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For 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.

The 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 “Love” scrawled across it.

The production team appeared to be shooting a scene where characters exit a van, near the east-side school entrance.

“The Boys,” 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 “Reacher.”

The 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 — the Captain America-like Soldier Boy — is alive and was not killed in Season 3.

Executive producer Eric Kripke said in a social media post that he was “thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax.” He said the final season will be “the show’s version of the apocalypse … Now, (The Boys) have to really come together in the fifth season and save the world.”

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 “Canada’s Drag Race,” a dozen nominations each for the sitcoms “Children Ruin Everything” and “Run The Burbs,” and eight for “Late Bloomer,” to single nominations for the movies “Young Werther,” “A Not So Royal Christmas” and the reality show “Property Virgins.”

A highlight is the Lifetime TV movie “Abducted Off the Street: The Carlesha Gaither Story,” which received four nominations. The movie, filmed across Hamilton in June 2022, tells the true story about a nurse grabbed off the streets of Philadelphia.

“Murdoch Mysteries” received 10 nominations. Five nominations went to “The Apprentice,” which tells the early backstory of Donald Trump. “Humane,” the horror movie shot at Ravenscliffe Castle, received four nominations, as did the sitcom “The Trades,” which filmed here in August 2023.

Three nominations went to the Ancaster-filmed TV show “Ruby and the Well” and the reality show “All-Round Champion.” Two nominations went to the movies “The Invisibles,” “Out Come the Wolves,” “Code 8: Part II,” “In a Violent Nature” and the TV shows “Sight Unseen,” “Canada’s Ultimate Challenge,” “The Squeaky Wheel,” “Gangnam Project” and “Blown Away.” The award show is June 1 at 8 p.m. on CBC.