South Florida steams up reality TV screens

Not just one, but four reality television shows based in South Florida could be polluting the airwaves by fall. “I guess that makes us the reality TV capital of America,” said Miami-Dade County Film Commish Jeff Peel . “We’ll take it.” The Real Housewives of Miami , a Bravo production that’s been on and off for months, is definitely back on, Page2Live has learned. And if you like your boob-tube really trashy, then you’ll be happy to know that the new season of Jersey Shore — the MTV show starring yutes, I mean youths, who would’ve made great extras on The Sopranos — is going to be filmed in Miami Beach. The cast of Jersey Shore And then, the Kardashian sisters ‘ Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami is well into production of its second season. And Oxygen ’s Bad Girls Club is scheduled to kick off production of its new season in Miami next month. For more, look below or click The new Real Housewives will join the crowded lineup of clones, which take place near Los Angeles, in New York City and in Atlanta, sometime in the fall. Lea Black, with husband Roy (click on the photo for more) Although producers are trying to keep it on the down low, several Housewives camera

crews worked lawyer Roy Black ’s recent Miami Beach gala fundraiser . One talkative Bravo source at the wingding told me cameras were focused on Black’s wife, former West Palm Beach resident Lea Black . She’s expected to be one of the main characters, if not the face of the series. Lea Black, 56, was a juror on the West Palm Beach rape trial of Kennedy clan pretty boy Willie Kennedy Smith in 1991 when she met Black, who was Smith’s defense attorney. Ultimately, Smith was found not guilty, and Roy married Lea. Since then, she’s been a homemaker involved in Roy’s charity work. As for Jersey Shore , J-Woww , The Situation , Snooki , Pauly D and the rest of the guidish gang are preparing to start taping next season’s footage within the next two weeks in a yet-to-be-announced house in Miami Beach, according to the Miami Herald . Is all this lowbrow stuff any good for the area image? “Lowbrow is in the eye of the beholder,” Peel said. “These things wouldn’t be produced if there weren’t huge audiences for it. We’re not in the content business. We’re in the job creation business, and those shows create jobs.”

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South Florida steams up reality TV screens

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