It’s 9 p.m. Friday night in the Arizona bar on Bacon Street, and inside several groups of patrons are transfixed to one or another of the many large television screens lining the walls of this Ocean Beach watering hole. Patrons wait as a new TV show with a familiar-looking backdrop is about to make its premiere on CBS on this evening. Most locals already know about the show, but apparently not all. A young man weaving his way back to the bar from the restroom turns to see what everyone is watching and exclaims, “Hey! It’s OB dude!” The new show, “The Ex List,” was filmed entirely on location in Ocean Beach over the past few months. The story is about an OB flower shop owner, Bella (played by Elizabeth Reaser) whose junk-food scoffing psychic tells her that she has already met, dated and dumped the man she is supposed to spend the rest of her life with. To make matters worse, the hyperphaging mystic predicts that Bella will be doomed to spend the rest of her life alone if she doesn’t reconnect with the correct “ex” over the course of the next year. After a series of minor prophecies become real in mysterious and often humorous ways, the 30-something business woman makes a formidable list of ex-lovers and embarks on a quest to strike the names from it until she finds Mr. Right. The noise in The Arizona is such that it’s impossible to hear the dialog on the TV, but perhaps that is little consequence. “I think that most of us sat down just to see our town in the background anyway,” says Greg Larson, who is following the plot by reading the closed captions racing across the bottom of the screens. “It’s really cool. They’ve got a plot going and it’s all making sense.” Sitting nearby, Denny Knox is also following the plot by reading the closed captions. Knox, who works for the Ocean Beach MainStreet Association (OBMA), says that she’s really enjoying “The Ex List.” “It’s fun to see the pier and the shops and some of the scenes are so OB,” she says. Mike Akey, who works with Knox at the OBMA, sums up the show as “just like Sex in the City but in OB.” Gary McAnally, another OB resident watching with Akey, says it was interesting to see the final product after watching the actual filming process over the last few months. One of the OB locals who also saw that process up close is Ted Wigler, a bartender and talent booker for Winston’s Beach Club where all the indoor bar scenes in the first episode were shot. “Our bar looked great!” says Wigler. “It makes OB look pretty good and I think that they encapsulated the OB vibe really well.” Like some people watching the show in OB on Friday night, Wigler’s friend, Bob Wilson, found it interesting to see some of the local landmarks but wasn’t so sure about the storyline. “They’ve got to work on the story a bit,” Wilson says. Wigler disagrees, however. “I think that they hit their target demographic,” which he believes is young women looking for a slice the Southern Californian beach lifestyle. Although the reaction among locals watching in OB on Friday night seems overwhelmingly positive, Wigler says he had heard shouts of “Go back to Hollywood!” and some less savory remarks several times during the four days of filming at Winston’s. “A lot more people benefit from this than the people who are telling these guys to get out of town realize,” says Wigler. “The restaurants are doing well and all the guys who are wrapping cable and pulling lights on the set are locals that I have run into at other events around town.” The show is slotted to run at 9 p.m. on Fridays on CBS-Channel 8.