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 Post subject: BBC TV series to be filming in Gary , Indiana
PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:20 am 
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GARY -- London's BBC television network will visit Gary next month to film scenes for its "Wonders of the Universe" show.

Gary's Board of Public Works and Safety considered whether to give permission to the BBC during its weekly meeting Wednesday.

Controller Celita Green said the BBC is thinking about filming the Palace Theater, City Methodist Church, Union Station, and along Broadway and Washington Street. The six-member film crew would work in Gary between Oct. 5 and Oct. 8.

Phillip Koch, a location manager for the BBC, said the show will try to make "very esoteric" points about what might happen when planets or stars decay.

The filmmakers will use Gary's buildings as visual metaphors.

"Out of all the places in the world you chose Gary, Ind.," Jones said.

Green pointed out the BBC filmed in Gary once before. The Empowerment Zone's Ben Clement also said "there was a bit of a sales job" on behalf of the city to lure in the BBC's crew.

"So this is something we want?" Jones said.

Filming here means the BBC will be required to pay City Hall's filming fees. It won't be clear how much it will owe until it decides exactly where it wants to film.

Structures to be used as visual metaphors in "Wonders of

the Universe"

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 Post subject: Re: BBC TV series to be filming in Gary , Indiana
PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:44 am 
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So you view the use of the cities dilapidated structures to illustrate decay a good thing?

That is about as bad of PR as you can get. LOL

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 Post subject: Re: BBC TV series to be filming in Gary , Indiana
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Inadvertently the racist slinging mud post the worst pictures of Gary all over the Internet and have advertised the city of Gary and turned Gary into a worldwide filming set bonanza.

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