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Fri October 12, 2007

TV series seeks to film show here

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'Saving Grace' in OKC?
Academy Award-winning actress Holly Hunter today said she hopes some scenes from her new TV show can be filmed here.
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About "Saving Grace”
Debut: July 23 on TNT.

Viewership: An average 5.5 million each week, according to wire reports.

Second season: 15 episodes that will begin airing in June or July, said series creator Nancy Miller.

The premise: Oscar-winner Holly Hunter plays Grace Hanadarko, a hard-drinking, fast-living, emotionally tormented Oklahoma City police detective who asks for help from God after a jolting drunken-driving incident, and finds herself in the company of an unconventional angel named Earl (Leon Rippy).

Seeing the sights
Before they leave Sunday, "Saving Grace” cast and crew will visit:

•University of Oklahoma vs. University of Missouri football game.

•Oklahoma Centennial Regatta Festival on the Oklahoma River.

•Bricktown.

•Oklahoma City National Memorial.

•Pops in Arcadia.

•Cattlemen's and Mickey Mantle's steakhouses.

•Johnnie's Charcoal Broiler.

•Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and Grill.

•National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

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By Brandy McDonnell
Entertainment Writer
The cast and crew of the hit television series "Saving Grace” want to add a new star to the show — Oklahoma City.

The key
Thursday morning, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett presented actress Holly Hunter and Oklahoma City-raised series creator Nancy Miller with keys to the city at a news conference in the Skirvin Hilton Hotel's Centennial Ballroom. The women are among 22 "Saving Grace” writers, actors and producers visiting Oklahoma City this week on an intensive four-day cultural and location scouting tour.



Local flavor
Miller said the series walks a fine line between using stereotypes and setting the scene in Oklahoma. In the second season, she wants to put less emphasis on cowboys and tornadoes and more on the city's metropolitan side.

What's next
The chamber of commerce and film office will meet to discuss possible funding options for filming.

Cornett said he doesn't expect the city to use tax dollars for filming. He said that pop culture can help the lack-of-image problem on the east coast, west coast and internationally. Just a scene of Hunter rowing on the Oklahoma River could help dispel the dry and dusty image.

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