Another article about the filming of Three Rivers:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09086/958584-42.stm
'Three Rivers' begins local filming
Friday, March 27, 2009
By Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The CBS pilot "Three Rivers" started shooting in Pittsburgh yesterday, turning two locations on Duquesne University's campus into makeshift soundstages.
The pilot episode for a medical drama about transplant surgeons, donors and recipients used the A.J. Palumbo Center and the skywalk connecting the upper campus and Forbes Parking Garage with the Power Center.
"Three Rivers" also will film at Brownsville Tri-County Hospital, a 40-bed facility in Fayette County that closed in February.
"We looked at lots of hospitals, mostly the closed ones. We wanted the impact to be as minimal on the patients as possible," Dawn Keezer, director of the Pittsburgh Film Office, said yesterday.
"Three Rivers" needed access to patient, operating and emergency rooms along with hospital hallways. The 93-year-old Brownsville hospital had been in tangled bankruptcy proceedings before closing Feb. 11.
The production will be in Western Pennsylvania for two weeks and, based on locations and casting calls, dramatize a wedding and possibly a sports-related scene since the Palumbo is home court for Duquesne's basketball teams.
TV veteran Daniel Attias is directing the pilot, written by Carol Barbee and starring Julia Ormond, Alex O'Loughlin, Justina Machado, Christopher J. Hanke, Katherine Moennig and Daniel Henney. "Wonder Boys" director Curtis Hanson is serving as an executive producer.
CBS will announce whether or not "Three Rivers" will become a prime-time series on May 20 in New York. The subject could not be timelier, however, with roughly 101,300 candidates on the waiting list for organs such as kidneys, livers and hearts, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing.
Details on casting can be found at pghfilm.org. However, be sure to direct your e-mail to
fourthrivercasting@yahoo.com as listed on the site, and not to the film office or the Post-Gazette, which are not involved in casting.
Post-Gazette movie editor Barbara Vancheri can be reached at
bvancheri@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1632.
First published on March 27, 2009 at 12:00 am