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Sometimes I think about how it seems like when new TV shows are made, in America anyway, the default locations are always Los Angeles and New York. And as I understand it, the companies that make them are pretty much all based in those places.
Does it work this way in other countries? Are German television shows always based in Berlin, or in Munich? Are Italian shows always in Rome? Or do you also have studios operating out of Turin, Milan, and Florence?
It seems to me like making a television show is not such an expensive undertaking that you couldn't have more local or regional variants. Why do you not have, for instance, a Cleveland-based studio making Cleveland-set programming for the NE Ohio market? Is it not profitable? Has it been tried and failed? Is it happening and I just don't know about it?
Some of that has to do with cities that have specialized themselves, either intentionally or out of necessity, in streamlining the permit approval process that legitimate filming companies have to follow. IIRC, New York used to be famously difficult to work with and very little was filmed there for a long time, except guerilla-style.
Want to get a filming permit in L. A.? No problem, contact the department that handles that, fill out the clear application that anticipates your needs, have a decision relatively quickly. Other cities have no process, so prepare to start working individual bureaucrats none of whom want it to be their job.
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