South Florida steams up reality TV screens
Tags: Bravo, E!, J-Woww, Jersey Shore, Jose Lambiet's Page2Live, Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami, Lea Black, Miami Beach, MTV, Pauly D, Real Housewives, Roy Black, Snooki, The Situation, Willie Kennedy Smith
| Wednesday 10 March 2010 10:29 am
Not just one, but four reality television shows based in South Florida could be polluting the airwaves by fall.
“I guess that makes us the reality TV capital of America,” said Miami-Dade County Film Commish Jeff Peel. “We’ll take it.”
The Real Housewives of Miami, a Bravo production that’s been on and off for months, is definitely back on, Page2Live has learned.
And if you like your boob-tube really trashy, then you’ll be happy to know that the new season of Jersey Shore — the MTV show starring yutes, I mean youths, who would’ve made great extras on The Sopranos — is going to be filmed in Miami Beach.
The cast of Jersey Shore
And then, the Kardashian sisters‘ Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami is well into production of its second season. And Oxygen’s Bad Girls Club is scheduled to kick off production of its new season in Miami next month.
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The new Real Housewives will join the crowded lineup of clones, which take place near Los Angeles, in New York City and in Atlanta, sometime in the fall.
Lea Black, with husband Roy (click on the photo for more)
Although producers are trying to keep it on the down low, several Housewives camera crews worked lawyer Roy Black’s recent Miami Beach gala fundraiser. One talkative Bravo source at the wingding told me cameras were focused on Black’s wife, former West Palm Beach resident Lea Black. She’s expected to be one of the main characters, if not the face of the series.
Lea Black, 56, was a juror on the West Palm Beach rape trial of Kennedy clan pretty boy Willie Kennedy Smith in 1991 when she met Black, who was Smith’s defense attorney. Ultimately, Smith was found not guilty, and Roy married Lea. Since then, she’s been a homemaker involved in Roy’s charity work.
As for Jersey Shore, J-Woww, The Situation, Snooki, Pauly D and the rest of the guidish gang are preparing to start taping next season’s footage within the next two weeks in a yet-to-be-announced house in Miami Beach, according to the Miami Herald.
Is all this lowbrow stuff any good for the area image?
“Lowbrow is in the eye of the beholder,” Peel said. “These things wouldn’t be produced if there weren’t huge audiences for it. We’re not in the content business. We’re in the job creation business, and those shows create jobs.”
“’Lowbrow is in the eye of the beholder,’ Peel said.”
But what if it’s a blind eye?
South Florida has become the dumping ground for dreadful location reality shows. SAD.
they will fit in nicely down there.
If poor taste were pennies, these people would be wealthy.
great place for these nomads….i am surprised they didnt want to do the show in new york, i mean boca raton….same thing!!!!!!!
oh boy, all they’re going to be doing in Miami Beach is complaining there’s no good PiZZa. “Ther’es no good Pizza” Where we gonna find some good pizza?”
i like the show but those broads are NASTY. they are “4″s at best in Miami. And the meatheads, they can’t even score hot chicks with their fake tans and workout looks, how pathetic is that? Hopefully there will be more b**** slapping this season.
If there were ever a reason to deny being from New Jersey, these guidos and bimbos are it. And the really scary part is that these mutants are going to think at some point what a great idea it is to spawn and create more of these genetically, mentally and socialy retarded misfits.
Talk about some Jersey scumbags.
Those people are gonna get their asses kicked down here.
A guy calls himself the situation , are you kidding me.
Can you say WHITE TRASH. I saw the girl get punched in the face in a bar for running her mouth.
In Florida if you do that people will just shoot you, it happens all the time.
I have no clue how this white trash ever got on Tv
I would love for them to get in a fight in MIA.
I really hope they curb thier tone in Miami…They will might get into real trouble there…People are different here…when it comes to loud mouth people
Im sorry but the show is called “JERSEY Shore” right?! Not “Miami Beach” And of course theyre going to start filming in a couple of weeks because thats when spring break is!
Are they going to change the name? How can you film a show called Jersey Shore in Miami, Florida? I dont get the logic there. Also all the posts about them being douche bags and what will happen here if they are; Im totally agreeing. I think it would be funny to see there losers pop off and get whacked. But there will be some dumb b1tches that will be all over those fa&&ot guidos; and some dumb tools who will be all over the Jesery Shore Wh0res.
Wow…I didn’t think Miami could afford anymore D**bags!
That cast certainly does NOT represent the Jersey Shore in any way, shape, or form! They are paid actors/actresses, and in-fact only one of them is actually from New Jersey…and Northern New Jersey at that…not even from down-the-shore!
Beachliz,
you hit it dead on lol! If I have to listen to one more f*&%ing NY transplant complain about the pizza and bagels I am going to lose it.. just direct them all to Flakowitz deli in Boca.. “at least they got a deli down heya” I have a theory.. that the pizza and bagels in NY are secretly filled with steroids, hair gel, and tanning lotion and without those three vital components a NY/NJ douchbag can’t survive outside his natural habitat.
Cowabunga!
Shouldn’t her name be “Lea RACK?”
this hicks cant afford miami. tell em to go back to that trashy shore and state that they come from.
and as for Miami housewives, are they going to show the real ones with their 80 year old sugar Daddy’s?
With that botox pout and attitude look of lack of sex from those sugar Daddy’s?
I thought it was jersey shore?…….just like everything the losers from jersey come here and muck things up..Stay in jersey !
i think jersey-shore and miami are about on par. Its true, jersey sucks, but how does the typical tribal tattoo ford pick-up driving piece of sh1t FLoridian make the kids down here a better archetype? Lets face it, the US would be better without everyone under 25 in both states