List of television shows set in Atlanta
Many television shows are filmed in Atlanta, set in Atlanta, or both:
Shot in metro Atlanta
- Tyler Perry Studios
- House of Payne is filmed in Atlanta, and involves fictional firefighters working for the Atlanta Fire Department
- Meet the Browns
- For Better or Worse
- Williams Street:
- numerous Adult Swim series have been produced in Atlanta
- several outdoor scenes have been shot in Atlanta, including live-action scenes for Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and other shows and promos
- Freaknik: The Musical
- Franklin & Bash
- Archer on FX
- Auction Kings is recorded at Gallery 63, located on Roswell Road (Georgia 9) in Sandy Springs near the Atlanta city limit
- Big Rich Atlanta on Style Network
- Devious Maids (set in Beverly Hills but filmed primarily at EUE Screen Gems in Atlanta)
- Don't Be Tardy
- Drop Dead Diva (set in Los Angeles but filmed around Peachtree City and Senoia)
- Family Feud 2011-2012 season was recorded at the Atlanta Civic Center (host Steve Harvey is a local resident) [1]
- The Game - shot in Atlanta since moving to BET for the 2011 season - as of January 2012 the highest-rated ad-supported sitcom ever on cable[2]
- Good Eats, hosted by local resident Alton Brown
- Halt and Catch Fire (set in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex but filmed in Atlanta)
- High Rise
- Let's Stay Together
- Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (series)
- Married to Medicine documents the wives of doctors in Atlanta
- Mean Girls 2 was filmed in Atlanta in July 2010
- The Mo'Nique Show is filmed in Atlanta
- Necessary Roughness (Set in Long Island but filmed in Atlanta, with football scenes filmed in the Georgia Dome)
- Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin - Saturday morning nature show with Jeff Corwin airing on ABC
- One Punk Under God (documentary)
- Property Virgins on HGTV, with host Egypt Sherrod of V-103 (earlier seasons were from HGTV Canada)
- The New Atlanta - an upcoming Bravo reality series set in Atlanta
- The Real Housewives of Atlanta (series)
- The Rickey Smiley Show on TV One
- Red Band Society on FOX
- Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta in Sandy Springs
- Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids
- Second Generation Wayans on BET
- Sharky's Machine was filmed around the Westin Peachtree Plaza and Hyatt Regency Atlanta hotels in downtown
- Teen Wolf on MTV
- T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle
- The Vampire Diaries and The Originals (TV series) previously The Dukes of Hazzard and In the Heat of the Night in Covington
- The Walking Dead is recorded in and around Atlanta
Individual episodes
- Baggage Battles "Atlanta" episode, regarding trucking freight rather than the baggage of the world's busiest airport
- Numerous episodes of HGTV shows are filmed in metro Atlanta.
Set but not shot in Atlanta
Several other TV series have been set (but not necessarily shot) in Atlanta:
- Designing Women
- Futurama episode "The Deep South" centers on the lost city of Atlanta, with several local references
- Matlock (1986-1995/1997)
- Profiler
- The Royal Family
- Cavemen was originally to be set in Atlanta but was changed to San Diego prior to production
References
- ^ Rodney Ho (2011-06-16). "Want to be in the audience or on 'Family Feud' at the Atlanta Civic Center? | Radio & TV Talk". Blogs.ajc.com. Retrieved 2012-01-08.
- ^ "The Game returns huge for BET with 7.7 million viewers", TV by the Numbers