MSN: 'United States of TV'

[easttxtv]

http://tv.msn.com/summer-tv-guide/united-states-of-tv/photo-gallery/feature/?photoidx=1

They picked (I didn't!!) 1 show to represent each state....
(I said, while slowly hiding under my desk now 8) )

AL: Big Shrimpin'
AK: Deadliest Catch
AZ: Medium
AR: 19 Kids and Counting
CA: Californication
CO: Community
CT: Gilmore Girls
DE: The Pretender
FL: Nip/Tuck
GA: The Walking Dead
HI: Hawaii Five-O (current version)
ID: Napoleon Dynamite
IL: ER
IN: Parks and Recreation
IA: American Pickers
KS: Jericho
KY: Justified
LA: True Blood
ME: Once Upon a Time
MD: The Wire
MA: Dawson's Creek
MI: Hung
MN: Coach
MS: In the Heat of the Night
MO: Grace Under Fire
MT: Buckskin
NE: The Young Riders
NV: Reno 911!
NH: The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire
NJ: The Sopranos
NM: Breaking Bad
NY: Girls
NC: Eastbound & Down
ND: My Secret Identity
OH: Glee
OK: Saving Grace
OR: Portlandia
PA: The Office
RI: Family Guy
SC: Army Wives
SD: Deadwood
TN: Nashville
TX: Friday Night Lights
UT: Big Love
VT: Newhart
VA: Homeland
WA: Grey's Anatomy
WV: Coal
WI: Picket Fences
WY: Longmire

 

[ansky212]

Out of all the shows they could have selected for NY, they picked 'Girls'? Is that the HBO show? I would have thought Seinfeld or countless other shows...

 

[Darth_vader]

"Gray's Anatomy"? They've never heard of "Twin Peaks", have they?

At least they managed to get Oregon's selection right, but then it was pretty obvious to begin with. Sad thing is, as ridiculous and surreal the programme's events appear, the way Portland is depicted in that programme is more or less the way real life is there. Pretty sad and frightening, too.

 

[CrankyYankee]

I would have chosen "Northern Exposure" for Alaska...

 

[Mr Tony]

Mary Tyler Moore for MN
Pawn Stars for NV

 

[anotherguyTN]

The Andy Griffith Show would have been better for NC, but it looks like they only went with shows from the 80's or newer, which makes you wonder about the age of the author of this article. ???

 

[ajc_trw]

Californication is a good show, but others on my CA list include

90210
Melrose Place
Arrested Development

Not just because they take place here (where I am in Callie) but because they are Califlavored!

BTW spent nearly my entire adult life in SoCal so I know the taste of the Golden State. I lived in the Delaware Valley as a kid and just recently so I know how the golden state tastes and these shows do represent. 8)

 

[WMC2006]

I live in Massachusetts. They chose Dawson's Creek?? I just checked Wikipedia and found that DC was set in Massachusetts, didn't know that, never watched it. On the other hand, the one thing I DID know about DC was that it was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. I lived there in 1999 and 2000.

For Massachusetts, if you want to go with shows from the 80s and beyond, I'd choose Spenser: For Hire, The Practice, or Boston Legal for starters.

 

[dhett]

The Andy Griffith Show would have been better for NC, but it looks like they only went with shows from the 80's or newer, which makes you wonder about the age of the author of this article. ???

Agreed. I also noticed that the shows skewed newer. I'd have gone with Alice for Arizona, and shows set in New York and California are so numerous, but I'd have gone with something older for each. The Andy Griffith Show, Northern Exposure and Twin Peaks were much better choices for North Carolina, Alaska and Washington, respectively, and I might have gone with The Mary Tyler Moore Show over Coach for Minnesota, although both are good picks. Home Improvement would have been my choice for Michigan, The Drew Carey Show for Ohio, and either Miami Vice or CSI: Miami for Florida. At least he got Newhart for Vermont; I don't imagine there have been many, if any, shows set in that state since then.

