PARIS — Bruce McToose is back.

The intrepid traveler will be showcased on “The Paris Show,” which highlights the fictional Australian native’s visit to Paris, Maine, while searching for the Eiffel Tower.

During the show, which airs at 10:30 p.m. Thursday, June 16, and at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, June 18, on the Maine Public Broadcasting network, McToose meets some Paris citizens who share their knowledge of the town.

The television series features “Bruce McToose,” who is played by producer Steve Hrehovcik’s son Josh. McToose wanders through the towns of Maine with “foreign” connections.

The series was initiated more than three years ago in Norway, when McToose came looking for the famous fjords, walked through various businesses downtown and ended up at Lake Pennesseewassee with Selectman Bruce Cook, who is president of the lakes association, Hrehovcik said.

During the filming in Paris last year, Hrehovcik said he and his crew toured Paris, going to places such as the old jail on Paris Hill, which is now the Hannibal Hamlin museum; the Paris Cape Historical Society; the post office and Maurice’s Restaurant, among other sites.

Local historians Wini Mott and Ben Conant, who is interviewed in the show, helped with the film.

Mott, a former middle school history teacher who is considered by locals to be one of the go-to people for historical information about Paris, made recommendations about where the scenes could be shot.

Steve Galvin of the Norway-Paris community television station NPC11TV was asked to shoot the film.

In a statement about the series, Steve Hrehovcik said, “The series is all in good fun and uses the travel theme to reveal often overlooked historical, geographical and legendary facts about the people and places in Maine. Our plans for future shows will take Bruce McToose to the Maine towns of China, where he’ll want to stroll on the Great Wall, and Mexico where he’ll search for some Aztec artifacts. Also on our list of “distant lands” in Maine are Poland, Naples, Rome, Denmark, Sweden, Moscow, Egypt and several others. Our series has also traveled beyond Maine and promoted musical and community events.”

McToose will also be featured in another film about his visit to three places in Portland. That program airs at 10 p.m. Thursday, June 16, and at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 18. McToose visits the Old Port Festival where he takes part in the celebrations and interviews visitors to this annual event; tours the Observation Tower in Munjoy Hill, where he confuses this Portland landmark with the Eiffel Tower; and stops at the Narrow Gauge Railroad, which he gets mixed up with the Orient Express.

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