Quote: Leevil @ October 16 2008, 2:38 PM BSTSomeone has never been to Skegness.
Haha!
Where Shows Were Based Page 2
Blackadder Goes Forth and French Fields were set in France.
Quote: Curt @ October 16 2008, 2:33 PM BSTWhen I'm watching those shows my brain just defaults to London.
All British shows are in London.
LOL!
you have a point here.
Still Game is an obvious exception, and so is Father Ted.
Quote: WrongTale @ October 16 2008, 2:48 PM BSTLOL!
you have a point here.
I dunno. I was thinking about this when the thread was posted last night, and pretty much everything I could come up with WASN'T set in London.
Fawlty Towers, The Thin Blue Line, Open All Hours, Porridge, Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Terry And June (well, Greater London I guess), Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps, Coming Of Age, Billy Liar, Nearest And Dearest, The Vicar Of Dibley, The Growing Pains Of PC Penrose, The Magnificent Evans, Clarence, In Loving Memory, Hallelujah!, Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt, The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, Are You Being Served?, 'Allo 'Allo!, Keeping Up Appearances, Lab Rats, Grownups, Massive, George & Mildred, and so on and so forth.
I shall correct myself.
If it looks OBVIOUSLY not like London (Fawlty Towers, Dad's Army) my brain defaults to "Outside of London...you know...the country".
Everything else is London. 
Well...except Father Ted the accent reminds my brain that there are other parts like Ireland.
Have there ever been any shows set in Canada, Curt?
Corner Gas and Little Mosque are set in the Canadian Parries.
There are a lot set in Toronto...most are set in Toronto. Toronto is also used as a filming spot when American shows need a city that looks like New York but don't want to pay for it.
A lot are set in Northern Canada (with no fixed location..just basically a bunch of bushwackers like the Red Green Show).
Our shows don't make it out of our country very often, we have a very poor support system for Canadian made television.
Rising Damp's setting was purposly unknown although many assumed the Yorkshire area was the back drop, I think the writer said so.
Quote: Curt @ October 16 2008, 3:23 PM BSTCorner Gas and Little Mosque are set in the Canadian Parries.
There are a lot set in Toronto...most are set in Toronto. Toronto is also used as a filming spot when American shows need a city that looks like New York but don't want to pay for it.
A lot are set in Northern Canada (with no fixed location..just basically a bunch of bushwackers like the Red Green Show).
Our shows don't make it out of our country very often, we have a very poor support system for Canadian made television.
Is your television made up predominantly of American imports? Or largely your own stuff?
Quote: Curt @ October 16 2008, 3:23 PM BSTCorner Gas and Little Mosque are set in the Canadian Parries.
There are a lot set in Toronto...most are set in Toronto. Toronto is also used as a filming spot when American shows need a city that looks like New York but don't want to pay for it.
A lot are set in Northern Canada (with no fixed location..just basically a bunch of bushwackers like the Red Green Show).
Our shows don't make it out of our country very often, we have a very poor support system for Canadian made television.
There's the one about the schoolkids but I degrassi.
Quote: chipolata @ October 16 2008, 3:26 PM BSTIs your television made up predominantly of American imports? Or largely your own stuff?
Sadly it's mostly US with a light peppering of our own stuff that no one watches except maybe a hand full like Corner Gas and Little Mosque ...and if you want to count *shudder* "Canadian Idol" and "So you Think you Can Dance Canada".
Quote: Nigel Kelly @ October 16 2008, 3:26 PM BSTThere's the one about the schoolkids but I degrassi.
Degrassi was and is (there is a new version of the show that is pretty popular right now) set in Toronto.
Quote: Nigel Kelly @ October 16 2008, 3:26 PM BSTThere's the one about the schoolkids but I degrassi.
I hadn't noticed the pun. Well played Nigel Well played.
I don't get it. 
Am a 'tard.
(There was one about school kids called Degrassi Junior High.)