![]() ![]() “But as soon as we started to poke around we realized the economic incentives present in many other places weren’t there.” “Whenever I was pitching (the show), the fun part of the pitch was, ‘Why Denver?’ ” she said. She adapted that into a remote women’s prison on the plains of Eastern Colorado, where one of her main characters is incarcerated. That’s likely true of most cities, but for “Guilty Party,” Addelman also was inspired by Colorado’s supermax prison in Florence, which houses some of the country’s most dangerous criminals. “I was drawn to the idea of Colorado’s purple-state politics, and I find Denver a really exciting, vibrant city,” said Rebecca Addelman, who created and wrote “Guilty Party,” following work on “New Girl,” “Ghosted” and “Dead to Me.” “Whenever I’m there driving around, I see all walks of life within a stone’s throw of each other.” The libertarian, long-running “South Park” is also one of the few that invokes Colorado’s wildly disparate demographics and economic classes. “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, who produce their Colorado-set animated show in Los Angeles, recently purchased the Lakewood eatery Casa Bonita. Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were ringing the bell for Casa Bonita and mocking American Furniture Warehouse founder Jake Jabs and local newscasters since the early 2000s (it’s no surprise that they recently bought Casa Bonita). ![]() In “Guilty Party” the setting feels more incidental, whereas a show like “South Park” is full of insider Colorado references. While it only employed a few exterior shots of Boulder (where the Mork and Mindy house remains) and the Flatirons, as well as the occasional location shoot (see the 1979 Broncos episode at Mile High Stadium), it was largely made on a soundstage in California. Running 1978-1982, it helped cast an enduring, crunchy-granola image of Boulder nationwide. The beloved “Mork & Mindy,” for example, starred Robin Williams as an alien and Pam Dawber as a University of Colorado student. But shows that are not shot in (or anywhere near) Colorado can sometimes feel more “Colorado” than others. Denver residents expressed excitement in April when NBCUniversal announced plans to shoot a prestige pilot on-location in Denver and Durango. While there’s lately been an explosion of home-improvement, ghost-hunter, true-crime and “Ninja Warrior”-style series that truly shoot here, when it comes to fictional TV titles - from “Dynasty” to newer shows such as “Those Who Can’t” (now on HBO Max) and “Space Force” (on Netflix) - does the production location matter? It’s the latest TV project to use Colorado as a backdrop, even as the scenes are actually being shot thousands of miles away. 14 on Paramount+, features a handful of Denver shots - our skyline, the Speer Boulevard bridge, 16th Street Mall’s D&F Clocktower - but was made in Canada. In “Guilty Party,” English actor Kate Beckinsale plays a disgraced Colorado journalist who’s been demoted from the Denver Herald newspaper to a millennial-run, LoDo-based startup called Pop Bite News. Best movies, TV shows set in Denver and Colorado ![]()
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