On the map!

Quoted from The Glen Cove Record Pilot – September 21 edition.

Law & Order: Locale Glen Cove
If you’re a fan of the television program Law & Order: Criminal Intent, you may be watching an episode in the next couple of weeks and see some very familiar sites. The popular TV series was filming in the City of Glen Cove recently, along with lights, cameras and actors including stars Vincent D’Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe, who play, respectively, Detectives Robert Goren and Alexandra Eames.

The shot was arranged by the City of Glen Cove in association with Debbie Regan Locations, a local company which has used many a site in our fair city to do commercials, films, TV, videos and print shoots.

After a morning of filming on West Island, the crew headed for Robert M. Finley Middle School, temporarily renamed Water Haven High School. This reporter was lucky enough to catch up with Mr. D’Onofrio and was given the screen name “Scoop” by the actor. He also suggested Scoop “get out her pad and pen” to take notes on the “inside scoop” of what the afternoon held. “First,” he said, “I’m going to change my clothes. Then we’re going to rehearse.” It’s a direct quote.

After all the real-life middle schoolers had gone home, the crew got down to work on a scene with a cast of high school-aged extras and regular cast members.

According to Alex Galvez, a location assistant for the program, the episode called Siren Call, will be the fifth episode of the 2006 season, the sixth season of the show, and is scheduled to air on Tuesday, October 3 although the date of airing may change. TV fans understand that.

So tune in on Tuesday nights to NBC Channel 4, at 9 p.m. starting October 3 to see Glen Cove ready for her close up. You’ll recognize her when you see her.

Now, minus the fact that I absolutely hate the chick who wrote this article because of how phony she is (went to school with the whore), the article is true. I have a few ‘behind the scenes’ pictures but my scanner isn’t hooked up at the moment. The cool thing is that a few of the extras for the show came right out of the drama class of the actual GC High School (which is located about a half mile up the road from the middle school).

I haven’t seen the middle school in a good 8 or so years so it’ll be interesting to see how a few of the hallways have changed. I know they’ve moved some things around for filming but I’m also positive that a few of the ‘key aspects’ of the school (that are usually the first thing to hit you in the face when you walk in the door) will still be there. I’m excited for more than one reason of course.

This isn’t the first time the Law & Order series has shown itself in town. A few years back an episode of SVU was filmed here. There was also mention of Glen Cove in Law & Order, SVU and CI in past episodes as well…nifty right?

I haven’t watched the newer episodes of CI in a while because my Tuesday nights are wrapped up in Nip/Tuck lately and I’d completely forgotten that CI is on at 9pm and not 10pm so I’ll be able to get all of my shows in without conflicting schedules. W00t!

There will be a new layout up within the next 8 hours, once it turns midnight here on the island the theme will change over automatically to my October theme.

For now, I’m going to head back to cleaning up my room. I’m going to be taking my AC out today so I need to take a few boxes out of my closet so that it can fit back in there…heh.