Billed as the next Jersey Shore, the latest reality show to hit TV screens nationwide is anticipated to be the steamiest series in network programming to-date, set in a city where censorship is a four letter word and everyday vanity is as common as the silicon enhancements. Top photo with the cast, they appear in the following order: Kris, David, Nancy, Vicky, Eyal, DeDe, Karina, Nathan, Stephanie, and Morgan. And the girl focused on in the second row is Nancy.
The Catalina, is a new reality series from Warner Horizon Television and Beach Pictures premiering on The CW on Tuesday, May 29th (8pm/7c). Set against the sun-soaked sands of Miami Beach, the show follows the young, testosterone-charged staff of The Catalina Hotel & Beach Club located in the epicenter of South Beach. The entire cast of The Catalina will be making their first ever ‘post-production’ public appearance at the hotel on Collins Avenue for the show’s red carpet Premiere Party on Tuesday, May 22nd, starting at 8:00pm, at which a number of surprise celebrity guests are expected to attend the raucous celebration.
The sizzling summer series is the first ever reality show set in a South Beach hotel and features ten of its fun-loving staff members, each with different positions at the hotel and with ages ranging from early twenties to mid-thirty year-old managers, each representing the melting pot of cultural and ethnic diversity that only Miami Beach can offer. The cast, made up of exotic Latinos, middle-eastern delights as well as suave native Americans of home-grown talent, never fail to reveal their well-groomed looks and embellishments among colleagues, hotel guests and neighborhood beach-goers alike.
“The Catalina will show a true representation of young adulthood in South Beach, from those who have not only lived and worked here for most of their lives, but from some who were actually born and raised here,” says cast member Nathan Lieberman, executive producer and owner of The Catalina Hotel, who conceived the reality series. “The individual backgrounds and diverse cultures that each of the characters embody is what makes the show so unique and unlike anything we have seen. This assortment of ethnicity, together with everyone’s openness and laid-back (but sometimes steamy) personalities, is what makes our relationships on and off the screen so ‘caliente!’ Viewers will experience a wild but exciting ride within the infamous Catalina Hotel – known all over the country for its non-stop and continuous debauchery!”
The show will follow the group as they manage their relationships with each other, while working hard to create a fun, exciting experience for the guests at the hotel. When the group works and parties together, drama always ensues. The two pool bartenders, Nancy and Kris, used to date and still have to work together, which causes jealousy when Kris flirts with fellow staff and hotel guests. Bartender, David, does his best to fit in with his fellow co-workers, while pool cocktail server, DeDe, often serves as the voice of reason with the group. Forming their own dysfunctional family unit, the fun-loving group works hard during the day, while at night, they party even harder than their guests.
Kung Fu, the hotel’s popular Asian restaurant, is always bustling and restaurant general manager, Morgan, is all business as she tries to keep things flowing. Luckily, she has her best friend, Eyal, who serves as the restaurant bartender, to keep her sane in times of stress. The front desk team consists of Vicky and Karina, best friends who love to stay after work and party at the hotel where trouble inevitably follows. Meanwhile, hotel owner, Nathan, and general manager, Stephanie, work to maintain order and keep the guests happy. All of this is just a day’s work for the employees of The Catalina.
The Catalina Hotel & Beach Club is part of the esteemed South Beach Group, founded by real estate developer and hotelier, Alan Lieberman, in 1998. The hotel acts as the flagship property for the organization that owns more than ten popular boutique hotel destinations and resorts in Miami Beach, including Hotel Chelsea, Chesterfield Hotel & Suites and the newly opened Riviera Hotel & Suites, among others. The South Beach Group is not unaccustomed to hosting nationally televised reality shows after the cast and crew of Jersey Shore took over The Metropole South Beach hotel for the entire filming of season two.
THE CATALINA will air on Tuesdays, 8:00 – 9:00 p.m. ET on The CW, and debuts on Tuesday, May 29th, 2012, as one of the summer season’s most provocative rollercoaster rides through America’s southern Riviera.
The Catalina is Executive Produced by Beach Pictures in association with Bischoff Hervey Entertainment and Warner Horizon Television. Co-executive producers include Eric Bischoff (“iMPACT Wrestling,” “The Devils Ride”), Jason Hervey (“iMPACT Wrestling,” “The Devils Ride”), Ted Iredell (“All About Aubrey”), Perry Dance (“All About Aubrey”), Adrian Baschuk (“Disengagement”), Nathan Lieberman (Beach Pictures) and Jorge Moreno.
