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Hollywood's favorite Hawaiian island for reality shows may be getting another one. Lifetime Television is deciding whether to greenlight the tentatively titled docu-soap "The Big Kahuna," which examines the competitive world of wedding planners on the Big Island. "Kahuna" producers were here last month for a week to film a presentation pilot for network execs.

If the show goes, the production will film 13 half-hour episodes in February, focusing on wedding planner of the stars Debbie Cravatta, owner of Paradise Weddings Hawaii in Waikoloa Village.

The storyline will show "the rumor-mongering and back-stabbing that exists in Cravatta's cutthroat industry." "Kahuna," a co-production of Authentic Entertainment, Kevin Dill Productions and Magna Global Entertainment, was created by Lora Marcus, the show's executive producer with Dill, Lauren Lexton and Tom Rogan. Marcus reportedly discovered Cravatta when she went to Hawaii to plan her own wedding. Cravatta planned the Nicolas Cage-Lisa Marie Presley nuptials, Nikki Sixx's (Mötley Crüe) first wedding, and several other Hollywood types. Cravatta's been coordinating weddings on the Big Island since 1990 ...

"Hawaii Five-0: The Movie" writer George Nolfi ("Ocean's Twelve") has returned to Hawaii several times to scout locations, mostly on the Big Island ...

ABC's "Lost" recently used the spectacular Sullivan mansion in Pupukea as a location with set designer Rick Romer and company transforming it in one day to an English country estate where, in a flashback, Dominic Monaghan's character Charley is fighting his drug addiction. "Lost" is on hiatus until Jan. 3 ...

"Lost" relocation redux: Jorge Garcia, who plays Hurley, says any mention of moving the show out of Hawaii to save money has been quickly criticized by cast and producers. And the state, specifically Gov. Linda Lingle and company, just wouldn't let it happen.

The damage to Hawaii's reputation in letting a Top 10-rated show get away, along with much of its nearly $3 million-an-episode budget, would be devastating, not to mention simply stupid ...