According to Deadline, Alan Ball (creator/executive producer of True Blood and Six Feet Under) is getting another series, this time on Cinemax. The network has has given a 10-episode order to Banshee, an action drama about “an ex-convict and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, PA, where he continues his criminal activities even as he’s being hunted by the shadowy gangsters he had betrayed years earlier.”
Banshee will start shooting this spring in and around Charlotte, North Carolina, where Showtime’s Homeland is also filmed.
It was also announced this week that HBO’s Eastbound & Down will film one more time in Wilmington, NC next month.
According to Star News, casting agent Vanessa Neimeyer recently announced the show “will be back [in Wilmington] for 8 days of additional shooting in February.” Neimeyer said she would be posting additional details on her Facebook page as they become available.
Eastbound & Down‘s third and final season will debut on Feb. 19.
Though there are no filming permits issued for filming yet, Wilmington’s Screen Gems Studios (where Eastbound & Down’s offices are located) said workers with the series will arrive next week.
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“Banshee” will not in fact be filming in Charlotte. It will be filming exclusively in Mooresville. That’s misrepresentation.
No it is not exclusively filming in Mooresville. They are shooting in Mooresville but I know for a fact they will also be filming in Charlotte just south of Huntersville near Harris Blvd. as well as in Monroe with several shots of downtown Lincolnton as a possibility as well.
That’s not what I’ve been told. Be that as it may, its not filming exclusively in Charlotte as this article seems to say. I’ll find out more about the filming locations.
They are filming right now in Uptown Charlotte.
No, it’s not, it’s filming right up the block from my job as we speak in downtown Charlotte.
They are filming in 3 locations today and through the night – as that is how the balance of this week will be.
Right, not exclusively in Charlotte. The location in Charlotte is being readied for shooting at the end of the month so if they arent filming there they have spent a lot of time and money for nothing. I know the owner of the property. The other sites that have been given by the reps. were a old court room in Monroe, as well as a:”jail house” site, and possibly shots of main street Lincolnton, and Mooresville but they may have foregone Lincolnton altogether.
Good to have them bringing business in all over though. Excited to see all the locations, and hope it sticks around a couple of seasons to make a substantial impact.
Just to clarify – I didn’t say it would be filming only in Charlotte , I do acknowledge they will be filming in and around Charlotte, which was the best info available at the time this article was written…
They are filming in and around Charlotte – they have a stage in Charlotte and filming at locations in Monroe, Mooresville, Denver, Waxhaw and Lincolnton. Filmed in Monroe and Waxhaw yesterday and last night and in Mooresville today.
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