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 Close Menu

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