Cameras are set to roll this week on the first of two “Real Housewives”-style shows set in Sin City’s eclectic mobile home communities.
“Trailer Park Girlz” -- which is still being shopped to networks -- follows the daily drama of six women who all move in to one of the city’s 100-plus mobile villages.
Think “The Real World: Double Wide.”
“It’s all about transitioning life to the trailer park and dealing with each other as neighbors,” producer and former “All My Children” actor Matt Borlenghi tells The Post. “It’s the white trash ‘Jersey Shore’!”
MOVE OVER, KARDASHIANS: Two series about trailer parks are being shopped to the networks.
“We also have these two Cajun sisters from Louisiana who regularly get into fistfights with each other,” he says. “They showed up for the casting session, and one had a black eye!”
“This is a show that will be a lot more relatable to people living in the middle of the country than the Beverly Hills housewives.”
With the US economy in recession -- and the Kardashian lifestyle looking more unobtainable -- creators of a competing show called “Trailer Park Housewives” also hope to cash in on less opulent TV personalities.
“If you just have shows about how great people have it, it is kind of depressing,” producer Marklen Kennedy says.
“How does your normal viewer, who just worked a nine-to-five job, come home and kick off his shoes and want to watch something that is just completely out of reach?”
Kennedy, who also created the Showtime series “Gigolos,” says his show will be less like “Jerry Springer” and feature women living in different mobile communities across Las Vegas -- with a common denominator tying them all together.
“The biggest thing for us is we didn’t want to make fun of anybody,” he says.
“There is kind of a stigma around the phrase ‘trailer park.’ People assume it is going to be very redneck -- aunt grandma and an uncle dad.”
Kennedy -- who claims to already have several networks interested in the concept -- says he was surprised by the diversity of the women who showed up at recent casting calls.
“We found some people who come from extremely wealthy backgrounds who were living in mansions, made some bad decisions and, as with a lot of Americans, their net worth started to crumble,” he says.
“There are a lot of people living within them that never thought they would be there. They have to make the best of their situation.”
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