{"id":370615,"date":"2026-07-12T23:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370615\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T23:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:09:15","slug":"frisco-king-films-in-university-park-road-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370615\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Frisco King\u2019 films in University Park, road closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The filming is scheduled to happen on the portion of SMU Boulevard where the university\u2019s fraternity houses are located. The street from Airline Road to Bush Avenue was closed from 2 to 4 p.m Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Hillcrest Avenue, from Daniel Avenue to Lovers Lane, was also closed Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m., with detours to allow access to Snider Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>One lane of Hillcrest Avenue closed Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tony Scalia, a nearby resident, said he spoke with a security guard during the filming Friday, who said Samuel L. Jackson was shooting inside Bibbentuckers, a dry cleaning store. Bibbentuckers had a new sign on Sunday that said \u201cSunset Dry Clears\u201d for the filming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s disruptive from a traffic perspective, but in terms of bringing people into the area, I think it\u2019s a good thing,\u201d Scalia said.<\/p>\n<p>The city of University Park notified residents Thursday that various road closures would occur on July 10, 12 and 13 due to filming from an external production company, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/universityparktx\/photos\/traffic-advisory-hillcrest-closure-july-12an-external-production-company-will-be\/1468683718626351\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook post<\/a> from the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Frisco King follows Russell Lee Washington Jr. (Jackson), a hitman introduced in Season 3 of Tulsa King, as he relocates to Frisco to build a new life and criminal operation. Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney has described the series as a fish-out-of-water comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Frisco King <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/retail\/article\/frisco-king-lands-highland-park-village-shoot-22279102.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently filmed<\/a> in Highland Park Village on May 27. The show has appeared across North Texas since March, filming in Fort Worth and Southlake, where it also closed roads.<\/p>\n<p>The show is seeking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/article\/samuel-l-jackson-frisco-king-extras-dfw-texas-22276438.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extras<\/a> for different areas around North Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The filming is scheduled to happen on the portion of SMU Boulevard where the university\u2019s fraternity houses are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,92708,90394,89304],"class_list":["post-370615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-frisco","tag-tp-taylor-sheridan","tag-tp-university-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}