• Downtown was the focus of Bravo’s popular reality series “Real Housewives of Orange County.” Recently, the show began its sixth season of filming, which included a trip to San Diego. The women visited the Gaslamp District with great enthusiasm, enjoying the visual experience and entertainment value. The new season is scheduled to begin airing in January. • Believe it or not, print work was actually affected by the overcast weather and looked for sunnier spots to film instead of San Diego. We usually get some fashion shoots for the downtown look, so weather was a disappointment for this kind of filming business. • Sept. 8 will be the premiere date for our new television series called “Terriers,” starring Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James, who recently was seen on the popular HBO TV series “True Blood.” Tune in to the FX Channel on Wednesday, Sept. 8 at 10 p.m. to see the pilot. Although primarily filmed in Ocean Beach, locations throughout San Diego can be recognized. We hope the show is well-liked and watched so that the production will be back to film another season here. They hired more than 100 local crew people, hundreds of extras and spent millions of dollars. To see previews of the show visit the FX website at http://vod.fxnetworks.com/watch/terriers. • We had several travel-focused projects that included shots of downtown. One project was AOL Travel, which spent four days in San Diego capturing footage of local tourist locations to add to its website. The mobile production team filmed segments in Balboa Park, Gaslamp District and San Diego Bay. These projects are especially welcomed because not only do they spend money in our communities, hire locals and stay in our hotels, but their projects sell San Diego as a tourist destination at no cost to us. • In Fiscal 2010, more than $50 million was spent in San Diego by the production business. These figures are calculated by direct survey from the productions and no multipliers are used. — Cathy Anderson is the president and CEO of the San Diego Film Commission, and film commissioner of San Diego. Anderson has earned a national reputation for developing programs to foster the growth of the production industry in the region, and for making America’s Finest City “Hollywood South” for more than 23 years.