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Thursday, 3 October 2013

List of television shows set in Los Angeles

This is a list of television shows set in the Greater Los Angeles Area (including Los Angeles and Orange County communities such as Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Malibu, and Newport Beach). The fact that many American television shows are made at Hollywood studios means that the Greater Los Angeles area is often the cheapest and most convenient location in which to set a program (series filmed entirely inside a studio excepted).

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  • Knots Landing (set in fictitious town of the same name in Los Angeles County)

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  • Victorious (Fictional school of Hollywood Arts, LA)

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List of films set in Los Angeles

Below a list of films set in Los Angeles. The list is not complete, and also includes a number of movies which only have a tenuous connection to the city. For instance, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, which is set in San Dimas, a suburb that is over ten miles to the east of the city's boundaries. This may reflect a view held by many, that Los Angeles has no real boundaries and is not so much a city as a loosely defined collection of communities. The film Inception is set in locations all over the world, and mostly takes place in the imagination, but the ending is set in Los Angeles and so is included in the list. Other films have less to do with the physical city than with an imaginary or mythical Los Angeles. Bladerunner makes use of some LA locations, but is largely the invention of the film's makers. Chinatown was shot on many real LA locations, but the end result is a romantic evocation of the city which merges with our movie memories.

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1940s

Stanwyck and MacMurray of Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity

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The actual painted boulevard name was used as the opening titles of the classic film-noir drama, Sunset Boulevard

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Sugar Town (1999)

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Los Angeles destroyed on film