Hollywood can’t seem to imagine anything outside New York and Los Angeles.
Zooey Deschanel plays L.A. resident Jess Day on New Girl.
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In an informal survey of 1,626 scripted shows that aired on broadcast and cable television between 1970 and 2014, BuzzFeed found that at least 253 of them — or 32% — were set in New York and 270 in Los Angeles. (Of the original 1,725 shows, 99 were disqualified for various reasons, including being set on a moving train and being set in space.) Although New York and Los Angeles are the two most populous cities in the country, they contain only 4% of the country's population.
At least 82 scripted series during that 44-year period were set in Chicago, 50 in Washington, D.C., and 59 in San Francisco. Although Houston is more than two and a half times as populous as San Francisco, it apparently has less than 1/10th the amount of scripted shows set there.
San Antonio, Texas, the seventh largest city in the country by population, seems to have had approximately one show set in it — 2014's Killer Women. San Jose, Calif., the 10th largest city in the country, has apparently never had a series for adults set there. Fawna Ferguson of San Jose's Office of Cultural Affairs could recall only one series set in San Jose — Buckaroo 500, a children's show which was filmed in the 1960s.
According to TV, these are the only places that matter.
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Pretty bleak. According to Nielsen, the South “spends the most time watching TV” — TV that by and large doesn't show the South. (Clearly, there are exceptions. New Orleans, for one, is getting more narrative airtime as of late.)
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