News Release

Hollywood comes to UDM for "The Prince of Motor City"

Large TV production visits McNichols Campus

ABC's big fall TV series is the show, The Prince of Motor City, about a college professor at Harvard who returns home to Detroit to take over his dad's auto company (think modern-day Hamlet).

Location directors scouted 10 different schools and decided that University of Detroit Mercy would best mirror Harvard University. A large production crew rolled onto UDM's McNichols Campus and shot scenes in the Chemistry Building lecture hall, June 30. The scenes are planned for the series pilot episode.

The cast of Prince includes Warren Christie and Aidan Quinn (who were on campus), as well as Rutger Hauer, Andie MacDowell, Piper Perabo, and Aunjanue Ellis. The pilot episode is directed by Jack Bender, executive producer and director of ABC's hit series, Lost. (The crew at UDM included 12 Lost crew members who are on hiatus from Hawaii.)

Photos from the UDM shoot are online at Kodak Gallery. (Click the Slideshow image, then the "Play" button to view all.)

Release date: July 02, 2008

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