Move over, "Jersey
Shore" cast. A bunch of wild
young West Virginians are about to fill your time slot.
MTV will begin airing the reality show "BUCKWILD,"
shot in Sissonville and Charleston,
at 10 p.m. on Jan. 3, spokeswoman
Candice Ashton said Thursday.
Details about the series were to be released later in the
day, but last fall, the network said it had ordered 12 episodes of the show
featuring a group of young people recently out of high school and their
"colorful antics." A preview clip posted on Entertainment Weekly's
website shows the cast drinking and swearing, four-wheeling and fighting, even
filling a truck with water and using it as a swimming pool.
The executive producers are Zoo Productions and J.P.
Williams of Parallel Entertainment, a native West Virginian best known for
creating Blue Collar Comedy.
The West Virginia Film Office denied tax credits to the
producers over concerns the show would negatively portray the state's young
male residents, the latest front in a continuing battle over stereotyping.
In 2002, public outcry prompted CBS to drop plans for
"The Real Beverly Hillbillies," which was to feature residents of
rural Appalachia plunked down in the middle of Beverly
Hills. A year later, the horror film "Wrong
Turn," shot in Canada,
was set in a hypothetical West Virginia,
where cannibalistic mountain men terrorized lost tourists.
And in 2008, state leaders responded vehemently when a
casting company looked to West Virginia
for extras to play inbred degenerates.
On the upside, though, was last year's Paramount Pictures
blockbuster "Super 8." It was set in Weirton,
the same town used for some scenes in the classic Vietnam
film "The Deer Hunter."
The 2004 film "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton" was
partially shot in Fayetteville,
which stood in for the Putnam County
town of Fraziers Bottom, where the
script was set.
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