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Article: The Bay Area on TV: A prime-time player
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- August 13, 2009
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IN ORDER to stage a stunning tanker-trailer explosion for the
pilot episode of NBC's upcoming medical series, "Trauma," filmmakers
shut down a stretch of San Francisco's Interstate 280 for five
grueling days.
It was the only time actor Kevin Rankin hasn't felt welcome in
the Bay Area.
"There were some ticked-off people driving by and giving us the
one-fingered salute and yelling, 'Go back to Hollywood!'" he
recalls, flashing a sheepish smile. "But I can't blame them. We were
tying up traffic."
Those kind of hassles apparently come with the territory when a
TV production company leaves behind film-friendly Southern
California to shoot entirely in the Bay Area, as the "Trauma" team
has. But ...