So as those of you who follow me on Twitter know…we wrapped the filming of Season 3 last month. We started filming in July of last summer. We shot “Splash” for Season 2, and 12 new amazing episodes for Season 3. The plan is to release them on a REGULAR schedule in early 2012. Yes, that is right- you won’t have to wait in the dark, with cold sweats from Hot Mess withdrawal any longer. You will get one Hot Mess a week for your entertaining pleasure. 
Anyway- so we thought we would take this time to give you some fun nuggets of catastrophe as they happened during the rest of our filming, since all 15 of our readers enjoyed reading about DAY ONE so much. So without further ado:
July 14th-Amy arrives in NYC, after almost missing her flight- as per usual.
July 15th- Amy, Cheri & Julia go out for drinks and a production meeting, and get really drunk talking about men and cause a ruckus. We totally fail to properly plan anything Hot Mess related.
July 19th- see DAY ONE
July 21st- Auditions: Amy is 45 mins late b/c she dropped her phone on the subway tracks. Our studio is super hot and sweaty we overheat a bunch of elderly woman and stunt men. We’re assholes.
July 24th- We illegally film in Central Park.It’s 97 degrees, and multiple assigned to sweat patrol to keep faces from melting off- Amy’s face in particular. It started to pour and we had no shelter. We needed a cab for a shot which we can’t get due to the rain.Stunt Guy offers his car instead of Cab, and then proceeds to dent his car filming shot for us. Oops, our bad. 7 hours later, at the end of the day we get an actor/relative stranger to flash his genitalia on the corner of 26th and 7th- and hide from police cars driving by. We did not warn our DP about this- we just threw him to the penis wolves. Go team!
July 31st- We film in a friend’s apartment and our lights melt their plastic light fixture. We were there to film a dog notorious for ceaselessly barking- and we can’t get her to bark. 
We try for an hour give up deciding to just “fix it in post” – which is what Amy says when she panics-even though she doesn’t really know what it means. Then Julia risks her life running across the Westside highway without shoes or a bra on. 
And Amy leaves Ken’s slate on the side of the Westside highway. Oops. After that we set up to film anther scene in a parking garage, and right when Amy’s calls “Action” the owner comes out and kicks us all off the premises for shooting without permission- even though we got it cleared through someone else. Rut-row. THEN We return to Westside highway to film another scene after dark – the slate is still there!!! Amy is saved! Julia makes out with hot guy on camera. End of day. Yea!
Aug 1st- We shoot at a restaurant downtown, but we only have permission from one owner. The other owner shows up and we have to create diversions to keep him off site. We hire inexperienced actresses to play strippers, and……… let’s just say it had it’s directorial challenges. Note my face in this pic. 
We set up to throw food at two actresses who did not fully read the script and freak out at the idea of being pelted with food. At that point I think we were 3 hours behind schedule. Very professional! Ken almost gets food on his camera- and is not happy. But we buy him thai food and loves us again! Yea!
Aug 4th – We cast a cop who the morning of the shoot- calls to tell us he lives in LA and submitted by mistake. WTF?!!! We hire a new cop who has no handcuffs with his uniform, so Amy runs to a sex shop to buy handcuffs on way. Livin’ the dream! Amy forgets to bring all scripts and call sheets to shoot and has to frantically run out to print some on the upper east side. No Kinkos anywhere!! Why god why!!! We start the day 90 mins behind schedule. Cop shows up and is injured and can’t do all the stunts- but he lets us drop a beer can on his head multiple time and for that we are grateful. We almost choke one the messes while trying to get her to spit up alkaseltzer. We need empty beer cans for shots- so Amy kept shot-gunning beers- much to her co-producers displeasure. We shot 12 pages in one day- and honestly it was so crazed- the rest is a blur.
Aug 5th After filming in the am, Cheri and Amy take a cab to location # 2 and leave our brand new boom mic in the cab. We realize this after we get to location # 2. We have to mic the rest of two episodes with the lav mics. We hide one inside and umbrella to work as a mini boom! MacGyver eat your hear out!
Aug 9th – We do a press photo shoot with the amazing Bill Wadman. Amy wanted all 7 messes in one shot- more people than he has ever had to fit in his tiny studio- and lets just say it was tight. Amy had blocked herself into such a painful difficult position with her legs, that a volunteer was assigned to to dab the sweat off her brow between shots- this was a person whom we just met. Always makes a good impression. Oh and the reason she couldn’t dab her own sweat was b/c she was wrapped up in caution tape. I think this behind the scenes video explains it all! Bill is amazing! Behind the Scenes of Hot Mess Photo Shoot
Oct 24th – Amy can’t make the shoot, b/c she is stuck in Denver- So she sends storyboards that look they were drawn by a 5 year old. 
Ken forgot the sound recorder, so Julia had to run out and rent one. Cheri almost contracted oral herpes from having to kiss a cold sore, turns out she didn’t. go team. Then one of our actresses was 2 hours late to a location we only had 3 hours at the first place! 
Another actress forgot to bring a thong for an important shot- so she had to run out and buy one.
Then another actress was wearing thong but needed to be in briefs for another shot- so again underwear had to be purchased. AND Ken almost dropped the camera in toilet.
But we ended the day and the season filming the parking garage scene that had gone to total shit 3 months before. We are in fact – ‘gonna make it after-allllll!!!!’
