TV shows that put your city on the map

[mrnyc]

speaking of memorable -- i liked homicide life on the streets for baltimore. the one where the person (vincent d'onofrio) was stuck on the subway tracks has haunted me ever since. good grief that was a nightmare of a tv show episode.

[Steely Dan]

when i think of Baltimore on TV, "The Wire" immediately jumps to the front of the line for me.

it's not just the greatest Baltimore TV show, it's straight-up one of the best TV shows ever, IMO.

[mrnyc]

well yeah definitely the wire as a show, but the older homicide: life on the street's 'subway' for a single episode.

[pdxtex]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

when i think of Baltimore on TV, "The Wire" immediately jumps to the front of the line for me.

it's not just the greatest Baltimore TV show, it's straight-up one of the best TV shows ever, IMO.

I think I've seen the entire series at least 4 times. What's your favorite season? I like the school one.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by pdxtex

I think I've seen the entire series at least 4 times. What's your favorite season? I like the school one.

1 & 4, i can't really put one of them over the other.

[(four 0 four)]

The others for Atlanta, both set and filmed here, I can think of in addition to 'Atlanta' are:

Dynasty (the CW reboot)
Walking Dead
Chrisley Knows Best
Love and Hip Hop
Real Housewives of Atlanta
Designing Women (set, not filmed but worthy of mention )
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Atlanta
The Resident

[pj3000]

Originally Posted by pdxtex

Miami is only ever going to be Miami Vice to me. Or maybe the golden girls!

Ha!... the Girls were technically Miami Beach (which is different world... especially back then), but could have been anywhere really. They show was rarely outside of their house.

Burn Notice is a pretty decent, more modern Miami Vice substitute. Very different show than Miami Vice, but also mainly filmed on location.

[Sigaven]

There was a kid's show years ago on Nickelodeon called Brothers Garcia. It's the only TV show I can think of that takes place in San Antonio.

[Northern Light]

Originally Posted by Crawford

What was the Toronto show with the vampire cop? Pretty sure it was on a U.S. network, not CBC.

I remember it from the mid-1990's, when I was in high school. It was one of the few shows set in Toronto that really screamed Toronto.

You mean Forever Knight



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Knight

[Chef]

Minneapolis is all about the Mary Tyler Moore show. There have been some others set here but MTM is the only one that was really embraced by the city.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by pdxtex

Real World even had a Portland season. Thats very bizarre to me. They may as well of had it in Ft Wayne. Im pretty sure that was end of our pop culture relevance. By the time Portlandia was halfway thru in 2014 hipsters were everywhere and Austin was already the new hotness.

Well... that tracks. They've done a Real World in nearly every large city in the West. They've also hit all the major metros in the northeast. But they've only used one city in the Midwest. Here's the breakdown by region:

Northeast (NYC, Boston, Phila., D.C.): 6
West: 14
Midwest (Chicago): 2
South (Atlanta, Austin, South Florida, New Orleans): 6
Abroad/territories: 5

[pdxtex]

Originally Posted by pj3000

Ha!... the Girls were technically Miami Beach (which is different world... especially back then), but could have been anywhere really. They show was rarely outside of their house.

Burn Notice is a pretty decent, more modern Miami Vice substitute. Very different show than Miami Vice, but also mainly filmed on location.

That wicker furniture tho. The real house isn't even in Florida too. Its in Brentwood in Los Angeles. Don't even look up the Ferris Bueller house unless you want to be disappointed. Its nowhere near Chicago!!

[pdxtex]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Well... that tracks. They've done a Real World in nearly every large city in the West. They've also hit all the major metros in the northeast. But they've only used one city in the Midwest. Here's the breakdown by region:

Northeast (NYC, Boston, Phila., D.C.): 6
West: 14
Midwest (Chicago): 2
South (Atlanta, Austin, South Florida, New Orleans): 6
Abroad/territories: 5

Its was bad timing too. Portland was in the recession and had nearly 10 percent unemployment. Goofy kids having fun in a loft seemed at odds with the city at that time especially. I did see them filming a scene once tho, two of them were on a date walking thru Chinatown??? Dont step on the hobo.

[Steely Dan]

i was out at a bucktown bar with some friends back in the early 2000s when the first chicago real world season was being filmed. some of the cast members and camera crew came into the bar to shoot a "night out on the town" scene.

other patrons in the bar were NOT having it. they kept getting heckled and having shit like ice cubes flung at them until they finally left visibly upset after about 15 minutes, at which point everyone in the bar cheered their exit.

it was a very strange scene.

[MAC123]

Sounds like some pretty terrible patrons

[Labtec]

Originally Posted by (four 0 four)

The others for Atlanta, both set and filmed here, I can think of in addition to 'Atlanta' are:

Dynasty (the CW reboot)
Walking Dead
Chrisley Knows Best
Love and Hip Hop
Real Housewives of Atlanta
Designing Women (set, not filmed but worthy of mention )
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Atlanta
The Resident

Matlock
Dukes of Hazzard
Stranger Things was filmed all over Atlanta but I don't think it's based here.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by MAC123

Sounds like some pretty terrible patrons

yeah, it was a pretty damn hipsterish place (the old gen X version of it, anyway, angrier and way more cynical) with lots of "too cool for school" folks who wanted absolutely nothing to do with anything as mainstream and stupid as "the real world" or "MTV".

besides, this was like in 2002 or something, and by then the whole "real world" thing was already over a decade old and pretty damn played out.

also, pretty much everyone in there was completely shit-faced.... it was saturday night, after all....



hard to imagine that was 20 years ago now. where does the time go?

[Razor]

Miami - Dexter
Now some fictional place in Upstate New York - Dexter re-boot

Dartmouth (I think) - Trailer Park Boys

[Gresto]

Another Toronto show that I think hasn't gotten a mention yet is "Night Heat", a pretty decent cop show from the '80s. Also, "Private Eyes", which I believe is still being produced.

[pdxtex]

Originally Posted by Razor

Miami - Dexter
Now some fictional place in Upstate New York - Dexter re-boot

Dartmouth (I think) - Trailer Park Boys

Tpb = Halifax. Gotta get them donnairs.