1. E! Online News February 8, 2001 12:15 pm (PT); Article "Baywatch": "Aloha" Means
Goodbye; by Mark Armstrong; Article covers: Baywatch Hawaii has been canceled, ending an 11-year run that revived
the career of David Hasselhoff and made sex symbols out of Pamela Anderson, Yasmine Bleeth, Carmen Electra and
Donna D'Errico. With escalating production costs, and ratings that even silicone couldn't keep from sagging, Pearson
Television North America said it was time for Baywatch to end.
2. WIRE (Honolulu) April 3, 1999 3:29 (ET); Article "Hawaii Snatches Renewed 'Baywatch'
TV Series From Australia"; Article covers: A labor dipute that nearly saw the long-running television show about buff and
busty lifeguards pack up and leave for Australia has been resolved. The show will now be based in Hawaii. "It's going to be
a blast," cast member Brooke Burns said Friday on Waikiki Beach. After nine years in Los angeles, the show's creators
were planning to move production to Queensland, Australia, because of increasing costs and declining ratings. But Hawaii official
stepped in, making a pitch to bring the show to honolulu and Haleiwa on Oahu's North Shore. Executive producer Gregg
Bonann said he preferred to keep the show in the United States if he could afford it, and the deal seemed ready to go_until
a local Teamsters official refused to agree to a wage reduction for Hawaii's movie and television industry drivers. The deal
seemed dead, and Bonann announced he was off to Australia to make "Baywatch Down Under." Then Gov. Ben Cayetano
stepped in, offering Leo Reed of the Teamsters Local another $200,000 for wages from the state and
improved working conditions for drivers. Production is expected to pump $20 million annually into Hawaii's stagnant economy.
"This program will give us exposure that we couldn't possibly afford," Cayetano said. When "Baywatch Hawaii" begins
airing in September, it will mark the return of the state to the little screen_for the first time in seven years. After the
12-year run of "Hawaii Five-0" and eight-year run of "Magnum PI," Hawaii hasn't had a successful weekly
series since "Jake and the Fatman" left the islands in 1992 after four years. "We've celebrated California culture
and lifestyle for nine years and now we get to celebrate Hawaiian culture," Bonann said.
