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Article: Swimming pools, movie stars, you?: Network scouring South for reality-based 'Beverly Hillbillies'
- Article from:
- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 29, 2002
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CBS is bringing back "The Beverly Hillbillies." This time,
however, the family members we laugh at won't be played by Hollywood
actors; they'll be real live rubes from the South.
After spending decades trying to shed the Bubba image it
contracted in the 1960s when its prime-time lineup included a slew of
backcountry characters, CBS has decided to embrace once again its
biggest hick hit of all. The network already has a crew of casting
agents combing "mountainous, rural areas" in Arkansas, West Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky in search of a "multi-
generational family of five or more - parents, children and
grandparents - who will be relocated for at least a year" to a ...