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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, in addition to the CanCon rules that artificially inflate the supply of local production, provincial governments subsidize the local industry to produce films by foreign studios. There are production crews that live permanently in Montreal and Toronto that regularly help produce films that are set in New York. In Nova Scotia, we have locals who help produce films that take place in rural or small town New England. There is almost always at least one film or TV show in production here that employs locals. But they are almost never set in Canada.
It's not an insignificant part of the economy. I know several people employed by the film industry, have been randomly asked to be an extra in an American TV show, and have multiple times randomly run into film or TV sets walking down the street.
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