why hasnt the city of houston gotten any notoriety on tv yet??!!!? (Dallas: neighborhoods, live)

[thenewtexan]

Originally Posted by Oildog

Because many of those shows like Real Housewives of xyz or Jersey Shore are essentially wealthy trailer trash - trust fund brats or Train wreck television, made for the SAHM and unemployed crowd. If you want that, COPS and Animal rescue have filmed here...unfortunately.

Speaking of wealthy trailer trash has anyone seen Big Rich Texas? Or shall I say Big $30K millionaire Texas? This is not something represents Texas any more than those Real Housewives of whatever.

[Michelle Morris]

Have any of you seen "The Client List"? It's been cancelled now but it takes place in Sugar Land and Beaumont.

[marcopolo2000]

Originally Posted by blkgiraffe

Those accents. You'd think we were nothing but dirty ass country bumpkins with no type of education. That movie did nothing for Houston's image. It was small town characters and story line using a big city as its backdrop.

That pretty much fits Houston in reality when it comes to the areas that were featured. The ghettos in Houston tend to be more "small town" than the gritty, urban areas in cities like Chicago. The accents were totally wrong but some of the scenery from the movie actually benefitted Houston, IMO.

[ipuck]

Originally Posted by Michelle Morris

Have any of you seen "The Client List"? It's been cancelled now but it takes place in Sugar Land and Beaumont.

Massage Parlor in Houston with Jennifer Love Hewitt??? Bummer I know there is something to watch for man on Lifetime and now is canceled

[Sampaguita]

I might have missed it being mentioned but REBA was written as taking place in Houston.

Housewives of Houston would be more garbage reality TV and not shed a positive light on Houston. They would just put a Texas spin onto unflattering stereotypes of spoiled, bitchy wealthy housewives. No, thanks.

[jerbear30]

I watched a really interesting low budget horror movie last night entitled, Room. Most of it was set in Houston and I have to say that for as far as it goes, it seems to be quite accurate.

[Michelle Morris]

ipuck, yes, apparently Jennifer LH is pregnant and was fighting with the writers/director about who should be the father on the show. She is married to the actor who plays Kyle Parks (her character's husband) and wanted him to be the father of the baby on the show but apparent;y the directors had other ideas.

[Michelle Morris]

JERBEAR--- Was ROOM about a young boy and his mom? I read the book, didn't know it was also a movie!

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by marcopolo2000

That pretty much fits Houston in reality when it comes to the areas that were featured. The ghettos in Houston tend to be more "small town" than the gritty, urban areas in cities like Chicago. The accents were totally wrong but some of the scenery from the movie actually benefitted Houston, IMO.

Not necessarily. You'd think those people were living in some small hicktown. It's not the scenery, it was the attitudes. "I gots ta get own up ouda hurr n get up to dallas cuz aint nuthin lef for me here massa" LOL just horrible!

I was just waiting for some plantation owner to ride through one of the hoods on a horse and whip somebody.

The storyline would have worked better for a small town. Houston at the time was a pretty successful city and hardly some bone dry jobless city full of bums and crime.

[Nairobi]

Jason's Lyric did make Houston seem a lot sleepier and slow than it actually is.