Three Rivers - where is the homage to Pittsburgh?

[Meryem Ersoz]

They sure don't talk like people from Pittsburgh or Wheeling.

And not a single Steelers (go Stillers!) reference. How could this be Pittsburgh??

...and they need an Iron City beer product placement rather desperately.

And not a single immigrant doc, totally unrealistic. This is the most homogenous looking and sounding group of docs ever, nothing like the real deal.

Part of the problem with this stinker is that it is not really set anywhere. Too LA, not enough 'burgh!

I grew up in these hospitals, played cards with recovering patients in the ICU, worked in the housekeeping department as a teenager. My grandfather was a president of one of them, my mother the vice president of medical affairs, my dad a physician. Did these producers even spend one level second in a real tri-state area hospital?

I know CPR (learned it at St. Clair Hospital, as a matter of fact, for you locals...) and could give this thing the breath of life, quickly before it gets canceled...

They should have hired me as a creative consultant...

Alex O'Loughlin should have stuck to sucking blood, not transfusing it...

I need something *really important* to rant about!

[Richardvclark]

I am also from the burgh and I could not agree with you more. The show is completely unauthentic. I refuse to watch it.

[Meryem Ersoz]

I knew that there would be at least one of you out there! Go Steelers.

Those Broncos/Steelers match ups kill me every year. November 9th, here I come. I can't wait.

[David Mullen ASC]

I haven't seen it, but I almost shot the pilot (I ended up shooting the pilot for "The Good Wife" instead) and I recall that was shot in Pittsburgh on location, although once it was picked up for production, apparently a new pilot was shot again with higher-tech sets, etc. to compete with the CSI crowd. I assume the series itself is shooting here in Los Angeles.

"The Good Wife" is set in Chicago but we had to shoot the pilot in Vancouver, and the series itself is shot in New York City.

The thing with pilots is often the budgets are tight because many of them are never picked up, with the notion that if necessary, reshoots, etc. will be done before broadcasting the pilot. For example, I worked on Season Two of "Big Love" and if you look at the original pilot episode, the interior rooms are different because they were shot on location; the sets were later built for the series. So I think they shot the pilot for "Three Rivers" in Pittsburgh partly to get the local flavor from being on location but also to avoid building sets, trying to make a budgetary limitation into something positive... but it seems once the series was picked up, there was a decision to rev it up visually, spend more money on sets, etc. and perhaps this local flavor was lost or deemed unnecessary. Don't know, haven't seen it yet, nor have I ever been to Pittsburgh so I wouldn't know what was authentic or not. However, it's not unusual for a TV series to not be shot in the city the story is set in.

[Chuck Z]

I am also from the burgh and I could not agree with you more. The show is completely unauthentic. I refuse to watch it.
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