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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?
In Canada, it effectively still is usually major American cities because all of our best talent goes to the US and Americans don't make shows that take place in Canada, with few exceptions. We do have Canadian content rules that force a certain amount of content that is set in Canada to be produced for Canadian audiences, but it's generally bad, so people don't watch it much. We mostly watch American content, which features a lot of Canadian actors and writers, and much of it is shot in Canada, but they never portray Canada. The setting is always in the US. For example, my home province of Nova Scotia often shows up in shows set in Maine (e.g. Haven, the Sinner, the Lighthouse), but almost nothing set in Nova Scotia is ever produced.
So, I watch so little content that is actually set in Canada that I couldn't tell you where in the country it is usually set. It's probably Toronto though. Quebec has its own media world with stars that are very well known to French Canadians that I, as an anglophone, would have never heard of. So, their default locations may be Montreal or Quebec I guess, but I really have no idea.
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