My report for The Austin Chronicle on NBC's Texas-shot second season of Revolution:
Evan Cauduro, 11, heard about it from friends at school. Then his
family was at a dinner party where a woman talked about the call for
"weird people." At home, Evan rushed to the computer and began to sign
himself up. His father Paul uploaded two photos – one of Evan in his
baseball uniform and another from the boy's school science fair. Soon
Evan was staying up all night in grungy clothes. He ran dangerously
close to an oncoming horse. And you might just see him as a background
extra on Sept. 25 when the NBC series
Revolution debuts its second season, its first as a Central Texas-shot phenomenon.
The show is headquartered in Austin for a 22-episode sweep that will
continue into May, says Gary Bond, head of the Austin Film Commission,
but cameras have been popping up at Decker Lake and in Maxwell, downtown
Taylor, Cedar Park, and elsewhere. The conventional wisdom is each
episode results in $1 million in local spending. "That's the wonderful
thing about television," Bond says. "It's the gift that keeps on giving.
The potential for them to be here five years is there."
Read the rest in
The Austin Chronicle here.
See photos from the Bartlett set
here.
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