South Beach Tow

South Beach Tow

Robert Ashenoff Jr., Robert Ashenoff Sr., and Christie Ashenoff
Genre Docudrama
Created by Jennifer Lopez
Simon Fields
Starring South Beach Towing
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 4
No. of episodes 86 (as of December 3, 2014)
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Anthony Horn
  • Benjamin Nurick
  • Jennifer Lopez
  • Jessica Shreeve
  • Josh Ackerman
  • Simon Fields
  • Zachary Werner
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) Bodega Pictures
Nuyorican Productions
Broadcast
Original channel truTV
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original run July 20, 2011 – present
External links
Website

South Beach Tow is an American television series that portrays dramatized reenactments of the day-to-day business of South Beach Towing Company airing on the American cable channel truTV. Although the program is fictionalized,[1][2] Tremont Towing is a real Miami towing company.[3][4] The series premiered on July 20, 2011.

Inception

According to cast member Christie Ashenoff, the idea for the program came after Tremont towed the car of Simon Fields: "He tells us that a few days later a light bulb went off in his head that if he lost his mind, that everyone else must too".[5] Jennifer Lopez produces the program through her production company, Nuyorican Productions.[6][7]

Plot

The show's scenes generally center on the cast towing vehicles and facing different levels of opposition from vehicle owners. South Beach Tow also portrays Tremont Towing engaging in several disputes with a rival towing company called The Finest Towing. The Finest is shown to employ very corrupt drivers who go as far as stealing tows, injuring Tremont drivers, and once putting sugar in several of Tremont's trucks' gas tanks. The drivers at Finest responsible for the latter were arrested on camera, although those scenes were part of the staged script. Tremont Towing continues to rival with Finest, now named "Goodfellas"[8] - which is now part of Tremont. On the last episode of season three, Christie and Perez planned a partnership between R&P and Tremont, which goes haywire when the R&P Towing office explodes (due to a towed person throwing his cigarette in the building while they were in the middle of an exterminating process), but they were able to get this back on track.

Beginning of season four, South Beach Tow has moved to Miami, located at the former Goodfellas lot, which is now called "South Beach Towing". Meanwhile Bernice and her mother, Reva, start a food truck business.

Staged performances

Although the show is officially classified as a reality television program, it depicts actors performing reenactments of events. When questioned on the program's veracity, a spokesman said that the show "features real people and is based on real situations. Due to production needs, some scenes are reenacted".[9] At the end of each episode, during the credits, a disclaimer is now posted "The stories that are portrayed in this program are based on real events".

Prior to TruTV's admission that scenes were reenacted, several news outlets reported evidence that the show was not a true "day in the life" documentary. Rumors persisted about the obvious use of wireless microphones by everybody with a speaking part in the show and the over the top nature of much of the program's content. The celebrity gossip blog Radar posted a video of actors politely awaiting the start of a violent scene.[1][9]

Cast

South Beach Towing Office Managers

Drivers

Other Cast

Former cast

Episodes

Season Episodes Season premiere Season finale
1 21 July 20, 2011 May 23, 2012
2 26 September 19, 2012 August 14, 2013
3 26 October 30, 2013 June 25, 2014
4 14 September 10, 2014 December 10, 2014

Season one (2011–12)

No. in
series		 No. in
season		 Title Original air date U.S. viewers
(million)
11"A Family Business"July 20, 20111.63[10]
22"Tow Wars"July 20, 20111.57[10]
33"Chaos in the Yard"July 27, 20111.50[11]
44"Broken Truce"August 3, 20111.45[12]
55"Training Day"August 10, 20111.43[13]
66"Anger Management"August 17, 20111.70[14]
77"Muay Thai Surprise"August 24, 20111.53[15]
88"Memorial Day Mayhem"August 31, 20111.39[16]
99"Growing Pains"February 15, 20121.31[17]
1010"Taking Out the Trash"February 22, 20121.66[18]
1111"Assault on Tremont Towing"February 29, 20121.16[19]
1212"Sand in the Face"March 7, 20121.51[20]
1313"The Hurricane"March 21, 20121.18[21]
1414"Unlicensed to Drive"March 28, 20121.32[22]
1515"Stranded"April 4, 20121.22[23]
1616"Search and Rescue"April 18, 20120.96[24]
1712"A Very Tremont Christmas"April 25, 20121.09[25]
1818"The Dog House"May 2, 20121.36[26]
1919"Money All Day"May 9, 20121.53[27]
2020"Trouble at Tremont"May 16, 20121.35[28]
2121"Goodfellas"May 23, 20121.41[29]

