TV shoot shuts down Jefferson Parish streets for a week

Waggaman is ready for its closeup -- but that means traffic disruptions for motorists in the Jefferson Parish community.

The Hulu series “Looking for Alaska” will be filming stunt driving scenes in the 5000 block of Live Oak Boulevard on Friday and Saturday (April 5 and 6), but preparations for the shoot will result in the full closure of both lanes of South Kenner Avenue at 950 Kenner Ave. through 9 p.m. Monday (April 8) and the full closure of both lanes of Live Oak Boulevard from Rivet Boulevard to South Kenner Avenue also through 9 p.m. Monday (April 8), according to the Jefferson Parish film office.

Rivet Boulevard will remain open during the shoot.

Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies will be stationed at both closure sites for the duration of the shoot.

Based on the coming-of-age John Green novel of the same name, the eight-episode "Looking for Alaska" stars Charlie Plummer ("Lean on Pete") as a bookish teenager who sets out to unravel the mysteries behind the death of an alluring young woman -- named Alaska and played by Kristine Froseth ("Sierra Burgess is a Loser") -- who stole his heart.

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It is scheduled to shoot in the New Orleans area through May. It's one of a number of TV projects either shooting or preparing to shoot in town. Others include:

• the fifth season of the CBS series "<a href="http://topics.nola.com/tag/ncis%20new%20orleans/">NCIS: New Orleans</a>," currently underway.
• the second season of the Pop TV web series "Hot Date," which started filming Monday (April 1);
• the third season of the TNT series "<a href="http://topics.nola.com/tag/claws/">Claws</a>," which is filming thorough the end of April;
• the fourth season of the USA series "<a href="https://www.nola.com/entertainment/2019/01/usa-network-series-queen-of-the-south-is-trading-dallas-for-new-orleans.html">Queen of the South</a>," which is filming through late June;
• the fourth season of the OWN series “<a href="http://topics.nola.com/tag/queen%20sugar/">Queen Sugar</a>”;
• and the second season of the USA Network series “<a href="http://topics.nola.com/tag/the%20purge/">The Purge</a>,” which begins shooting April 23.

Mike Scott is the movie and TV critic for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune. He can be reached via email at mscott@nola.com or on Twitter at @moviegoermike.

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