What’s your favourite American TV series. 24? Grey’s Anatomy? C.S.I.? Ugly Betty? Heros? Law and Order?

These big budget series set in various American cities love getting out to shoot glorious exterior footage of the characters out and about in their locale.

Except they never actually leave the studio back lot in Los Angeles. Those wide sweeping New York shots in Heros and Ugly Betty? It’s all a green screen effect shot in a glorified parking lot out West.

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