ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – A “reality” TV show will be looking for extras and possibly a cast member during the Orange Beach Festival of Arts this weekend.

Bulls on the Beach, which will have three shows here later in March, will be filmed during those performances at The Wharf for a show on National Geographic.

“It’s about the young American cowboy and the way they do business today versus the way they used to have to do business back in the day,” Bulls on the Beach partner Jerry Byrd said. “It’s an exciting deal and it’s great that the National Geographic channel is coming to Orange Beach. They have 440 million viewers in 161 countries. They had the choice of three shows and picked this one over the other two.”

Byrd will be set up in “Celebrity Corner” at the festival where three of the four locals in the Reef Wrangler series on the Weather Channel will meet with the public for four days on Saturday and Sunday.

This is the second “reality” show set in Orange Beach in the past year and the fourth involving Baldwin County. The others were “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Southern Nights.” Some of those cast members will be at the Bulls on the Beach events.

“Andrew Glassman filmed ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ and ‘Southern Nights,’ he was the producer on those,” Byrd said. “He absolutely fell in love with this place then. He comes down here quite often and hangs out with us. It’s become a real hotspot for reality shows.”

Two show participants from those two shows who will be on hand are Byrd’s partner and cowboy Cody Harris of Robertsdale and one of the ropers in the Bulls on the Beach show. The show will be based around Harris’ cowboy lifestyle.

“Cody’s going to be in it and Bubba Thompson who was in season three of ‘Sweet Home Alabama,’” Byrd said. “He finished runner-up. He works for us as a pickup guy. If we can’t get a bull to go back into the arena he ropes and takes it back.”

The cowboys will be riding ready to ride, March 16, 23, and 30, but on Saturday producers will be at the festival looking for people to be in the show.

“We’re just looking for some people if they need some extras they can call, plus it helps promote our event,” Byrd said. “We’re looking for male and female. This is the criteria they gave me: 21 to 29 and needed to be full of life with a great camera smile.”

The potential “stars” will fill out some paper work answer some questions, have a mug shot taken and be entered to win a pair of tickets to one of the three events. Byrd said a pair of tickets will be given for all three shows.

“We’ll be interviewing at the festival there,” Byrd said. “They’ll fill out sheet and I’ve got a series of questions they wanted me to ask. I’ll be sitting there asking questions.”

Byrd said he is giving the producers a database of potential people to use in the show and they will be called if needed.

“There’s going to be a crowd of people there and we would call them in if we need them and have a pass for them at will call,” Byrd said.