That’s Providence; Mike Farrell plays a veterinarian.
“Family Guy” is set in Quahog, Rhode Island, but I believe that’s a fictional town.
And I really think that for this list to be authoritative, we should work from a population list that includes the cities’ MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area), i.e., their suburbs. Memphis is NOT bigger than Boston.
TNT.
The mini-series Kingpin, which was to have been followed up by a full season on NBC, was shot in and around El Paso, but I don’t know where it was actually set.
I was gonna say Rochester, N.Y., But Exapno beat me to it.
There have been several shows set in Boston, so that’s out.
How about Salt Lake City? I suspect they’re shying away from it to avoid offending the Mormons, and because they haven’t the slightest idea what to make of it. To quote somebody else (writing about a different place altogether), “there are no cultural warts onto which to hang a story”. (Come to think of it, you could say the same about Rochester. You’d have to tell people that Kodak and Bausch and Lomb are there, with Xerox just out of town, and even then they couldn’t relate.)
I think SLC would have been a winner except for Big Love, if HBO counts.
SLC is #124th in population. It’s not even in the running.
I thought Big Love was set outside SLC (Pepper Mill watches this – I don’t). You don’t have openly practicing polygamists in Salt Lake.
Salt Lake is just above Rochester (that is, 48th) in MSA population.
Thank you,thank you thank you,now I can get some sleep.