Friend and VatulBlog commenter, Joel, asks, “I saw a preview on Fox last night for a new dramatic series called K-Ville, set in post-Katrina New Orleans. It looked — as far as I can tell — decent enough. Are they filming down there? Pouring some money into the local economy, I hope? And is there any hope that they will treat the city with respect?”
A well-informed source lets us know that
[K-Ville] is both good and bad for us because they want to use our house for the show, so we get money, but we can’t get in their way at all or anything like that so it’s just really annoying. A few hours ago they were putting a bunch of fake debris in front of our house, were painting a fake flood line on all of the houses, and a bunch of other fake hollywood junk.
Fair enough, one would have to get permission from absent homeowners to film in homes with a real floodline and real debris. But, lord, I hope the cameras caught some of the real languishing destruction.
According to the show’s writer-producer, “if you want to rebuild a city, where does it begin? It begins with protecting its citizens and making them feel secure. To me that’s a very hopeful sentiment.” So, Anthony Anderson is going to walk me to my car every night and keep the mail/package thieves and crack “prostitutes” off my front porch each day, right? Sounds like a good deal to me.
If the show is anything like The Big Easy, Fox had better be ready for a large package of rotten tomatoes.
Alright, little birdies, what do you know about this show that I don’t?
They filmed part of it on my street in late March. My neighbor’s house was Anthony Anderson’s, and my house was used as the house of his lover who got shot. They made all sorts of fake debris piles. I have heard it is full of cliches, white cop and black cop from the Lower 9th Ward. But I think Kalypso and Gilgamesh, my children, have brief screen time in the end of the pilot. Plus we got paid $2000, so we’re huge fans already.
I am stockpiling tomatoes at this very moment.
i’m actually really interested to see a cop show that does not take place in new york or l.a. or miami or vegas (or any tv show for that matter). although there is always the danger that people will more readily believe that tv fiction is reality even if it is nothing like it. we shall see…
I’ll be sure to watch and keep an eye out for y’all. Especially when they do the Rollergirl sting episode.
Can I get autographs from Kalypso and Gil?