San San Diego residents and visitors will have a chance to see a television show being filmed on Wednesday, April 7, when Balboa Park's Spanish Village Art Center will be the location for a day's shooting of a new series for the FX cable channel.
Crew members were installing set pieces, cables and equipment Tuesday afternoon in preparation for the next day's shooting of Terriers, a Twentieth-Century Fox production scheduled to premeire this fall. Filming is scheduled to start at 7 in the morning.
While some parts of Spanish Village Art Center will be closed off for shooting, the Village itself will remain open to the public, and many of its shops and studios will remain open for business.
The Show
"Terriers" has been in production in San Diego for several weeks. The comedy/drama stars Donal Logue and Michael Raymond James as two Ocean Beach friends who form an unlicensed private detective agency. It has been described in Variety as a "comedic drama ... about a pair of private eyes with maturity issues."
The show's creators and executive producers are Shawn Ryan, creator the the acclaimed FX drama "The Shield," and Ted Giffin, the writer of the motion picture "Ocean's 11."
FX has ordered 13 episodes of "Terriers." Each episode takes about one week to film, according to the San Diego Film Commission. The show has been filming at various locations in Ocean Beach and throughout San Diego County. Casting for extras is being handled by Background San Diego.
The Village
Spanish Village is located off of Park Boulevard between the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Natural History Museum. It was was built for the 1935 California-Pacific International Exposition. Since 1948 the quaint buildings surrounding a colorful piazza have housed artists and artist guilds and organizations.
The location has been used several times for motion pictures and television shows.
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