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The upcoming NBC sitcom, The Office, based on the British sitcom of the same name, is set in Scranton. From what I’ve heard, there are some Scranton-specific references in the show, such as one of the characters went to Bishop O’Hara High School (next town over, but so what), ate lunch at so-and-so place, etc. Scranton is merely the setting, not the punchline, which is nice.
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I’ll try and complete the circle by saying I was born in Slough, England where the UK “The Office” was based. I don’t live there now though.
My hometown was the setting for the movie “In Country” starring Bruce Willis. Bobbie Ann Mason is from there, so she set her novel there and they came back to film it.
Lexington has appeared in a number of films and TV shows, the most notable being “Seabiscuit” (the racing scenes were all shot at Keeneland.)
Jodi Foster’s film Little Man Tate was shot in Cincinnati, although they don’t name it in the film. I used to live in the building where Harry Connick Jr.'s character resided - in fact, the front door of my old apartment is clearly visible in one shot. And my sister knew a couple of the local extras used in the movie. It’s amusing b/c there’s a guy in a green shirt sitting next to the little kid Tate in a couple of scenes - only if you look real closely, two different extras play that green-shirted guy. My sister knew both of them.
I am also a New Yorker. Plenty of shows to choose from there. I spent most of my youth in the suburbs, however. The closest town to my old digs leapt into the forefront American public consciousness due to the televisual feast that was The Facts of Life.
the miniseries of Stephen King’s “The Stand” had some scenes taking place in southern coastal Maine (York, Kittery, Eliot), in fact, the Nubble Lighthouse on Long Sands beach in York Beach was a prominent feature
Mama’s Family was set in Raytown, Missouri–which is a few minutes away from Kansas City (Missouri).
There was also a short-lived series, Back to Kansas, that was set somewhere vague in Kansas. It eventually changed its name to Married to the Kellys, but failed anyway.
I grew up in Colorado Springs, the setting of Stargate:SG-1 (kinda sorta, when they are on Earth) and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Stargate gets a lot of things wrong. A lot of time there will be dead-on accurate props on exterior shots (a newspaper vending machine carrying “The Gazette”, a police car which looks identical to the real CSPD cars), but they really can’t hide the fact that all their exteriors, except for the stock footage of the Cheyenne Mountain entrace, look entirely like British Columbia, and not a bit like Colorado. They did have a pretty egregious error in one episode when Carter claimed that Colorado Springs had no zoo. Not only is there one-- it is ON Cheyenne Mountain. But at least they try to get it right once in a while, unlike Dr. Quinn. *Dr. Quinn * portrayed Colo. Spgs. in the late 1800s as a typical dusty Western frontier town. Problem is, it never looked like that. The town’s founder, General Palmer, specifically founded and built the town because his English wife hated typical dusty western frontier towns so much that she wanted to go back to England. He tried to make it look as much like London as possible. She went back to England anyway-- there’s gratitude for you. I don’t understand why they set it in a real town if they were not going to use the historical details of the town. Why not just make up a town? It seems to be based on Doc Susie anyway, who wasn’t based in Colorado Springs.
Seconded. I live in an adjoining town, but I was born in Pt. Pleasant Hospital, went to grade school in Point, and spent a great deal of my time on Pt. Pleasant boardwalk years ago (or, at least the shore bars along that boardwalk).
Although for some reason, I can’t seem to find the lighthouse or cliffs featured on the show.
No, it was set in Beaver Falls. I was living there at the time, going to Geneva College. And the tv BF was nothing like the real one. (Big surprise there.) I think the only thing they got right was the name of the town. Driving times, local landmarks, even the high school’s colors were wrong.
ER must only do their location shooting in January, because from watching the show, one would get the impression that it snows eleven months a year here.
The Drew Carey Show was set in Cleveland. They filmed one of the opening sequences (before the big dance openers started) in town and I remember an episode where they were going to a Browns game, and filmed here. There are numerous references to Cleveland and its suburbs throughout the show.
The Canadian show Corner Gas is set in the fictional town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, but from time to time the characters go to Regina. The office tower I work in has showed up in a couple of episodes, as has Taylor Field.
But because they shoot in the summer, the episode where they all tried to go to Grey Cup just didn’t look right. I was at Taylor Field that day, and it was not, repeat not, shirt sleeve weather.
