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NBC’s ‘Hawaii’ pilot
will wind up MondayNBC's pilot episode of "Hawaii" wraps on Monday, with the network's decision to make it a series or not coming by the end of May. In a surprise move, the network has decided to relinquish its lease of the Hawaii Film Studio, where the production is based. This allows Fox Television to move into the $16,000 a month facility to film 12 episodes of its hotel drama series "North Shore," beginning May 1.
The Fox show's new executive producers, Chris Brancato and Bert Salke ("Boomtown"), are here scouting locations. The series, which may begin airing as early as July, will open with a montage of the state's finest beachfront hotels ...
LL Cool J is being courted to play helicopter pilot TC Calvin in Imagine Entertainment's big screen version of "Magnum, P.I." (The character was played by Roger Mosley in the TV series.) The movie's story will take place in the present, with the three friends veterans of the first Persian Gulf War instead of Vietnam. The Imagine Entertainment film is still set to begin in August ...
Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot's Disney-based Offspring Entertainment comedy "Overparenting" may include Hawaii filming. The story is about two overprotective parents who enroll their shy son in an exclusive kindergarden where he makes friends with another student with wealthy parents. His new friend's rich parents invite the family to Hawaii for what turns into a vacation from hell ...
The BBC will film on Oahu the docudrama "Tiger Tuesday" May 3 to 7. The show centers around the Maui woman attacked by a tiger shark off Oluwalu back in 1991. Anna Fishburn has cast at least six of the principal actors, all local ...
Producer Rick Dallago, partners with writer/director John Stockwell on the WB's one-hour drama "Rocky Point" pilot, reconfirms that pre-production in Hawaii will begin in June, with filming starting in July. The series would be a midseason pickup to air next January ...
Hawaii's 2003 film, television and commercial production revenues will be reported to be about $83 million, a 43 percent drop from 2002's $146 mill. Final figures will be released in April ...
KITV news anchor/reporter Mahealani Richardson has won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for her documentary, "War with Iraq, Through the Eyes of Hawaii's Kids." The entry now goes to the national competition ...
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