Mount Maunganui is to serve as a backdrop in the popular television show The Almighty Johnsons.
The show's cast and crew were in Mount Maunganui shooting scenes for their latest series, yesterday.
The show is about main character Axl Johnson, who on his 21st birthday discovers his family members are
reincarnated Norse gods.
Emmett Skilton, who plays Axl in the TV3 series, was in Mount Maunganui yesterday morning with a film crew to shoot scenes for the upcoming third series, involving a road trip through parts of the North Island.
The scene involved fellow actor Matt Saville, who is a yet unnamed emerging character in the series, picking up Axl's cellphone from the sand dunes after Axl threw it away.