Season two (2012–13)

No. in
series		 No. in
season		 Title Original air date U.S. viewers
(million)
221"Bernice Pops Off"September 19, 20121.62[30]
232"The Heat is On"September 26, 20121.33[31]
243"Lights Out"October 3, 20121.11[32]
254"No Country for Perez"October 10, 20121.52[33]
265"Ruthless"October 17, 20121.64[34]
276"What's Up With Christie?"October 24, 20121.83[35]
287"The Last to Know"October 31, 20121.44[36]
298"Black Dahlia"November 7, 20121.43[37]
309"The Inspection"November 14, 20121.67[38]
3110"Hit It and Quit It"November 21, 20121.39[39]
3211"Storm Clouds"November 28, 20121.63[40]
3312"Go Down Towing"December 5, 20121.73[41]
3413"Snakes in the Yard"December 12, 20121.54[42]
3514"Who's the Boss?"May 15, 20131.43[43]
3615"Run These Streets"May 22, 20131.42[44]
3716"Wide Load"May 29, 20131.21[45]
3817"Compromising Positions"June 5, 20131.60[46]
3918"For Love or J-Money"June 12, 20131.31[47]
4019"The In-Laws"June 19, 20131.57[48]
4120"Everybody Hates Tremont"June 26, 20131.53[49]
4221"Big and Beautiful"July 10, 20131.38[50]
4322"Bumps in the Night"July 17, 20131.75[51]
4423"Tremont on Wheels"July 24, 20131.48[52]
4524"Kosgrove Gets Krunk"July 31, 20131.66[53]
4625"Christie's Choice"August 7, 20131.80[54]
4726"A Tremont Wedding"August 14, 20131.51[55]

Season three (2013–14)

No. in
series		 No. in
season		 Title Original air date U.S. viewers
(million)
481"Tremont Got Served"October 30, 20130.85[56]
492"Caged Heat"November 6, 20130.78[57]
503"Bernice Goes Down"November 13, 20131.28[58]
514"Here Kitty"November 20, 20131.11[59]
525"Dave's Dance Battle"November 27, 20131.07[60]
536"Bernice's Revenge"December 4, 20131.28[61]
547"The Incredible Journey"December 11, 20131.10[62]
558"Roommates"December 18, 20131.39[63]
569"Bernice Unleashed"December 25, 2013N/A
5710"Casanova Kosgrove"January 1, 20141.46[64]
5811"Touchy-Feely"January 8, 20141.43[65]
5912"Fashion Disaster"January 15, 20141.05[66]
6013"The Struggle is Real"January 22, 20141.17[67]
6114"Face Plant"March 26, 20140.91[68]
6215"Game Changer"April 2, 20140.95[69]
6316"Little Man, Big Donk"April 8, 20141.00[70]
6417"Take the Money"April 16, 20141.09[71]
6518"Spanglish"April 29, 20140.83[72]
6619"Creepin"May 7, 20140.84[73]
6720"Sink or Swim"May 14, 2014N/A
6821"Adios Kosgrove"May 21, 20140.90[74]
6922"Mystery Date"May 28, 20141.26[75]
7023"50 Shades of Bernice"June 4, 2014N/A[76]
7124"Perez Strikes Back"June 11, 2014N/A[76]
7225"On the Floor"June 18, 2014N/A[77]
7326"Deuces, Tremont"June 25, 2014N/A[78]

Season four (2014–15)

No. in
series		 No. in
season		 Title Original air date U.S. viewers
(million)
741"Apocalypse Tow"September 10, 20141.62[30]
752"Flipping Out"September 17, 20141.62[30]
763"The Legend of the Swamp Ape"September 24, 20141.62[30]
774"Pulling the Plug"October 1, 2014N/A
785"A Taste of Bernice"October 8, 2014N/A
796"Maximum Power"October 15, 2014N/A
807"Family Therapy"October 22, 2014N/A
818"Towyard of Terror"October 29, 2014N/A
829"The Customer is Always Wrong"November 5, 2014N/A
8310"Crazy in Love"November 12, 2014N/A
8411"South Beach Glo"November 19, 2014N/A
8512"Pain & Gain"November 26, 2014N/A
8613"Checkmate"December 3, 2014N/A
8714"Bernice's Top 20 (bonus episode)"December 10, 2014N/A

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