by Justine 
Reader and friend from the ‘hood Marisha emailed me this hysterical little tidbit from The Wall Street Journal on a new MTV show being shot almost exclusively in Greenpoint and how a bartender at Tommy’s Tavern gave them shit – which is pretty awesome.
Another forthcoming series, MTV’s “I Just Want My Pants Back,” a comedy about four recent college graduates, will be filmed almost exclusively on location in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
“Setting it in a…
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It was just picked up as a series in January, so won’t be airing for months. Shooting is just beginning; in fact most of the crowd last night heading up Manhattan to The Lobster Joint’s “friends and family” pre-opening probably didn’t notice but they walked right past Doug Liman and a handful of crew doing some test shooting.
As for “entertaining” or “infuriating”… well, I read the pilot episode script and unless it gets better I know I won’t be much interested in watching. There’s a limit to the amount of trite foolishness that cab be outweighed by glimpses of neighborhood sites. And really, it seemed more to be written for a high school audience than for “hipsters”, but maybe I’m just getting old.
They called the police on an intoxicated bartender IN THE GUY’S OWN BAR??? Was it too “real” for their reality show? “The friction between those two groups is something I was passionate about getting on screen”…. yes, we MUST film everything. I’m sure this show is going to keep really close to reality and not turn anything into melodrama…
Can someone please just shoot these people and get it over with. I’m tired of this crap.