The original post: /r/television by /u/whomp1970 on 2024-12-01 18:49:51.
So my wife is going back and binging some older TV shows. She’s binged Criminal Minds, Leverage, House, Law & Order, Castle, Bones, and several others.
I swear I can tell you which network a show aired on, by “Feel”.
“Castle” feels like an ABC show.
“Friends” feels like an NBC show.
“King of Queens” feels like a CBS show.
“Glee” feels like a Fox show.
You can usually tell a show was on The WB or The CW, like Dawson’s Creek or Felicity.
Am I nuts? Or is it just advertising (“Watch Friends on NBC!”) that I didn’t realize was being embedded in my mind?
EDIT: I just realized that the sets or backlots could have something to do with it. The same “fake town made in a backlot” for Gilmore Girls (for example) was probably reused for other shows. The same “fake city street” used in Friends may have been used for other shows.