Marietta Street closed by TV show
At first glance, it looks like a big deal: Two cars collided in downtown Atlanta, with police redirecting traffic around the scene.
But the disinterested bystanders, including several police officers who are not rushing to help -- and all the lighting and the people with hand-held radios yelling "second team, second team" -- indicates this is no emergency.
Indeed, the one-block stretch of Marietta Street between Spring Street and Centennial Olympic Park Drive was closed Sunday afternoon for the filming of a different kind of scene -- one for an up-coming television pilot called "Franklin and Bash."
The one-hour comedy by Atlanta-based TBS stars Breckin Meyer ("Road Trip,” “Rat Race”), Mark-Paul Gosselaar ("Saved by the Bell,” “NYPD Blue,” “Raising the Bar”) and Malcolm McDowell ("Clockwork Orange,” “Tank Girl,” “Star Trek Generations”).
Scores of people loitered on the sidewalk outside the Glenn Hotel on Marietta Street. Most of them were extras in the show. The technical crew, and all its equipment, worked in the shade of a nearby garage, as workers hustled observers along and out of the picture.
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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.
