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One of the most famous examples of this is in ''[[Star Trek]]'' (and all subsequent series), in which every planet they land on looks exactly like the [[Kirk's Rock|deserts of southern California]] or the redwood forests of Northern California, or the mountains of California (assuming it isn't a studio cyclorama instead). Oh, and from time to time the script might call for a beach. Any ideas?
There is also [[Stargate City|Vancouver Doubling]] that is helpful with vast mountain forests, dry deserts and oceans nearby, Toronto has doubled for urban areas such as [[New York City]] and [[Chicago]] more times than it has actually represented itself, and Utah has been Vulcan, Mars, and the Old West.
The main reason is that a production crew not only includes a cameraman, director and actors; there are usually at least two or three dozen people working on prepping a location, providing the appropriate light and transporting the equipment to film a scene. Moving everyone, especially on a weekly television budget, is sometimes implausible even if said location is willing to permit filming. Other times, the actual location is not an option for security and or political reasons.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (film)|Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie]]'' was filmed entirely in Australia, though the series at the time was set in California.
* Averted in [[Dark City]]. The only real giveaway that the filming took place primarily in a studio near Sydney is the somewhat out of place Australian accent of a young police officer who talks to Detective Bumstead in one scene. Also, the director happens to be from Australia.
* Set in the universal American city, Metropolis, all of ''[[Superman (film)|Superman]] Returns'' was filmed in Australia. The Kansas scenes were filmed near Tamworth, a country town. At one point Bryan Singer was worried that the original Kansas farm scenes from the first movie were actually filmed in Kansas; he learned that Richard Donner filmed them in Alberta.
* In ''[[Knowing]]'', Melbourne serves as a stand-in for both [[Boston (useful notes)|Boston]] and parts of [[New York City]].
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* ''[[Cybergirl]]'' was set in a fictitious city named "River City", which was a very thinly-veiled version of Brisbane (the location of River City was never given).
* ''[[The Marine]]'' was mostly shot in Queensland, Australia but set in South Carolina.
* ''[[The Matrix]]''. The scene in which Neo says "I used to eat lunch there. Good noodles", the car is clearly driving through the Chinatown end of George street in Sydney's CBD. Of course, you also see the Sydney Tower and the Maritime Services Board control tower on the city's skyline.
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* ''[[Angel]]'' had a few episodes supposedly set in places like Rome and U.K. For the U.K. one, they went to a forested area of northern California but were still disappointed at how little it looked like the English countryside. Minutes before they were to film, however, a fog bank rolled in and gave the setting a much more UK feel.
* The fourth-season premiere of ''[[Bones]]'' was set and filmed in London. However, the show set in [[Washington DC]], with special locations such as Washington State, Las Vegas, and New Orleans, has NEVER left California to shoot any of those episodes. An episode set in Baltimore, complete with Baltimore accents ("Welcome to Bawlmer"), but the opening scene was clearly filmed at the Sepulveda Dam.
* ''[[Buck Rogers in The 25th Century]]'': 500 years in the future, Buck is supposed to be in New Chicago, but the background is downtown Los Angeles.
* ''[[Castle]]'' is set in New York. Only the pilot was actually filmed there. The episode set in Los Angeles takes advantage of that fact.
* ''[[Cold Case]]'' has occasional location shots in Philadelphia, but has many scenes clearly filmed in LA: the architecture that is supposedly "Germantown" or "the River Wards" has no business anywhere that gets harsh winters. The LA Metro has stood in for the Broad Street Subway at least once, as well. Any scene involving the cops standing outside their workplace is a bit strange since it's the same building that the FBI's LA bureau uses in ''[[Numb3rs]]'', shot from below the bridges.
* ''[[Combat]]''''!'', while set in WWII France, did most of its non-backlot shooting in Griffith Park, specifically Bronson Canyon.
** Some insert shots from a few season 4 episodes actually were shot around [http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/personnel/france.html Loire, France], but they're very much the exception.
* ''[[Community]]'' takes place in Colorado, which apparently has palm trees and a rather mild winter.
