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Point Pleasant to be setting for devilish Fox TV show

Published in the Asbury Park Press 12/03/04

By NAOMI MUELLER

Looking for something familiar on television next year? You may not have to look much farther than Fox Broadcasting Company.

Fox announced earlier this week that "Point Pleasant," a television drama about a 17-year-old New York girl who washes ashore at the New Jersey beach town of Point Pleasant, will premiere next month. The show will be one of two new series aired by the network in January.

Fox's announcement, which was made Tuesday, comes six months after the network announced it would not show the pilot during its 2004-05 fall season. Yet Fox publicist Todd Adair said yesterday the network had a change of heart after receiving a second script and, in September, ordered 13 additional episodes of the series, described by the network as a mix between "90210" and "The Omen."

The show will premier at 9 p.m. Jan. 20 after "The O.C."
Although it is unclear whether Fox is depicting Point Pleasant, which does not have an ocean beachfront, or Point Pleasant Beach, which does, the show is set on the Jersey Shore. Yet the basis in fact stops there.

The show, which was created by John McLaughlin and Marti Noxon, the former executive producer of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," is being filmed in San Diego. Adair said Fox has no plans to film in New Jersey.

According to Fox, "Point Pleasant" is the story of Christina Nickson, a mysterious New York City teen who, after a strange boating accident, is rescued by Jesse Parker, a local lifeguard she shares an attraction with. Yet, according to Fox's plans for the show, the attraction between Jesse and Christina doesn't sit well with Paula, Jesse's girlfriend, who does what she can to keep her boyfriend.

After rescuing her, Jesse brings Christina to the Kramers, who invite her to stay with them while she searches for clues to her past and attempts to find her mother, who was from Point Pleasant but who Christina never met.

Yet what Christina doesn't know is that her presence in Point Pleasant is having a profound effect on the town's residents -- awakening repressed feelings, unlocking secret desires and heightening emotions.

But if you think Christina may be modeled on yourself or someone in your school, think again. Instead of simply learning about her family, Christina eventually learns that although her mother was normal, her biological father was the Devil.