
{"id":21852,"date":"2011-11-10T11:34:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T16:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=21852"},"modified":"2011-11-10T11:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T16:34:50","slug":"reality-dating-show-auditions-carrboro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/11\/10\/reality-dating-show-auditions-carrboro\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality dating show auditions Carrboro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Susan Dickson<br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nLove-seekers take note \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Carrboro is in the running to become the setting for a new reality dating show, and castings around town this week could provide singles with a shot at love \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and an opportunity to get on the small screen. <\/p>\n<p>The show, Lovetown USA, produced by the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) and the BBC, seeks to guide singles on the quest for love over a 30-day period, while examining the effects it can have on an American community. Producers are looking for a storybook, picturesque town with a population of about 15,000 and a strong sense of community to serve as the setting for the show, and Carrboro is among the finalists under consideration.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21853\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/11\/10\/reality-dating-show-auditions-carrboro\/lovetown2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21853\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Lovetown2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lovetown2\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Lovetown2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Lovetown2-113x74.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Lovetown2-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Lovetown2-100x65.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Cosby (left) and Erick Davis discuss the Lovetown process with Lindsey Dunbar at Open Eye Cafe on Tuesday. Photo by Alicia Stemper <\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFilming kicked off Tuesday at Glasshalfull and Open Eye Cafe, in the midst of Election Day, and continued Wednesday at the Carrboro Farmers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Market and Southern Rail. <\/p>\n<p>Richard Jaimeyfield, owner of Dogwood Productions, a local production company, said producers contacted him and asked him to produce a film about Carrboro including applicants to the show. Jaimeyfield said he jumped at the opportunity, though he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t consider himself to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pro-reality TV\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in general. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If we get Oprah here to do something like this, it shows what a great town Carrboro is,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jaimeyfield said, noting how the show could expand opportunities for artistic growth in the community. <\/p>\n<p>Jaimeyfield said he hopes to illustrate in the demo Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unique character; he plans to ask Billy Sugarfix to perform his famous \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u009d song for the film. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have to show who we are,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I want to show the beautiful freak flags that we have here.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Sara Campbell, a graduate student at UNC, said she applied to be on the show in order to explore a more creative way to find love. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153[In the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area,] I feel like we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all kind of in our own little social circles,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said, adding that she feels like it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult for her to meet people outside of the med-school clique. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think it might be interesting to get an outsider\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perspective,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Campbell said she believes Carrboro would be a great place to film the show. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think that small towns kind of get stereotyped as kind of bumbling, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not that way,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Casting calls will continue Friday at Jessee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Coffee &#038; Bar and The ArtsCenter, and Jaimeyfield said he plans to send the film to producers on Monday.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love-seekers take note \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Carrboro is in the running to become the setting for a new reality dating show&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21858,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21852\/revisions\/21858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}