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Casting Begins for "The Vineyard" Reality TV Show

Expect to see some fit-looking and hopeful young people if you're around the Mansion House later this week: According to reports, producers for reality TV show "The Vineyard" are holding appointments with potential local cast members.

Producers for the newly-announced ABC Family show "The Vineyard" aren't wasting any time: They're meeting with potential cast members at the Mansion House in Vineyard Haven this Thursday and Friday and holding more auditions in Boston over the weeked, according to reports in the Martha's Vineyard Times and Vineyard Gazette.

Executive producer Dave Broome told the Times that shooting would begin in May and likely end before the Fourth of July.

According to the Gazette, interested potential cast members can send their information to yong@257tv.com for consideration.

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ABC Family, part of the ABC Disney entertainment network, described "The Vineyard" in a press release as a "coming-of-age docu-soap" about a group of young people living together in a house on Martha's Vineyard.

The location of the house had not yet been determined, according to the Gazette report.

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For more about the show, and local reactions, please see:

  • Reality TV Show "The Vineyard" Announced
  • Is "Vineyard" Reality TV Show "Worst Idea Ever"?
  • Reality Show Tops Vineyard Stories This Week

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