What are the laws in Ohio like? I seem to recall some talk about the search parties ranging further and further out, and the Ohio border’s only about 20 miles from Pittsburgh.
Hee Haw was produced in Nashville, and was probably more popular in southern markets than northern ones. Almost Live, a sketch comedy show produced and set in Seattle, never really caught on outside the Pacific NW despite a run on Comedy Central (The cable version dropped most of the local references and, unfortunately, most of the humor). Homicide: Life on the Streets was very popular in Baltimore (where it was set), but probably not much more than nationally.
The District was hugely unpopular in DC. Giving DC a white police chief showed a real tone deafness for the realities of DC politics (although they will have a white police chief shortly, it seemed far-fetched at the time). It stayed on for years, so I’m guessing it was well-received elsewhere.
I’d say Americans are trained pretty well to expect shows to be based in NYC and LA.
…as in Magnum, P.I., when he would drive that car from island to island and back again?
- Mork and Mindy* tried to do the Boulder in 1980 thing and did it pretty well, except for the lack of on-screen drug use--
I recall reading somewhere that The Wire is extremely popular in Baltimore with some local saying something along the lines of “the only difference between The Wire Baltimore and the real Baltimore is that in the real Baltimore everyone watches The Wire.”
Speaking of The District, it has an Irish cop with a Scottish accent.