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Television shows filmed in Los Angeles

  • Mad MenHBO passed on Mad Men, and its CEO later called that his biggest regret. AMC made it its first original series.
  • True BloodAlan Ball found True Blood's source novel by accident. He wandered into a bookstore before a dental appointment.
  • Twin PeaksSheryl Lee was hired to play Twin Peaks' dead girl, Laura Palmer. Lynch saw her in a picnic scene and kept her on.
  • FrasierFrasier was first pitched as a show about a paraplegic publisher. Paramount pushed for a Frasier Crane spin-off instead.
  • The MandalorianThe Mandalorian filmed inside a room of LED screens that showed digital landscapes.
  • Street Fighter (TV series)In the Street Fighter cartoon, Ken Masters is a con-man more interested in getting rich than fighting.
  • Game of ThronesHBO made the Game of Thrones pilot redo about 90 percent of its footage. The re-shoot changed cast and directors.
  • American BandstandDick Clark pitched a Philadelphia dance show to ABC in 1957, and it went national.
  • Fallout (American TV series)The television series Fallout opens with a young woman named Lucy leaving Vault 33 to search for her kidnapped father. Amazon Prime Video released it as a drama based on the role-playing video game franchise created by Tim Cain and Leonard…
  • The Book of Boba FettLucasfilm hired a YouTube deepfake expert to improve Luke Skywalker in The Book of Boba Fett.
  • Euphoria (American TV series)Euphoria, the HBO drama created by Sam Levinson, began with an instruction in June 2017. Levinson had been invited to meet Francesca Orsi, HBO's head of drama, about adapting an Israeli series. The two ended up talking about life and the…
  • The PittThe Pitt is an American medical drama that squeezes an entire season into one twelve-hour shift in a hospital emergency room. The fictional setting is the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, and its emergency department goes by the nickname…
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi (miniseries)Ewan McGregor spent four years lying about a Kenobi project. He admitted it at Disney's D23 event in August 2019.
  • Star Wars: Skeleton CrewStar Wars: Skeleton Crew was pitched as a series inspired by The Goonies. Jon Watts first imagined it as a film.

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