* ''[[Cougar Town]]'' is set in Florida. Some of suburban Florida superficially resembles the Southern California, but the palm trees are actually quite different. Remember, there are two mountain ranges, multiple river valleys, a few hundred miles of ocean, and a ''desert'' between Florida and LA.
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* ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' was set in [[Cleveland Rocks|Cleveland, Ohio]], but filmed in Burbank, California.
* A horrifying example of California Doubling in the United States was the short-lived Fox series, ''[[Drive]]''. The series started in Florida, going through Georgia, and through the desert of southern California every step of the way. Florida has no mountains, period, end of discussion.
* ''[[Firefly]]'' takes advantage of this phenomenon, as the show has a Western feel to it, so it is entirely appropriate for every outlying backwoods planet to look like Old West California.
** Despite the fact that it had a comparatively higher budget than the TV series, the movie sequel to it, ''[[Serenity]]'', nonetheless has a planet that, CGI aside, is represented by a local high school campus. The chase scene around the Companion Training House seems to have been similarly filmed in local woods, with the rest of the landscape around it having been filled in with CGI and basically all of the other settings being either soundstages, the Universal lot, or CGI.
* Assuming this is a good example of California Doubling, ''[[Fresno]],'' a miniseries that parodied ''[[Dallas]]'' and shows like it, was mostly filmed in Los Angeles, CA. The first 1 1/2 days, however, were spent filming in the actual city of Fresno. However, due to the extreme 100-degree heat, production moved 205 miles down south.
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* ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia|Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' has plenty of scenes (and brief introductory shots) from Philadelphia, including both well-known recognizable sights and neighborhoods that only a native would be able to distinguish from another city. But many of the interiors - and even the exterior of Paddy's Pub! - are filmed in soundstages in California.
* ''[[JAG]]'' A series about the Judge Advocate General Corp, takes place in the greater DC area, but most of the location shooting is done in LA. The episodes show the cast wearing proper seasonal uniforms (at the time of airing) and does a remarkable job at averting this trope. Most ship scenes are filmed aboard actual US Navy ships or museum ships.
* The more recent seasons of ''[[Leverage]]'' film in Portland, OR but are set in Boston.
* Particularly ridiculous in ''[[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House On the Prairie]]'' which is set in Minnesota, a state not exactly known for its mountains or its long stretches of lush green summery weather.
* The "Korean" setting of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'' is actually a section of Malibu Creek State Park in California, which was then the "Fox Ranch". Other scenes were shot in Griffith Park.
* In the original ''[[Mission Impossible]]'' it's astonishing how much of [[Cold War|Eastern Europe]] looks like LA and its environs, or how Soviet cars (namely the KGB use-only [http://www.oldrussiancars.com/archives/gaz-m-23 GAZ M23 Volga] and [http://www.oldrussiancars.com/archives/gaz-m13-chaika M13 Chaika]) look remarkably like [[The Taxi|civillian Checker A12 Marathons.]]
* ''[[Monk]]'' is set in San Francisco and filmed in Culver City. There are buses with the word CULVER written in five-foot-high orange letters that went through the end of the [[Cult]] episode. One episode has Monk wander his way to the train station after three nights of sleep deprivation. The station used for the shot was clearly the LA Union Station, leading the audience to wonder just how far Monk had wandered off.
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* ''[[NCIS]]'' is set in Washington DC and filmed in California. When they had to go to Arizona in an episode they were still in California, surrounded by the unmistakable rock formations near Simi Valley.
* ''[[The Office]]'' had one episode taking place in Winnipeg, but shot in California. In fact, while they have occasionally filmed exteriors for the U.S. version at real Scranton, Pennsylvania locations, most of the show is filmed near L.A.
* ''[[Pretty Little Liars]]'' is set in the fictional Pennsylvania town of Rosewood and filmed on location... in California. (Unlike many, many examples of this kind, this is actually mentioned on the show's end credits.)
* ''[[Roswell]]'' heavily featured [[Kirk's Rock]] for the wilderness scenes, while the town itself was actually Covina, CA.
* ''[[Silk Stalkings]]'' was set in Palm Beach, Florida, but filmed mostly in San Diego. See also [[The Mountains of Illinois]].
