North Shore heats up for TV, film

By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer

Warner Brothers' reality series "North Shore," with (from left, standing) Myles Padaca, Veronica Kay, Sunny Garcia, Danny Fuller; (from left, front row) Holly Beck, Damien Hobgood, Chelsea Georgeson, will screen in six episodes this year. The WB

Word got out this week that producer/director/writer John Stockwell will start production on the North Shore next month on a Fox TV pilot set in Hawai'i, "The Break."

Stockwell, director of feature film "The Blue Crush", hopes to sell Fox on "The Break" as a fall series. Praising Hawai'i locations, "I loved the majesty of the locations and the color of the sky," Stockwell told Entertainment Weekly.

"The Big Bounce," set in Hale'iwa, Waialua and Sunset Beach, ends camera work on the North Shore Wednesday.

The wave of publicity for Hale'iwa will peak this summer, when The WB network starts screening six one-hour episodes of a reality series, "North Shore," that wound up a six-week shoot just prior to Christmas. The series, pegged to the winter Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, placed surfers Sunny Garcia, Myles Padaca, Damien

Hobgood, Chelsea Georgeson, Holly Beck, Veronica Kay and Danny Fuller, living together in a North Shore home, in a big-wave take on MTV's "Real World" and CBS-TV's "Big Brother."

The buzz is increasing for a Norris Brothers series, which anticipates a slot on CBS' fall slate, with series star and co-producer Chuck Norris (of "Walker, Texas Ranger" fame) in a storyline involving the Coast Guard.

A "Baywatch Reunion" pilot, filmed last year, airs on Fox Feb. 28. David Hasselhoff is here shooting an infomercial and will film a segment for "Extra," the syndicated entertainment show airing on The WB.

"Extra" also plans to tape additional footage later this month or in February, with Hasselhoff swimming with dolphins and surfing, Roy Yamaguchi cooking in his kitchen and tours of ritzy mansions here. Larry Fleece, a former islander, is a producer for "Extra"; he was unsure if the Hawai'i segments would be shown as a Hawai'i-week series or as isolated snippets.

Actor Richard Chamberlain, who starred in the five-hour, 12-part "Shogun" mini-series in 1980, may be taping footage at the JW Marriott Ihilani Resort and Spa for a planned DVD release of the show later this year. Negotiations are under way with the Ihilani, the hotel featured in "Blue Crush," as a backdrop for planned interviews with Chamberlain for the DVD package.