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

1. 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.
2. "The Game returns huge for BET with 7.7 million viewers", TV by the Numbers