Miami on TV: Burn Notice
Time for another edition of Miami on TV.
Seems every producer in Hollywood has re-discovered Miami and south Florida as the perfect local to base a show. And the creators of USA Network’s Burn Notice are no different. Premiering commercial free tonight at 10 PM, the series setup seems a bit original: a CIA agent Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) has been “burned” and put on “notice”. We learn almost from the start that a burn notice is CIA lingo blacklisted. Since he can’t work as a spy anymore, Western:
returns to his hometown of Miami without money and tries to find out why he’s been burned. In the meantime, he uses his skills and training to help people who can’t get help from the police.
Michael is joined by Fiona, played by Gabrielle Anwar– she danced the tango with Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman – an ex-IRA operative who also happens to be an ex-girlfriend; and Sam, played by Bruce Campbell, a washed-out military intelligence contact who’s being used by the feds to keep tabs on Michael.
The show is actually filmed in Miami, unlike Showtime’s Miami based show Dexter.
“We are thrilled to be shooting on location in Miami,’’ said Leslie Oren, senior vice president of publicity and corporate communications for Fox Television Studios. “The city is a character in Burn Notice, too, and it has been amazing to get to harness the authentic flavor and beauty of Miami throughout production.’’
Eight of the planned 13 episodes have been filmed. The exciting thing for south Floridians is that in:
three months of working in Miami-Dade, the show has spent about a quarter of a million dollars just on lumber, supplies and food. The city also figures that close to 200 people in Miami-Dade and Broward counties have been employed to work in some capacity on Burn Notice.
Here’s hoping to a long run.
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June 28th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
I would love to read some reviews of this show, just because I like Ms. Anwar and LOVE Bruce Campbell. Not in everything, but he does camp mainstream like nobody else! So if it gets good reviews I will probably add this to my List of things to watch … let me know what you hear, Ryan.
July 31st, 2007 at 7:00 am
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