I guess that's the fun of lists like this: anyone can second guess and make a good case for their choice.

 

[Biffstunt]

I live in Massachusetts. They chose Dawson's Creek?? I just checked Wikipedia and found that DC was set in Massachusetts, didn't know that, never watched it. On the other hand, the one thing I DID know about DC was that it was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. I lived there in 1999 and 2000.

For Massachusetts, if you want to go with shows from the 80s and beyond, I'd choose Spenser: For Hire, The Practice, or Boston Legal for starters.

Ummm...CHEERS?!?!?!

 

[Biffstunt]

I live in Maine - surprising to see Once Upon a Time as the Maine show. Perhaps more popular shows like Dark Shadows, or even SyFy's recent Stephen King-based effort called "Haven" would be more appropriate.

 

[quadraphonic]

I live in Massachusetts. They chose Dawson's Creek?? I just checked Wikipedia and found that DC was set in Massachusetts, didn't know that, never watched it. On the other hand, the one thing I DID know about DC was that it was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. I lived there in 1999 and 2000.

For Massachusetts, if you want to go with shows from the 80s and beyond, I'd choose Spenser: For Hire, The Practice, or Boston Legal for starters.

Ummm...CHEERS?!?!?!

The fact that that's not what's there invalidates the whole idea.

 

[WMC2006]

I live in Massachusetts. They chose Dawson's Creek?? I just checked Wikipedia and found that DC was set in Massachusetts, didn't know that, never watched it. On the other hand, the one thing I DID know about DC was that it was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. I lived there in 1999 and 2000.

For Massachusetts, if you want to go with shows from the 80s and beyond, I'd choose Spenser: For Hire, The Practice, or Boston Legal for starters.

Ummm...CHEERS?!?!?!

Absolutely! I knew I'd forget something like Cheers. That'd work too.

 

[ding12]

Californication is a good show, but others on my CA list include

90210
Melrose Place
Arrested Development

Not just because they take place here (where I am in Callie) but because they are Califlavored!

BTW spent nearly my entire adult life in SoCal so I know the taste of the Golden State. I lived in the Delaware Valley as a kid and just recently so I know how the golden state tastes and these shows do represent. 8)

'The OC' also for California. The theme song was also 'California'
--
Now, I watch 'Community' and apparently Greendale is a fictional town in Colorado, but I just don't see Colorado really represented or even talked about. Greendale could be pretty much anywhere.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

At least they didn't pick "One Day At A Time" to represent Indiana.

 

[Bob1370]

For New York, why not NYPD Blue or Law and Order?
Or if you want comedy, either Seinfeld, The Honeymooners, or Friends?

And for Colorado--South Park?

 

[ding12]

For New York, why not NYPD Blue or Law and Order?
Or if you want comedy, either Seinfeld, The Honeymooners, or Friends?

And for Colorado--South Park?

Also for NY, The Cosby Show, King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond, Sex and the City, Louie among many others but Seinfeld is likely most wide known and felt NY. Friends seemed like fake set of apartment in NY, and with the types of jobs they had (atleast in the earlier seasons), the Friends couldn't afford such places in NY.

 

[arnoldevns]

And they didn't pick Dallas for Texas??
I'll admit, Friday Night Lights is much more realistic than Dallas, but Dallas was/is a far bigger show.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Like I mentioned earlier the oldest shows listed started in the 80's or later. The oldest show I saw listed was Newhart. So there were a lot of older shows that would have been more fitting but were ignored.

 

[BlueWanderer]

I have two issues with their pick for Alabama. First, Big Shrimpin' focuses mainly on the Mobile area of Alabama, not the entire state. Second, their quote "It's hard work, but is there an accent more relaxing than an Alabaman's?". Um, yeah right. :

Doesn't everybody outside of the state constantly make fun of that accent anyway? Well, I suppose they could've pick something way worse for Alabama than Big Shrimpin'.