The United States of TV - Neatorama

Andrew Shears created this US Map with a TV show to go with each state. It's good to see that TV sometimes happens outside of New York and California! Shears also explains why he choose each show. You can enlarge the picture at Thinking Pseudogeographically. Link -via The Daily What

The whole country should say "The Simpsons."

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I'd prefer Ohio's show to be "WKRP in Cincinnati" rather than a show about Cleveland.

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Gotta say HELL YEAH to Maggy's comment. WKRP always cracked me up.

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Breaking Bad > In Plain Sight.
However, both are filmed here. and I think BB captures NM better.

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For Washington state, I'd pick Twin Peaks over Fraiser; at least the former was actually filmed here.

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No "Hawaii Five-Oh"? No "Northern Exposure"?

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Oh, sorry, they're at the link. My bad.

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Hey! We also have Homicide!

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'Dukes of Hazzard' for Georgia, not 'Designing Women'?

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Obviously the guy only watches the History Channel.

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Fiction = fiction.

It's good that TV shows do try to choose other locales than NYC and LA, though.

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Louisiana should be "True Blood".

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I agree with the WKRP for Ohio. Being from Chicago tho, I think "Married with Children" would be a better choice than Roseanne.. DUH!!

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Evil Dead is a Tv show? not according to IMDB.com
The link's version of the map has Memphis Beat listed instead for Tennessee

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I guess someone pointed that out and it was changed since I snagged a picture.

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Think I'd go with Magnum PI over Hawaii Five-O

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I'm just glad Missouri didn't get stuck with Mama's Family. UGH.

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@sandyra - Agreed!

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