlier work as ADA Abbie Carmichael on "Law and Order," found a comfortable home in Lifetime's elevated thriller space with the first "Buried in Barstow" and clearly has the network's confidence to carry a sequel. Her presence signals a production that is built around a recognizable lead with a devoted television audience, the kind of project Lifetime positions as a flagship event title rather than a quick-turn production.

The producing team behind the project is a mix of familiar Lifetime collaborators and seasoned Canadian production veterans. Laura Notarianni, Eric Woods, Stan Spry, and Michael Rosenberg are all attached as producers. Stan Spry and Chad Oakes, who is on board as line producer, are both associated with Nomadic Pictures, the Calgary and Los Angeles based production company with deep roots in Canadian co-productions and Lifetime content specifically. Nomadic has a long track record of delivering elevated genre fare through Canadian locations with strong creative and logistical execution, and their involvement here makes the Kelowna location choice entirely logical. Casting is in the hands of Jackie Lind, a casting director with substantial experience on Canadian-based productions, and her attachment suggests local and regional casting conversations are either already underway or will be shortly. The full production company roster, Untitled Entertainment, Cartel Entertainment, Nomadic Pictures, and Lifetime through its A&E Networks parent, rounds out a slate of partners that reflects Lifetime's model of co-producing through established Canadian infrastructure.

Kelowna and the surrounding Okanagan Valley have become increasingly attractive to productions of this scale, and it is not hard to see why. British Columbia's film and television tax credit program extends its benefits to productions shooting outside of the Metro Vancouver corridor, and the Interior BC designation can unlock additional incentive percentages that make the economics genuinely compelling for mid-budget Lifetime-tier productions. The Kelowna area offers a diverse visual palette, from lakefront and downtown urban settings to desert-adjacent terrain and agricultural landscapes, all of which suit the dusty, sun-baked aesthetic the "Buried in Barstow" franchise has built its identity around. The local crew base in Kelowna is smaller than Vancouver, so productions based here typically bring department heads from either Vancouver or Calgary while hiring locally at the crew and support levels. That said, the BC Interior has been building its below-the-line infrastructure steadily, and productions like this one are part of that growth story.

With a July 2026 start date, this production is still a year out, which places it comfortably in the development-to-pre-production transition window. Department heads in art, wardrobe, locations, and camera are likely to start informal conversations in the coming months, with formal hiring ramping up in late 2025 and early 2026. The format, a Lifetime movie or limited event, suggests a compressed shooting schedule typical of the network's model, usually somewhere in the four-to-six week range, which means the crew footprint will be tight but the pace will be fast. The thriller genre and the diner-and-desert visual world of the first film suggest solid needs across the art and locations departments, and the mob-connected antagonist storyline hints at the kind of practical action and tension sequences that keep stunt coordinators and camera operators busy.

For professionals looking to get ahead of this one, the full production listing on ProductionList.com is the place to start. Complete crew contacts, production office details, and scheduling updates will be posted as the production moves from development into active pre-production. If you are a department head in British Columbia or a Vancouver-based crew member with Okanagan availability, bookmark this listing now and check back regularly as staffing accelerates through the back half of 2025.

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