A Los Angeles-based production company is asking the City Council permission to film scenes at various locations around the city, including the Clarke Cooke House, Gurney's Newport Resort & Marina, the Cliff Walk and Fort Adams State Park.

NEWPORT — Reality television dating game "The Bachelorette" is planning to film some of its 2019 series at multiple locations around the city from March 21-31.

NZK Productions, the Los Angeles company behind the long-running reality series, is requesting permission to film from the City Council.

In the show, the bachelorette, her bachelor suitors and other cast members will stop at the Black Pearl and the Clarke Cooke House and walk around Bannister’s Wharf and nearby streets, according to the letter to the council, which is on Wednesday's agenda.

People will be eating and having a drink at one of the bars in the Clarke Cooke House, the letter says.

Filming on Newport Harbor will take place around Gurney's Newport Resort & Marina, the interior of Belle Mer on Goat Island and on Narragansett Bay, the letter says. Other city film locations include the Cliff Walk, Fort Adams State Park and Toppa Field, as well as possibilities like the White Horse Tavern and Belcourt Castle.

The production company wants to use the Jane Pickens Theater for a "musical performance/private concert."

Each season of the show usually starts with the bachelorette standing in front of a mansion and greeting each of the 25 to 30 bachelor suitors with a rose as they get out of a limo. But at least one contestant does not receive a rose and goes home. The pool of contenders shrinks as the season progresses with multiple rose giveaways. The bachelorette has to decide between her two favorites in a final rose ceremony.

The production company is considering other opulent residences for sets besides Belcourt Castle. They include Eisenhower House at Fort Adams and the Carey Mansion in Newport, but also Linden Place or Blithewold in Bristol and the Lippitt House in Providence.

“All locations will be private for our filming,” the letter to city councilors says. “We will provide security when needed depending on the location and event. All details with dates, times and crew sizes have been submitted to the Rhode Island Film Commission, city and state officials.”

"The Bachelorette" is a spin-off of "The Bachelor," a program that began airing on ABC in 2002. All previous 14 seasons of "The Bachelorette" have ended with a finalist bachelor proposal, which the bachelorette either accepted or declined. There have been three marriages of show bachelorettes with winning bachelors.

Newport has been chosen as the setting for the drama over serious competition from around the world. Episodes have been filmed throughout the U.S, Canada, Spain, Iceland, Turkey, Portugal, Thailand, Hong Kong, Bermuda, England, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and Ireland, according to ABC.

The production company provides a lot of details on scenes it wants for so-called “B-rolls,” which in television productions are supplemental or alternative footage inter-cut with the main footage.

Included is a sunrise and signage from Gurney’s, as well as a time lapse of sunset over the hotel. There will be people walking through the hotel’s front doors and through the lobby. More general B-roll scenes will include people walking on area beaches, waves hitting the sand, surfers and paddle boarders in the water, and yachts in the harbor.

The Pell Bridge will have an “establishing shot,” and cars will be seen driving over the bridge. There will be a shot of the bridge lit up at night. The company also wants shots of people walking and riding bikes on the Cliff Walk, and sweeps of the mansions along the ocean trail and views from the cliffs.

The company is seeking scenes of fishermen pulling out lobster traps and doing other work on the boats. Finally, there will be scenes of shoppers on the downtown streets, as well as people eating and ordering drinks in restaurants and enjoying the night life.

The letter to the City Council does not reveal who the 2019 bachelorette will be, but entertainment websites are rife with speculation.

“The people really want Khloé Kardashian,” says one website. “The Bachelorette seems like the logical next step for the reality star.”

sflynn@newportri.com