More than two months after William and Kate visited P.E.I., the province is still getting publicity thanks to a film crew that spent Thursday on the Island.
James Burge is a producer with England-based Spun Gold and said the crew is following in the couple's footsteps while they were in P.E.I.
"Picking up reactions, hopefully insights and anecdotes so we can sort of look back at the story and tell it with a kind of extra twist," he said.
The film crew arrived in P.E.I. around noon and spent several hours in Dalvay visiting the sites where the couple spent the bulk of their busiest day on the Island.
American television network NBC hired Spun Gold to make the hour-long documentary after the production company made a film about the couple's wedding, which Burge said the network liked enough to hire them again.
Burge said the P.E.I. shoot was part of a film about the couple's first six months of marriage.
"The way I see it it's actually about how people learn how to be a professional royal."
Spun Gold's crew came to Canada because the country was a major theme after the couple's wedding, he said.
"We came to P.E.I. because you guys chose the best photo opportunities," he said.
Those photo opportunities included a water bird landing in a Sea King helicopter and a dragon boat race at Dalvay Lake.
Burge said the thing that struck him the most during the visit was how positively everybody the crew dealt with reacted to the couple's visit, with many of them mentioning how long the couple spent with the crowd and how receptive they were.
"One or two people said how unstuffy they are," he said.
It's a similar reaction to what the couple gets in the U.K. where Burge said even the British media, which he called vicious at times, hasn't been able to find anything bad to say about the couple.
"I can't think of anybody who's saying anything bad about them."
Spun Gold went to Ottawa first, then P.E.I. before leaving for Halifax today to talk to people who were involved in the couple's P.E.I. events, such as the helicopter crew William flew with.
Burge said he thinks the visit to P.E.I. worked so well because it was well planned.
"In retrospect, they seem to have said it was a highlight of the trip."
As for the impact the couple's visit had in raising P.E.I.'s profile abroad, Burge said he thinks it had a big impact and raised the province's profile thanks to people seeing the events the couple took part in.
"They know where Prince Edward Island is now a little bit more than they did before."
With his visit to P.E.I. almost over, Burge said the province has a beautiful countryside with friendly people.
"I can see what William and Kate saw in it."
Burge said he expected to have several hours of footage from the trip and although he didn't know how much of the hour-long film will focus on P.E.I., most of the section on Canada will be about the couple's time on the Island.
He also didn't know when the show would air, but the deadline to complete the production is November.