* As alluded to in the opening, it's pretty rare for ''Star Trek'' to shoot outside of California. All the TV shows have been filmed entirely in California and no ''Trek'' production has filmed outside the United States. Much like Vasquez Rocks, Griffith Park has been used many times as many planets over the years. Only five of the eleven films have filmed any scenes outside California. These are the only exceptions to California doubling in the entire series:
** ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'': Part of the Vulcan sequence was filmed at Yellowstone
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* ''[[The Boondock Saints]]'': Both films were made in Toronto, with the exception of overhead establishing shots in Boston. The CN Tower can be seen, as well as a Toronto Dominion bank.
* ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick-Ass]]'' had Hamilton double for New York. Badly (as many instances of Canadian road signs, flags and trademarks still appear often).
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** Stanton's speech and the {{spoiler|ensuing raid}} are all shot in various parts of the Royal York Hotel in Toronto; Victoria's limo even lets her out in front of Toronto's Union Station.
* ''[[Suck]]'', the vampire rock band road trip comedy had Toronto double for Buffalo, Chicago and New York.
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* As noted above, ''[[RoboCop]]: The Series'' and later, ''[[RoboCop]]: Prime Directives'' were set in Detroit like the movies they're based on, but were filmed in Toronto. Then again, none of the movies were actually filmed in Detroit, either.
* The American version of ''[[Skins]]'' was filmed in Toronto with the setting left ambiguous so American viewers could imagine it in their city. Unfortunately, they didn't bother to cover up some local signage on bus stops.
* ''[[Against the Wall]]'' The pilot opened with loads of footage of some of the most famous Chicago landmarks (with "Sweet Home Chicago" playing in the background). But once the music stopped, it quickly became clear that most of the show was filmed in Toronto (aside from occasional uses of stock footage). During the pilot, the crew took the trouble of replicating Chicago Tribune newspaper boxes but didn't bother to disguise the street signs. Streetcar tracks are visible in a few downtown scenes, and the 'L' train tracks are noticeably absent (save for aforementioned stock footage).
* Warehouse13 is filmed in Toronto and the surrounding area, and they barely attempt to hide it. In the 3rd season finale, there is a Valu-Mart which is supposed to be in Elk Ridge, South Dakota. Valu-Mart is a grocery store that doesn't exist outside of Canada, at all. Union Station in Toronto doubled for Geneva, Switzerland in the 2nd season premier as well.
** Not to mention the first season episode set in Chicago, even though streetcar tracks and a streetsign for York Avenue (neither of which exist in Chicago) are visible.
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** The Alternate Universe Fringe Division is based in the (very cool looking) Vancouver Public Library.
* ''[[Psych]]'' is filmed in parts of British Colubmia, including Vancouver, though the show is set in... southern California.
* ''[[Human Target]]'' is set in [[San Francisco]], but filmed in Vancouver. It's quite a good match in terms of terrain & climate, but still looks subtly off.
** Amusingly enough, In an episode where Chance must escort someone to Seattle, the Seattle scenes at the end look perfectly plausible because of the essentially identical landscape.
* The show ''[[Eureka]]'' takes place in the fictional town of Eureka (which is not the same as the actual city of Eureka, CA), but is filmed in a variety of locations outside Vancouver.
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** Vienna also doubled for Bratislava in ''[[The Living Daylights]]'' for much the same reason.
** Helsinki, Finland also has a reputation as standing in for Moscow in many American films, such as [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082979/ Reds] and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085615/ Gorky Park].
*** Sort of averted in ''[[Red Heat]]'' - Budapest (another one!) played Moscow for most of the movie, but the footage behind the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf_3QeDwDS0 opening (contains nudity and violence; credits start at 4:39)] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oYAuJlS-vM closing credits (from the 4:21 mark)] really was shot there.
** ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]'' was shot with different Spanish locations (especially in the province of Soria) standing for Siberia. Soria has also doubled as Cimmeria in the first ''[[Conan]]'' movie.
** The producers of ''Fiddler on the Roof'' scouted locations across Eastern Europe but finally settled on Yugoslavia (largely because they couldn't get permission to film in other countries.)
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* Parts of the Czech Republic and Poland often double for parts of Austria or Germany. They stick up German language street and shop signs.
