Officials take hands-off approach to show's content.

PROVINCETOWN — The Select Board has authorized the town manager to draw up an agreement for a TV shoot in town later this month. In the process, the board declined to get into the business of policing the production's content.

The board authorized Town Manager Robin Craver to work with 20th Century Fox, which plans to shoot in several locations around town as part of a Ryan Murphy production.

Murphy is one of the co-creators behind such shows as "Glee" and "American Horror Story."

Details of the show are still under wraps, but it increasingly appears that the shoot could be for the 10th season of "American Horror Story."

This week, Murphy posted a picture on Instagram showing a set of hands clinging to the top of a dune with "American Horror Story 10" in the background. The caption for the post read, “Things are beginning to wash up on shore ...”

Murphy previously had posted the show's cast announcement with a video of a gloomy beach.

The application to film submitted to the town did not include the name of the production but did say the company wanted to be in Provincetown from March 23 to April 17, with filming taking place from March 30 to April 12.

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Things are beginning to wash up on shore...

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Before giving Craver the go-ahead to work out a deal with the production company, Select Board member Louise Venden said she thought the town should be informed of what the production was about.

“I do think that we need to have some idea of what the nature of this television shoot is in terms of what type of television program or series it will be used for,” she said. “People will ask, and I think it’s important for us to know.”

But the rest of the board did not seem to find that necessary.

“In terms of content, for me it’s the same thing if we were renting Town Hall. I don’t really like half the content that comes to Town Hall, but that’s not going to preclude me from allowing people to rent it,” board Chairman David Abramson said.

“I personally don’t think we should be in the business of deciding content,” board member Lise King said. “We are a creative town of creative people, and I think it’s kind of outside the ethos or the spirit of the town to start dictating content of creative endeavors.”

This is the town’s first venture under the board’s recently created filming policy, and Craver said some changes could be proposed after the interaction with 20th Century Fox.

The agreement for the application is still being worked on, according to town staff.

A representative for Disney, which owns 20th Century Fox, did not respond to a request for comment about the production.

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