Friday, September 17, 2021
IMDb TV series 'Sprung' filming in New Kensington and Arnold
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: When a movie or television show films on location, it’s common to cover the signage of local businesses with names that fit the time period or setting of the production. The Amazon Prime Video series “A League of Their Own” recently did that with the old Schwartz Market on the South Side while shooting there in July.
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Usually I think of TV and movies only being filmed in New York or Los Angeles, so it’s a good reminder that lots of media films outside of those two cities. It’s always fun to spot a location you see every day in a piece of film or TV, and I thought it was a funny choice to introduce the article with the mistaken customers. On a larger scale, if a piece of media becomes a cult classic it can even produce a small tourism boom to the filming location; for example, Snoqualmie, WA is where Twin Peaks filmed many of its iconic scenes, and fans of the franchise make the pilgrimage to visit the town and document their time. The same can happen with an area in Pittsburgh, and for smaller towns in the area it’s definitely an exciting moment. Hopefully more and more shows and movies will film in the area and more Pittsburgh actors can gain a bigger audience.
I wasn’t here over the summer but know a handful of people that worked on the productions mentioned. It’s always so exciting when filming productions come to town because of all the opportunities it opens for local workers and local businesses. Before moving to Pittsburgh I had never really thought of it as a prime filming destination, and have been thoroughly surprised by the amount of filming productions that have come through town; even during the pandemic before vaccines. It’s awesome to know that so many people from CMU are considered to work on the shows and films that pass through town as the crew, interns, extras, or other forms of talent. I wonder what makes Pittsburgh so appealing to location scouts? Our weather is a bit unpredictable but I suppose we have some really great locations around town that mimic “suburbia”. Of course, having films and tv shows come to town is also exciting because you never know what celebrities you’ll run into.
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