Oildale’s Chris Black represents on Spike TV's ‘Murder’
Chris Black: 'Murder' he wrote
By: Matt Munoz / Bakotopia
Description: Oildale native represents on episode of Spike TV's 'Murder' airing, 9/18/07! READ ON!
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Posted by matt Wed Aug 8, 2007 13:52:04 PDT
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Oildale native represents on episode of Spike TV's 'Murder' airing September 18th, 2007!
By Matt Munoz, Bakotopia.com Editor
Bakersfield is rapidly becoming a breeding ground for reality TV celebrities.
First, you have local party girl Brooke 'Pumkin' Thompson who’s managed to extend her 15 minutes of fame longer than it took the spit to dry on New York's face during “Flavor of Love.”
Now, it's time for the next potential Bako celeb-reality star to hit the boob tube.
Chris Black, an Oildale native now living in Carlsbad, Calif., will be appearing on the hit Spike TV reality crime/game show, “Murder,” on 10 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 18.
A “CSI for the armchair detective,” “Murder” is hosted by Det. Tommy Le Noir, a decorated Texas law enforcement veteran.
During the show, Le Noir introduces viewers to two teams of three contestants, all from various walks of life, and brings them to a highly detailed studio set - made to look like a crime scene and re-created from the files pulled from actual solved homicide cases.
Once given instructions on how to gather evidence and ask questions, both teams are left to solve the case within 48 hours.
Black learned of an open casting for the show back in March while watching an episode of “CSI” on the Spike cable network one afternoon and soon applied via the web.
“I thought, ‘Hey, this is something I should check out’,” said Black about his audition from his job in Carlsbad, Calif. where he works as a molecular biologist. “After seeing the commercial, I went to the Spike TV website and filled out the online application.”
(Ebony and Ivory: 'Murder' show hosts, coroner Dr. Howard Oliver (left) and Detective Tommy Le Noir. Photo by Joao Canzani / Spike TV.)
Considering himself just one in a sea of thousands of applicants vying for a spot, Black was optimistic he just might get chosen. Then, the phone started ringing.
“At first when I sent the application, I thought there was a 50/50 chance at best, but the more I began to hear from them (Spike), I became pretty convinced that they were gonna want me on,” he said.
And they did.
Picked out among several thousand other applicants, Black proceeded with the auditioning process that included more phone interviews and an IQ test before he got the official “You made it on...” message from producers.
“They said they had a really strong response at the first level so to be chosen was pretty cool,” he said.
It should be no shock the response was overwhelming. After all, reality TV is sometimes a short cut to stardom and infamy.
“Murder” producers Bunim - Murray Productions, best known for MTV's “The Real World,” and E!'s “The Simple Life,” among other reality television offerings, is known for casting model-like contestants and molding characters through the magic post editing.
“I don't think they were concerned with having the beautiful people on this show, like MTV or anything like that,” said Black. “Everybody watches detective shows like 'CSI', and a lot of people think about being able to solve a crime. On the episode I was on, we had a guy who flipped houses, a photographer, journalist, and bartender, so it wasn't like they scoured the country for intellectualites.”
Whoever cracks the case at the end of each episode wins. Winners then donate all prize money in their names to a victims charity in the community where the actual crime from the show took place.
“That was a pretty cool idea for the show,” said Black.
Enjoying his brief stint on reality TV, Black is now back at work, awaiting the airing of his episode on Sept. 18 and having a newfound respect for the men and women working in the real-life CSI world and acting profession - occupations he realized were not for him beyond viewing from the relaxing confines of his sofa.
“It was fun, neat, and different, but I don't have any desire to do it on a professional level,” he said with a laugh. “I appreciate my job now more than ever.”
Catch Spike TV's 'Murder'
-Tuesdays, 10pm
-Check local listings for channel in your area
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Wed Aug 15, 2007 18:59:34 PDT
The last episode of Bridezilla I watched had a bakersfield couple on it...They didn't exactly help the city's image, lol. Her name was Alicia Klaunch.
Mon Aug 27, 2007 17:34:42 PDT
Hey, not only do we have Oildale native, Chris Black, appearing on Spike TV's "Murder" but Joe Hartman Davis, sophomore at Centennial High School, yes, right here in Bakersfield, will appear as a "suspect" on tomorrow night's episode, which also airs again on September 1st.
Wed Sep 19, 2007 09:32:22 PDT
Very cool
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