ABC’s new reality game show Crash Course premiers tonight.  The show was shot on Detroit’s Belle Isle this past summer and features a contestant team form Royal Oak Michigan.

Also, the cast and crew members of the tween TV show The Wannabes have taken up residency in Howell, Michigan where the show is being shot this upcoming fall and winter.

Most, if not all, of the out-of-town cast and crew members are living in the same Howell-area apartment complex while filming lasts at least through early 2010.

Five members of the cast are school age, and will receive schooling of some kind during production. Producers are in talks with the Howell district to potentially enroll them in the district. [read more]

Hmm, I wonder if old Senator Nancy Cassis is counting all of the cast and crews’ personally daily spending and rent in her assessment of the Film Tax Incentives (which I’m sure will spill over into her nearby district)? My guess is she is not, but she should!