Roughly Half of all Braves Baseball games happen in my hometown…
Same for Hawks Basketball, but I don’t think its a real winner for ratings. :o
We Used to have a show called “Thrashers Hockey”, But I think it got cancelled last season. :eek:
MTV had a show in the early 90s called Austin Stories. I great up there, but live in Dallas now so I watched it just to see if I could spot the location shots. I hear MTV is coming back to Austin to do a season of The Real World.
I used to live in Park Ridge Il. There were a few scenes in the Blues Brothers that were shot mere blocks from my old house. I still go to the gas station they get pulled over near and the mall they drive through used to be only a few blocks from my place.
If you’ve ever seen the British detective series Inspector Morse, it’s set and mainly set in my home town of Oxford. The strangest I ever saw on the show was Morse walking down an Oxford street, turn a corner and he came out in St. Albans, where my parents used to live. Must have been a very brisk 50-mile hike.
Cold Case takes place in Philly, I believe, and they actually shot a couple clips for the opening credits here. Everything else is shot in Vancouver or something.
The soon-to-be cancelled American Dreams (which my mother watches religiously) is based in Philly of eras past, also not filmed here. There was some mystery show a year or so ago that ran for one season, about a cab driver, which was partly filmed here, IIRC, and was cancelled. There was also some series that started this summer or something based in Philly, which was promptly cancelled.
I think there’s a trend there.
I live in a little town in North Carolina called Mayberry but of course no show has ever been set here. 
Seriously, I live in Cleveland and all we had was Drew Carey’s show, which has already been mentioned.
They’re talking about Bloomington, IN.
No TV shows, but two movies. Passionada was set in New Bedford, MA, where most of the filming was done. A couple of scenes, though, were shot just over the bridge in my hometown.
Then way, way back in 1920, the silent film Down to the Sea in Ships with Clara Bow was filmed here. One of the locations is a block away from my office.
Dave’s dad was the pediatrician for Andre Braugher’s children during their time in Baltimore.
Go Hoosiers!
OK, this one’s a stretch, but it was a real surprise. In Animal House, which was filmed in Eugene and Cottage Grove, Oregon, there is a scene in which Tom Hulce as Larry “Pinto” Kroger and Sarah Holcomb as Clorette DePasto vist the home of Faber College Prof. Dave Jennings (Donald Sutherland). There’s a short scene in the living room and then a scene in a bathroom where Sutherland shares a joint with the young couple, and in which the following classic interchange is included:
[Handed his first joint]
Pinto: I won’t go schizo, will I?
Jennings: It’s a distinct possibility.
The house in which that was filmed is a huge early-20th-Century fourplex a the corner of Sixth and Lawrence streets in Eugene. I used to live in the apartment immediately above that one; my brother and his wife used to live n the actual apartment where the filming took place.
I helped paint that bathroom. How much closer to immortality can one get?
I really did grow up in Mount Airy, NC. It’s Andy Griffith’s hometown, and the fictional Mayberry was loosely based on it. The town now has a thriving Mayberry-based tourism industry, but the truth is that Mount Airy isn’t actually very much like Mayberry, and really never was.
I live in the San Fernando Valley, setting for The Big Lebowski, Boogie Nights, and about eighten trazillion pornos.