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COMMUNITY NEWS |
The Prater's Creek Gazette 15th Issue Fall 2007 Page #2 |
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an unprecedented, and bizarre, move, seven, popular television reality shows
have been filmed in Prater’s Creek for the Fall Season. All three of the
major networks, along with Fox, MTV, and the Arts & Entertainment (A&E)
channel have “hillbilly versions” of their popular shows in the can, ready
to air starting this
It was an exciting summer in Prater’s Creek with all of the television cameras and crews about town. And a lot of local folks were picked to participate in the shows’ new season. MTV was the first to pick Prater’s Creek when Inez Buttercup wrote the entertainment uber channel, asking if her “Sweet Sixteen” party could be featured on the station’s My Super Sweet Sixteen. Inez, who was a 15 year old sophomore at Prater’s Creek High at the time, wanted her birthday party to be, as she says in the first episode, “the biggest hootenanny this dang town’s ever seen!” We can’t get give away the details of the show, but let’s just say Inez got her wish when her daddy cooked three pigs, she got a new John Deere tractor, and The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show played her party! Inez said that for her, and her friends. “getting to clog to the band playing ‘Sally Gooden’ was the best present of all!”
The fellow from New Jersey “begged to keep Ruby Sue after the show’s filming
wrapped up” Selinski recalled. It seems the Yankee had become smitten with
Ruby Sue. “She had the prettiest voice, like Scarlet O’Hara” he said in a
phone interview. “And them biscuits she made every morning! And she brought
some black raspberry jam from Prater’s Creek she’d made. She also brought
this bucket with a crank on it and I never knew what it was. Then one night
I told the family that we were all going out for ice cream after supper, I
mean dinner. Ruby Sue called it ‘supper’, ain’t that, er I mean isn’t that
nice? Well, Ruby Sue got that bucket out and said she was gonna make ice
cream! She cut up some peaches, and poured in some milk and started
cranking. It was the best tasting ice cream my
Next in town, and not wanting to be left out, was the FOX network. They filmed a show called American Idler, where ten men laid around a house, that the network provided, to see who could go the longest without going out and getting a job, or doing any chores around the house. The contestants were disqualified if they did anything but go to the refrigerator and/or to the bathroom. By the time the show ended, the grass in the yard was waist deep, the trash hadn’t been carried out in two months, and 1103 empty pizza boxes were laying around the house, along with 200 cases worth of empty beer cans and bottles. FOX came back to film their popular game show Are You Smarter Than A 5-th Grader? Local residents were put off by host Jeff Foxworthy’s visit. “Why that’s just an act!” Jenny Heart told the Gazette. “He ain’t no redneck! He irons his blue jeans!” A&E also go into the “Prater-ization” of one of their shows when Flip This House came to town to film a special episode titled Flip This Outhouse.
Next week, when most of the shows will air with the start of the new Fall Season, TV Guide will have a special issue with five different covers. (The cover pictures to be used or seen here on these pages.) |
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month.
Next
in town, CBS came knocking to film Big Bubba, where eight
contestants lived in sports editor Bubba McCalister’s house to see who was
the best whittler and fisherman. “Shoot!” Bubba told the Gazette, “that
purty gal from Wellesley College whittled as good as any of the men. And was
almost as good at tying flies!” When asked about the tabloids' front-page
stories of he and the show’s host, Julie Chen, and their reported romantic
fling, Bubba told the Gazette “She’s a real nice lady. Makes great
hushpuppies!” 
children
and I have ever had!”
And
finally, Country Music Television followed Grandpa
of The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show around
for a week filming his everyday life for Grandpa:
Coming To Ware Shoals. The network had seen the “Grandpa-Cam” on the
band’s website and was taken by the bluegrass patriarch’s dynamic
personality and exciting life. CMT executives said they had “priceless
footage of Grandpa getting a haircut, whittling
on the front porch of Livwright’s General Store eating Vienna sausages and
saltine crackers. And we have nearly 50 hours of him in his rocking chair on
his front porch, a half-empty jug at his feet, writing songs for Beverly!”