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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?
I have a friend who works full-time doing prop management for a TV series in New York. It seems they have a union and everything. Basically, there are multiple significant sub-industries around things like props, set selection and prep, casting and management of minor actors and extras, wardrobe and makeup, etc that are required to put on a good production. They mostly don't exist right now outside of current media centers, and it's an expensive pain to work without them, transport expertise in, or train up new crew, so not a lot of production happens outside of the established areas.
Though on the flip side to that, I believe the Breaking Bad franchise made some waves by doing most of their production work in Albuquerque.
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