

“It’s always difficult to be in a young country like Canada and looking for old architecture, like, ‘This is not a Russian ballroom, this wasn’t built in the 1600s!’ ” says Jones, who adds that the cast traveled to Europe for that very reason. Most of the action this season was filmed in Vancouver, so it took some strategizing to make it look like Russia or Tibet for certain scenes. I like it - I think when you’re painted into a corner, you work harder and come up with more irreverent ideas.” “The constants are me and the cast and the writers’ room. We switch pretty much all the crew every year,” he says.

I always hear people say that, but we’re so hard on ourselves. While most shows are well-oiled machines by the time they’re four seasons in, Jones says that’s not the case with “The Detour.” In Season 4, the Parker family (Natalie Zea plays Nate’s wife, Robin) globetrots from Tibet to New Zealand searching for their runaway daughter Delilah (Ashley Gerasimovich). In the series, created by Jones, Nate’s family is trailed by criminal relatives, has run-ins with the law and is constantly relocating. If a teacher and a lawyer come home, what do you guys talk about? So in my opinion, it’s a perfect relationship that way.”Ī perfect relationship is a far cry from what Jones’ character, Nate Parker Jr., has with his family on “The Detour,” back for its fourth season (10:30 p.m. “I don’t know what regular couples talk about - no one wants to talk about their job to a person who doesn’t understand it. so I don’t know what it’s like not to work with her,” says Jones 46, on the phone from Maine, where’s he’s vacationing with their three kids.
SAMANTHA BEE HUSBAND PROFESSIONAL
Jason Jones and Samantha Bee are a busy married TV couple.Įach has their own show - Jones with the TBS sitcom “The Detour” and Bee with her TBS talk show “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” - and each also executive-produces the other’s show.īut Jones says balancing their personal and professional lives is no hardship.
