MIAMI (PGN) >> The first TV drama to shoot in Miami in 20 years may have to pack its bags and find a new home.Burn Notice, a U.S. cable series about a former spy who's stuck in Miami, is filmed primarily at the Coconut Grove Convention Center, which the city plans to tear down to make room for a waterfront park. Miami officials told producers the show could stay until July but Fox Television Studios says it needs the property until September 2009 to shoot all 16 episodes of its third season.
The series, which airs on the NBC Universal-owned USA Network and on stations in more than a dozen countries around the world, stars Jeffrey Donovan (pictured), Gabrielle Anwar and Sharon Gless. It is the first scripted series to shoot more than one season in South Florida since Miami Vice in the mid-'80s. (CSI: Miami and Dexter – though both set in Miami – are actually filmed in Los Angeles.)
Production of season two wrapped up last month and Fox says it can’t start work on the next season until March. City commissioner Marc Sarnoff has said Burn Notice shouldn’t be permitted to delay redevelopment of the publicly-owned site.
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The series, which airs on the NBC Universal-owned USA Network and on stations in more than a dozen countries around the world, stars Jeffrey Donovan (pictured), Gabrielle Anwar and Sharon Gless. It is the first scripted series to shoot more than one season in South Florida since Miami Vice in the mid-'80s. (CSI: Miami and Dexter – though both set in Miami – are actually filmed in Los Angeles.)
Production of season two wrapped up last month and Fox says it can’t start work on the next season until March. City commissioner Marc Sarnoff has said Burn Notice shouldn’t be permitted to delay redevelopment of the publicly-owned site.
Photo courtesy NBC Universal, Inc.
