Templeton Secondary School - Templeton in Popular Culture

Templeton in Popular Culture

Many Hollywood producers and directors have commented that Templeton Secondary School has been one of the best schools in which they have filmed. The students are very respectful to the actors and crew when they're filming. At times, students are allowed to watch the filming as long as they are quiet on the set. Templeton has been used as a set for a number of productions (movies, TV shows, commercials) and presently continues to act as one.

• Templeton Secondary is best known as the interior set for "Smallville High" in the TV series Smallville, as well as Beachwood High School in the TV series Kyle XY; Beachwood High and Smallville High murals still remain in the school's hallway. The hallway commonly known to the students as the "Smallville Hallway" is where most filming takes place for the TV shows and movies. As of 2007, the show Kyle XY continues to film at Templeton.

• The TV show Aliens in America has also been filmed at Templeton Secondary School.
• Bryan Adams performed in the auditorium for a lunch hour concert as a lead singer for Sweeney Todd in 1978.
• Scenes for the movie Personal Effects (2009) starring actors Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Pfeiffer were being filmed in the gym and parking lot of the school as of November 26, 2007.
• As of December 11, 2007, scenes from the movie What Goes Up starring actors Hilary Duff and Josh Peck were being filmed. The movie was released on May 29, 2009.
• As of January 22, 2008, filming the Nickelodeon original movie Gym Teacher: The Movie starring Nathan Kress, Avan Jogia, Brenna O'Brien, and Christopher Meloni.
• As of May 12-13 2008, filming the Nickelodeon original movie Spectacular! starring Victoria Justice (Zoey 101), Avan Jogia, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Tammin Sursok, and Andrea Lewis.
• As of Summer 2008, filming scenes for the telefilm Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins. It was released on September 13, 2009 on Cartoon Network.
• As of November 20 2008 and February 2009, filming scenes for the popular TV series Supernatural.
• Templeton was used for the pilot of the CW show, The Vampire Diaries.
• The interiors were used to shoot the film adaptation of the children's book 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' and Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2
• A few scenes from This Boy's Life (film) were filmed at Templeton
• Used for the High School extior in Nick's "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf" (2010)
• Used as the exterior of Chance Harbor High School, as well as the interior first and second floor hall ways and staircase, in The CW series The Secret Circle (2011)