Big Love, the HBO drama about a fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah that practices polygamy, has always filmed in Santa Clarita, northwest of downtown Los Angeles. And although most of the much awaited third season will still be shot on the show's main set, fans will be able to see a change of scenery when the series returns with new episodes in January 2009.
In fact, the cast and crew of
Big Love is presently in Woodland, California as part of a weeklong filming stint that will take them all over Yolo and the neighboring counties.
According to Wayne Wall, whose company was hired to provide security while
Big Love was in town filming, the cast and crew arrived in Woodland last Thursday as part of a storyline that involves a family road trip retracing the step of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism. Of course, the production staff would not offer any other information about plot details or the filming schedule since it's against HBO policy.
Big Love, which counts Tom Hanks as one of its executive producers, stars
Bill Paxton as Bill Henrickson, a modern-day polygamist who loves with his three wives, Barbara Dutton Henrickson (
Jeanne Tripplehorn), Nicolette Grant (
Chloe Sevigny), and Margene Heffman (
Ginnifer Goodwin), as well as an avalanche of debt and demands.
Also featured on the series are Amanda Seyfried, Douglas Smith, Shawn Doyle, Bruce Dern, Daveigh Chase, Grace Zabriskie, Harry Dean Stanton, Joel McKinnon Miller, Matt Ross, Shawn Doyle and Mary Kay Place, just to name a few.
The show premiered on March 12, 2006 following the sixth season premiere of the acclaimed HBO mob series
The Sopranos and earned favorable reviews, which eventually led to second season renewal. For its sophomore season,
Big Love was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Drama Series in 2007.
-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source:
Daily Democrat
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