** Prague and some other parts of the Czech Republic apparently also stood in for Paris and France in general in the 1998 version of ''[[Les Misérables]]'' with [[Liam Neeson]].
** The first two live action ''[[Chronicles of Narnia]]'' films were filmed in predominately Czech Republic and Poland, with some work being done in Slovenia and New Zealand as well.
** Nearly all scenes of ''Eurotrip'' were filmed in or near Prague. No scene was set in the Czech Republic itself, though Slovakia, which was unified with it as Czechoslovakia until 1993, is featured.
* [[Spaghetti Western|Spaghetti Westerns]] were filmed with a variety of European locations doubling for the American West. The semidesertic province of Almería in Spain, with its wide-open spaces that evoked an untamed frontier (and extras who could more or less pass for Mexican), was probably the most common.
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* Averted and played straight in ''[[The Mechanic]]''. Averted that some scenes were filmed on location in New Orleans. Played straight when New Orleans also happened to double for Chicago, Houston and Colombia.
* ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]'', set in Russia at the beginning of the Revolution, was filmed in Spain.
* ''[[Battle: Los Angeles]]'' was set in... well, look at the title, but was filmed in New Orleans.
* ''[[The Blind Side]]'' is set in Memphis, Tennessee but was filmed in [[Atlanta]], Georgia.
* ''[[Racing Stripes]]'' has South Africa playing Kentucky. (In the 1980s quite a few movies shot in South Africa omitted to mention this on the credits, [[The Apartheid Era|for obvious reasons]].)
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* Most of the exterior shots of the first [[Mortal Kombat]] movie were filmed in Thailand, and [[The Mountains of Illinois|it really shows]], particularly when it's doubling for China. [[wikipedia:List of Buddhist temples in Thailand|Thai Buddhist temples]] look ''waaaay'' different from [[wikipedia:List of Buddhist architecture in China#Buddhist temples|Chinese ones]].
* Several scenes in [[Home Alone|Home Alone 2]] that take place in New York were actually shot in Chicago.
* ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]''' final battle scenes set in New York were shot in Cleveland.
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** Ironically, in the third episode, Victorian Cardiff was California Doubled by Swansea, a smaller city nearby - this was due to Cardiff being heavily bombed in [[World War II]], so not many Victorian buildings survived.
** In ''The Vampires Of Venice'', the titular [[City of Canals]] was doubled by the Croatian city of Trogir.
* Cardiff also doubled for London in ''[[Sherlock]]'', which is also produced by BBC Wales.
* ''[[Lost]]'' features Hawaii Doubling, with the help of CGI backgrounds (primarily from Sydney, Korea, and London).
** Alan Dale's scenes in the season 4 finale were actually filmed in London. He was appearing in ''Spamalot'' at the time, so he couldn't make it to Hawaii. This was the first time the show filmed outside the US.
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* The 1989 TV series ''Doctor Doctor'' was supposedly set in Providence, Rhode Island, but was filmed in Denver, Colorado. This explains why you could occasionally see the Rocky Mountains in the background; the highest point in the actual state of Rhode Island is only 812 feet above sea level.
* The TV miniseries ''[[The Lost Room]]'' has a scene set in Las Vegas. In one take, an Albuquerque bus drives past; in another, the Sandia Mountains - what Albuquerque has instead of a skyline - are clearly visible.
* ''[[The Good Wife]]'' is set in Chicago and filmed in New York. It's hid pretty well by the fact that much of the filming is in done the outer boroughs. The writers clearly didn't do much research regarding Chicago geography, but that's a whole other trope.
** They did find out the executions of Death Row prisoners are often carried out in Indiana, though, because Terre Haute, IN has a Federal execution chamber, and so Death Penalty appeals lawyers pleading cases in Illinois are often from Indiana. That was a nice touch of Doing the Research.
* Due to the major German television broadcasters producing most of their stuff in Cologne, there is certainly much [[California Doubling|Cologne Doubling]] to be found in German tv. One show got caught red handed: While the dialogue established the scene to be in a different city, the cars had Cologne license plates.
