Showtime’s Homeland was filmed in Charlotte but they moved to South Africa.
His time on the Iron Throne has passed, in favour of the pierced Gorgon.
And that’s because it was set there.
It’s really Vancouver where a lot of American shows are filmed these days, not England or the rest of Europe.
Of course the other thing with a show like GoT, aside from old looking locations, is that just about the entire cast is British. Now granted a lot of them likely live in the US, but I’m sure plenty of them still reside in the UK.
Chicken or egg, really.
Or Irish. Or continental European. The only Americans I can think of are Tyrion, Drogo, Oberyn*, and now Tyene, although I’m probably missing some.
*He was born in Chile, but moved to the US while young and normally has an rather American accent.
Noticing a trend. In terms of TV shows, they’re usually ‘epic-y’ type shows (Game of Thrones, Band of Brothers etc.), or in other words less TV show and more mini-movie. They’re also all shows whose shoots are primarily outdoors, and rural (European cities don’t look like NYC, Chicago or LA). I can’t think of any conventional, shoot-on-set type American TV shows that are made in foreign countries. The *X-Files *was shot in Canada I think (again, I believe for tax purposes).
A number of scenes from The Tudors were shot at the crenelated castle in my home town.
Outlander was shot in Scotland…