Compromise reached on logistics that include staged Carnival parade.

PROVINCETOWN — Visitors and residents around Provincetown can keep an eye out for TV cameras, and what might look like a corpse, shortly after Memorial Day.

Actors and crews for a crime drama set amid the Cape Cod opioid crisis are expected to start filming in town May 31, based on details of an agreement and schedule that Acting Town Manager David Gardner said should be finalized by the end of this week.

The Select Board on Monday gave unanimous support for Starz P-Town productions to film key location scenes for the eight-episode first season of “Hightown” for the pay-cable channel Starz, while directing Gardner to finish working out safety concerns and other logistics.

That vote “represents the town’s commitment to enter into an agreement,” Gardner said by email. “We are just figuring out the remaining details,” including trash collection, with the final plan expected to be close to the one presented to the board.

Starz officials could not be reached for comment on the deal. Gardner, though, said producers will pay $2,000 per day for use of the Provincetown land, as well as the costs of special police details and for other town employees and expenses.

Various people involved with the TV show are due to be in town for 15 days, using the parking lot at the former Veterans of Foreign Wars building on Jerome Smith Road as a staging area. Filming would take place only on seven weekdays between May 31 and June 10, according to a schedule that Starz officials provided to the town. Scenes would be shot along various parts of Commercial Street or an alley connected to it on most days, including shutting down the block of Commercial Street between Standish and Ryder streets between 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. June 4 for a fake Provincetown Carnival parade.

Other scenes would be shot at MacMillan Pier and Provincetown Marina Pier (May 31) and around the traffic rotary near the Provincetown Inn (June 5, 6 and 10). The beach near the rotary is where, in the series, a body is due to wash ashore and be discovered by a National Marine Fisheries Services officer — to be played by “Chicago Fire” star Monica Raymund — who becomes determined to solve the murder.

“Hightown” will be the most elaborate Hollywood filming in Provincetown since Norman Mailer’s “Tough Guys Don’t Dance” in the mid-1980s, and, according to board members, the first project of this magnitude to film in-season after Memorial Day. More than 125 people will come to town for the “Hightown” shoot, renting hotel rooms in a quieter period, and hiring more than 300 locals, according to a letter that Michael Kelley, a board member of the Provincetown Business Guild who has been involved in negotiations for the project, sent last week seeking business support.

Some Starz officials are expected to be in Provincetown next week, talking to business owners and working out individual agreements for compensation based on how their revenue might be affected by the filming, according to Colin Walsh, part of the Starz production team.

Because of how the vote at the special meeting progressed, no time was given this week for public comment, but board Chairwoman Cheryl Andrews has encouraged business owners and others to air any questions, concerns or support related to “Hightown” at the board’s regular meeting Monday.

The elaborate Carnival scene, with floats and hundreds of extras, had been a sticking point between Starz producers and town officials, especially Police Chief James Golden, when initial requests had been to shut down Commercial Street for a longer time. Multiple meetings and negotiations took place in the past couple of weeks to come to a compromise over that plan and other details.

Golden was still concerned about public safety and police staffing — especially for the Carnival scene — when asked about the situation at this week’s meeting. He mentioned the long hours officers would have to work during the overall filming and the lack of help available from other towns because of road projects going on elsewhere. Nonetheless, he said, “we’ll do what we do, and lean into it and make it work.”

Golden and Gardner, however, both said keeping the production team on schedule was a priority so resources would not be taxed even more.

“I guarantee you that I will be paying very close attention for any pre- or post-production shenanigans,” Golden told the Select Board, “and that if they operate outside of their permit, that’s going to be the end of their day.”

The majority of filming on “Hightown” started last month in New York City, including with co-star James Badge Dale (the movie “13 Hours”; TV’s “Rubicon” and “The Pacific”), as a state trooper assigned to the Cape Cod Drug Task Force. The series creator is Rebecca Cutter, a writer on TV’s “Gotham” who spent childhood summers at The Masthead Resort and was married at the Pilgrim Monument.

— Follow Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll on Twitter: @KathiSDCCT.