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* ''Beaver Falls'' is about three British teenagers who get to work at the title summer camp in California. There are at least three real places in the US called Beaver Falls, exactly none of which are in California - and in the case of the camp, California was played by South Africa (and most of the "Americans," this being a British-Canadian-South African co-production, weren't played by actual Americans).
* The TV movie ''The Deadly Tower'', about the Charles Whitman snipings, was filmed in Louisiana because the University of Texas (where the killings took place) understandably wouldn't let production take place there.
* ''The Highwayman'' (a Glen A. Larson series) was set around America but filmed in Arizona; [[Monk|Lee]] [[Diagnosis: Murder|Goldberg]] wrote of the episode "Send in the Clones," "Phoenix badly, and obviously, stood in for New York locations (with [[The Mountains of Illinois|palm trees in Central Park!]]) in this sloppily shot [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot|pilot]]."
* The pilot for ''[[The Lying Game]]'' was filmed on location in New Mexico; production for the series shifted to Texas. The series is set mainly in Phoenix and Las Vegas (with stops in Los Angeles).
* The ''[[Girls (TV series)|Girls]]'' episode "The Return" has Hannah go back to her family in what purports to be East Lansing, [[Michigan]]. It appears to be one of the more suburban areas around [[New York City]]; it certainly looks like nothing like East Lansing.
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** Although some of the Georgetown scenes were filmed in Brooklyn.
* Averted in the 1960s film ''[[The Great Escape]]'' after they initially tried to plan filming in California. After being frustrated finding remotely acceptable grove of appropriate-looking trees (let alone appropriate-looking forests), they decided to film the entire movie in Germany because "Germany looks like Germany," resulting in a film with visuals so rich it at times bordered on [[Scenery Porn]].
* Averted in ''The Jackal'', which had an extended portion filmed, and somewhat arbitrarily set, in Montreal. However, in the climactic chase scene at the end, the Montreal metro stood in for the Washington metro.
* ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' has scenes set at the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt. It is the first production in decades to get permission to actually film on-site, thanks to the official in charge of that decision being a fan of the series.
** ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'' filmed it's climactic battle in Chicago and they actually had entire portions of Chicago blocked off for filming.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Sort of averted in the ''[[Law and Order]]'' franchise, all of which are set in and filmed in New York City (and recently [[Law & Order: LA|Los Angeles]]). Many of the outdoor scenes are actually shot at or near the supposed location shown in the card. Exceptions (supposed criminal hangouts like whorehouses and drug dens) are given fake addresses. At one point the actors for the main ''Law & Order'' actually took a pay cut in order to keep the show filming in New York City.
** In some cases, things were filmed in New Jersey like some scenes at a train station that were actually filmed in Hoboken. After 9-11 some exteriors were filmed in Downtown Brooklyn filling in for the court and government buildings in Lower Manhattan which were inaccessible.
* ''[[The Wire]]'' was actually filmed in Baltimore, but used different sections of East Baltimore exclusively (obvious non-inclusions would be when they needed to film the ports or other locales not found in the inner city).
** Most of the high-rise housing projects in which the Barksdale crew operates in the early seasons were actually torn down before the start of the series (this is eventually shown in Season 3). During the first season digital fakery is used to put some high rises up in the background of scenes set in The Pit.
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* ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' moves out to Philadelphia to film every season.
** However, see under the California heading - a lot of the interiors and some exteriors are filmed in California.
* ''[[Without a Trace]]'' set and filmed parts of one episode in Tokyo. Anthony LaPaglia was heading to Japan to watch an Australian soccer team he co-owns participate in a tournament, so he suggested filming an episode there at the same time.
* ''[[Burn Notice]]'' is set in Miami and filmed in Miami. [[Scenery Porn|They do everything they can to remind us of that]]. They often use the Miami area to double for various other locales, including West Africa in the pilot using careful camera shots and an orange "heat" filter.
* ''The Streets of San Francisco'' was set and filmed in that city, and [[Scenery Porn|the opening credits did everything they could to remind us of ''that'']].
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** The fictional 55th precinct on the show was supposedly "uptown" Manhattan, but they filmed extensively in the outer boroughs with the exteriors for the firehouse and precinct house being in Long Island City, Queens.
* ''[[Forever Knight]]'' was both shot and set in Toronto.
