On Dec 14, 12:00 pm, Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > I always enjoy how poorly shows hide the fact that they aren't shot abroad > and are busy trying to fake it. > > Lost does a bad job of hiding Hawaii in its non-island segments, although > there was one sequence shot in the UK when they needed Alan Dale who was on > stage in London at the time and otherwise unavailable. > > The only other recent show I can recall obviously filming elsewhere, aside > from those brief bits in CSI when they actually go to the city they proclaim > to be set in, is an episode of Bones set in London. It was pretty dire, but > clearly shot here. > > I guess Alias would be the modern day equivalent of I Spy in its > globe-trotting ambitions without ever traveling more than a few miles from > Burbank or wherever. At least they managed to avoid the real sin of using > ancient, but otherwise cheap, stock footage to scene set. If it's a western > European city that you're supposed to be in, but all the cars look like > they're from the mid-eighties, then that's as bad as those old Tarzen films > that spliced in various nature scenes into them. > > As well as I Spy, there was a period in the seventies when international > co-productions meant plenty of location shoots: The Persuaders with Roger > Moore and Tony Curtis was shot all over southern Europe; The New Avengers > was shot in the UK, and, er, Canada; and The Return of the Saint also filmed > across Europe. > > I guess that squeezed budgets have probably stopped this kind of thing > beyond factual programmes. Although in the UK there's still plenty of moving > around for budgetry purposes: Robin Hood was shot in Hungary; and Merlin > (which may not be troubling the NBC schedules anytime soon, but has just > been recommissioned for a third season) is partly shot in France.
And I thought a good portion of the short-lived (and dumped in the summer by NBC) "The Philanthropist" was shot in the countries the globetrotting title character went to, but Wiki says it was mostly shot in South Africa (including Jesse Martin and Neve Campbell's integrated Bing ads). -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
