{"id":47248,"date":"2021-04-21T12:01:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T18:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/nbc-universal-sets-sights-on-montezuma-county-for-new-tv-show\/"},"modified":"2021-04-21T18:01:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T18:01:12","slug":"nbc-universal-sets-sights-on-montezuma-county-for-new-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/nbc-universal-sets-sights-on-montezuma-county-for-new-tv-show\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Universal sets sights on Montezuma County for new TV show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e5856018-7d78-4d77-8956-8c4eda3cb1cf&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"NBC Universal plans to film the pilot episode of a new drama series centered on a Native American lawmaker this summer in Durango and Montezuma County.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">NBC Universal plans to film the pilot episode of a new drama series centered on a Native American lawmaker this summer in Durango and Montezuma County.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Stock.adobe.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Durangoans might want to dust off their acting chops. NBC Universal is planning to shoot the pilot episode of a new series in town this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The new drama is centered on a Native American lawmaker, and the pilot episode could generate $7.87 million in spending and at least 190 local jobs, according to the <em>Denver Business Journal<\/em>. If the show is picked up as a series, it would be the first scripted major-network television series to come to Colorado in decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not the first time Durango has been a little starstruck. We have a long history of filmmaking in and around Durango,\u201d said Dean Brookie, the city\u2019s mayor.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 films have been shot on location in and around Durango since 1925, including \u201cCity Slickers,\u201d \u201cButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,\u201d \u201cThe Prestige\u201d and \u201cNational Lampoon\u2019s Vacation,\u201d according to Durango.com. This pilot would be shot in Durango and Montezuma County and in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just an ongoing recognition of our authenticity as a community, our natural resources and our creative economy,\u201d Brookie said.<\/p>\n<p>The project from writer\/producer William Jehu Garroutte will be produced for ABC, the second major media company in the mix, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/denver\/news\/2021\/04\/16\/nbc-universal-television-series-denver-durango.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denver Business Journal article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Garroutte has written for the TV series \u201cStumptown\u201d and produced two documentaries, \u201cLittle Hope Was Arson\u201d and \u201cIndependent Lens,\u201d according to the IMDb.com.<\/p>\n<p>The state government already approved $1 million in film incentives for the project and would need to find more if it is picked up for the usual 13- to 26-episode series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a wonderful opportunity and possibly a significant boost to the economy,\u201d Brookie said. \u201cI hope the series recognizes the cultural aspects of our history and Native American population in an appropriate form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:smullane@durangoherald.com\">smullane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project could be filmed this summer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[950,28,4751,337,2460],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-durango","tag-headlines","tag-mass-media","tag-television","tag-television-industry"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47248"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}