* ''[[The Sopranos]]'' was set and filmed mostly in New Jersey. According to the creator, when he was trying to pitch the show to networks, various executives would often lose interest when he said that he wanted it filmed in New Jersey. He was later contacted by a producer from HBO, who was interested in the show specifically because the creator wanted it set in Jersey.
* Averted in ''Flashpoint'' which is set, for once in a generic ''Canadian'' city. Although all the Toronto scenery and extras wearing Toronto police uniforms and driving Toronto police cars and Toronto EMT vehicles and reading a fictional newspaper called the ''Toronto Interpreter'' sort of ruin the whole "generic" bit.
* ''[[30 Rock]]'' averts this in that it is both set and filmed in New York City. However, anytime a scene is set somewhere else, it is, of course, doubled by a New York location. In the [[Pilot]], there is a flashback of Tracy running down a California freeway on which all the cars have New Jersey plates. The first [[Season Finale]] rather pathetically tries to pass off an obviously suburban neighborhood as a hillbilly town.
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* ''[[Sons of Anarchy]]'' is filmed in central California, and actually takes place there.
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' is set in Newport Beach and Balboa Island, but is filmed primarily in Culver City and Marina del Rey. The use of Culver Ciy locations that are less frequently used in other shows and their similar geography (both in Southern California, in neighbouring counties) make for some fairly effective doubling, only appearing especially jarring to some Newport Beach natives.
* Averted on the 60s spy show ''[[I Spy]]'' which actually filmed the real locations an episode was set in: Hong Kong, Rome, Greece, Mexico, etc (although studio work was also done in Hollywood).
* Both ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' and ''The Cosby Mysteries'' were set and filmed in New York ([[Bill Cosby]] hates working in Hollywood).
* Lampshaded fictional aversion in ''[[Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip]]''. In the pilot episode Danny fails a drug test and cannot make a movie in California, and Matt suggests filming in Vancouver. Danny refuses, saying that "Vancouver doesn't look like anything, it doesn't even look like Vancouver. It looks like Boston, California."
* The Fox cop series ''[[The Good Guys]]'' is both set and filmed in Dallas, also using local talent in small roles.
* The UK/Canada co-production [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1105836/ Burn Up]. Filmed on-location in Calgary and London - and actually set in both cities. "[http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/reallife/greenguide/story.html?id=d213ebcd-6192-49a3-a6c6-1b25dc82e36b While filming in the city is hardly unique, it's rare for a high-profile project to feature Calgary as Calgary]."
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* Exteriors for ''[[Father Ted]]'' were shot in Ireland. (However, the studio interiors - and audience - were in London).
* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' is the master... er, mistress of averting this trope; the series is set and filmed in New York, the episode/backdoor pilot "Valley Girls," mostly set in LA, was actually filmed in LA, and when [[Fan Service|Serena van der Fanservice]] and Co. went to Paris those episodes were also filmed in the City of Lights. Miss van der Fanser-''Woodsen'' spends the end of season four and beginning of season five in La-La Land, and her storyline's filmed there as well.
* ''The Beast'' and ''[[The Chicago Code]]'' were both set and filmed in Chicago. The former used some of the lesser-known Chicago landmarks to interesting effect, and both took full advantage of the 'L' train tracks that run through downtown.
* The [[Lifetime Original Movie]] ''[[Amanda Knox: Murder On Trial in Italy]]'' subverts this trope; the movie was filmed in Italy, but had Rome doubling as Perugia (where the murder of Meredith Kercher took place - the producers were denied permission to shoot in the actual town [[Captain Obvious|for obvious reasons]]).
* The [[Disney]] [[Made for TV Movie]] of ''[[Lemonade Mouth]]'' was filmed in Albuquerque, and the setting was [[Adaptation Displacement|changed to that]] from the book's [[Hollywood New England|Rhode Island]], complete with the [[High School]]'s name being changed from "Opaquansett" to "Mesa".
* The Paris half of ''[[Highlander the Series]]'' was filmed in and set in Paris.
* The scenes in the pilot for ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' that were set in New Mexico were actually filmed in New Mexico. The rest of the series was set and filmed in [[Los Angeles]].
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