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'One Tree Hill' to be filmed in Honey Grove
By Bill Hankins
The Paris News
Published January 31, 2007
HONEY GROVE — Film crews will converge on Honey Grove next week to produce an episode of the television show “One Tree Hill.”
Honey Grove's downtown square will be redone to include an Italian Bistro near where the leather goods store is now.
More than 150 people, mostly local students, former students and others, will be added to the cast for the installment of CW Network teenage drama. The episode is expected to be shown nationwide in late February, and can be seen locally on television Channel 33.
The decision to choose Honey Grove for the episode came about because of the enthusiasm and talents of eight Honey Grove High School students.
When producers of “One Tree Hill” invited students across the nation to submit a 30-second video showing how much they love their town, eight students — Heather Blair, Hannah Milford, Vicky Christopher, Allison Fitzgerald, Logan Sandy, Regina Jolmon, Crissy Blair and Hudson Milford — jumped at the chance to promote “The Sweetest Little Town in Texas.”
The video the group made was one of more than 100,000 from across the nation submitted to the producers, who first narrowed their choices down to 12 before coming to Honey Grove High School to announce to the student body their video had won.
“They said they liked our enthusiasm and originality in the video,” said Hannah Milford, whose brother Hudson Milford filmed the video. “I can't remember much they said after they told us we had won. I was so excited.”
As grand prize winner of the competition, producers said, Honey Grove would be the site of the filming of an episode of "One Tree Hill."
For the past two weeks, an advance “set-up crew,” under the direction of Matthew Devlen, has been preparing, in near secrecy, the local arrangements for the filming.
Devlen is overseeing the casting of extras for the show and choosing the sites for the shoot. Those sites will include a school gymnasium and the downtown Honey Grove square.
Filming will take place Tuesday Feb. 6 through Friday, Feb. 9.
Devlen said two days of filming will take place in Honey Grove with two additional days of filming to take place in and around Paris.
The eight students who produced the winning video will have featured roles in the episode, which will be based on the night of a high school prom.
In addition to extras for the show, Devlen has been securing vehicles and other items to be used in the filming.
Devlen said city officials, including city secretary Jaci Garner, and city staff members have been invaluable in helping him scout locations, cast extras and set up for the filming of the Warner Brothers production.
Honey Grove's square will be shut down during the filming.
More than 60 youngsters named to the cast showed up Tuesday night at Honey Grove's City Hall to be measured for tuxedos to be worn in the show. Those tuxedos will be furnished by Studio 2 Photography Black Tie Affair Tuxedos of Paris. Costumes for others are the next step toward preparation for the filming.
Even Honey Grove Police Chief Mark Johnson will have a role in the episode, playing either prom security or a prom chaperone.
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