Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Television Terriers, Hellcats Debut Tonight
Posted by Chris Herrington on Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM
Memphis Beat may be over, but a couple of new Memphis-connected television series debut tonight.
- Hellcats kicks off tonight.
Also debuting tonight is Hellcats a cheerleading show that co-stars High School Musical's Ashley Tisdale and seems heavily influenced by Bring It On. Though filmed in Vancouver, the series is set in Memphis, at the fictional Lancer University. The premise is that protagonist Marti Perkins (Aly Michalka) is "a hip, edgy townie with working-class roots" who loses her scholarship and draws on her gymnastics background to reluctantly pursue an open cheerleading scholarship. When she makes the "Hellcats" squad at Lancer, Marti is "thrust into a world of camaraderie, backstabbing, and competition that takes place at the intersection of the Memphis music scene, backroom academia, college town politics, and big money collegiate sports — in the Deep South, football is God."
Color us intrigued but skeptical about Hellcats, which has the potential to make Memphis Beat's conception of the Memphis music scene look downright realistic. The series debuts at 8 p.m. tonight on the CW network.
We'll be checking out both Terriers and Hellcats, but we aren't promising to be interested for longer than one night.
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Wouldn't it be great if all these shows set in Memphis were actually filmed here?
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OK, I shamefully admit I tried to watch Hellcats & was disappointed. The only thing you truly see about Memphis are some Beale St. signs. I couldn't make it through 30 minutes of the show. There wasn't much southern culture except how serious cheerleaders are in the South. If this show makes it past the first season, I will be surprised.
I thought HELLCATS, after only one episode, is already the best and most important show on television.
Seriously though, you should've stuck around longer than a half-hour, Stbrnredhed. I mean, it's a dumb cheerleader show, but if you can swallow that flaw, it was kind of fun. And they actually went out of their way a few times to remind you that it's set in Memphis. (The giant mountain in the background in one scene notwithstanding.)
It's not set in real-world Memphis, but at least it errs on the side of hip and young and hot instead of 1950s South, a la Memphis Beat.
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