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The show, starring Alan Ritchson as retired military police officer Jack Reacher, has shot scenes in Hamilton since its first season. Reacher is a wanderer and keeps crossing paths with dangerous criminals and having to — sometimes with friends of his former MP unit — sort them out.

Filming for the fourth season is expected to begin in the summer, but a spinoff called “Neagley” is shooting around the pc28����area. It was filming scenes in Acton last week.

It features Maria Stein, reprising her role as a former member of Reacher’s MP unit, Frances Neagley. She featured in the first three seasons of “Reacher” and emerged as Reacher’s sidekick.

According to a synopsis, Neagley is a private investigator in Chicago who becomes hell bent on justice when a friend is killed in a suspicious accident. She puts herself “on a dangerous path to uncover a menacing evil” by using all the know-how she got from Reacher and her time as a member of the 110 Special Investigators.

“As ‘Reacher’ continues to resonate with our global customers in a profound way, expanding on the storytelling and characters with a spinoff was an easy decision,” Vernon Sanders, head of television at Amazon MGM studios, said in a media release.

The third season of “Reacher,” which dropped on the streaming service Feb. 20, hit No. 1 in the Nielsen’s streaming rankings. It had 1.4 billion minutes viewed on Amazon Prime between March 3-9. Its final episodes dropped March 27.

The season was based on the 2003 novel “Persuader” and sees Reacher get involved in a mysterious criminal organization while working undercover for the DEA. It also brings him in contact with a former nemesis, Lt. Col. Francis Quinn (Brian Tee, “Chicago Med”) and also a menacing bodyguard named Paulie (Olivier Richters, known as The Dutch Giant).

Scenes shot in Hamilton included a boat explosion staged near Bayfront Park and scenes shot at the Memphis Fire Barbeque Co. in Stoney Creek. Crews also filmed in Brantford.

The Canadian-Irish production “SisterS” has continued shooting its second season in the Hamilton area since starting in Greensville at the beginning of March.

The comedy-drama is about two women, continents apart, in Ireland and Canada, who discover they are half-sisters. The program was created by and stars Susan Stanley, who appeared in the Irish soap opera “Fair City,” and Sarah Goldberg, who played Sally Reed in the hit HBO series “Barry.”

The first season saw the pair search for their father in Ireland. The second season sees sisterly drama at a wedding in Canada.

It shot over the last month at Digital Canaries studio, lobby Hamilton restaurant on James Street South, West 5th Campus of St. Joseph’s Healthcare, a home on Bold Street, near Queen Street South, a home on Adair Avenue, near Queenston Road, a garage on Queenston Road, near Parkdale Avenue South, Millworks on Hatt Street in Dundas and The Innsville Restaurant on Highway 8 in Stoney Creek.

The program runs on Crave, RTE in Ireland and IFC in the U.S.

Hamilton and the historic Ferguson Avenue pumping station got a shout-out in “People” magazine.

The 1912-circa station was the backdrop for an episode of “Murdoch Mysteries” in December. The episode featured special guests Luann de Lesseps of “Real Housewives of New York” and Dave Quinn, senior editor of the magazine. He wrote an article about it.

While the station didn’t get mentioned by name, there were plenty of behind-the-scenes photos. Quinn noted, “filming for our scene didn’t take place at Sullivan Studios (in Toronto), but on location about an hour away in Hamilton, where the series frequently shoots. A specific spot was needed, as, spoiler alert, the setting for our cameo involved the launch of a new public hydroelectric station.”

The episode called “The Body Electric” ran on CBC April 7. It can be seen on CBC Gem.