Hollywood Light Shines on Brookhaven

The one-hour television drama series Necessary Roughness was filmed Wednesday night in Historic Brookhaven on Club Drive.  Cast trailers were posted at the Lynwood Park United Church of God in Christ on Windsor Parkway. Due to the dozens of equipment trucks and cast trailers, the traffic on the already tight but quiet two-lane residential road was stop-and-go. The crew was expected to move to another part of Atlanta to continue filming Thursday.

No one would grant Patch an interview, but directed media inquiries to Sony's public relations department.

The show's Pilot episode was filmed in Atlanta in November and December. It was was picked up for 12 episodes in January.

Entertainment Weekly reported: "Necessary Roughness (Sony Pictures TV and Universal Cable Productions) is about a Long Island divorcee (Throne) who gets a job as a therapist for a pro football team and soon finds herself landing all sorts of high-profile clients. It’s from writer-producers Liz Kruger and Craig Shaprio (Miami Medical)."

The show is expected to debut June 29 with a 90-minute premiere episode on the USA network.