{"id":273265,"date":"2026-08-27T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273265\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:30:07","slug":"two-shows-with-philly-ties-are-streaming-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273265\/","title":{"rendered":"Two shows with Philly ties are streaming this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia is front and center on two major TV shows airing this fall, giving local viewers a reason to tune in for familiar settings and hometown pride.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia\u201d is now airing its 18th season on FX, making it the longest-running live-action sitcom of all time. Meanwhile, the latest season of \u201cReacher\u201d on Prime Video was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/philly-shows-streaming-always-sunny-reacher\/?utm_source=pv-rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=pv-site\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">actually filmed in Philadelphia last summer<\/a>, putting real city locations on screen for viewers who know every block.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlways Sunny\u201d returns after Frank\u2019s wedding disaster<\/p>\n<p>The last season of the long-running FX comedy ended with Frank finding love on \u201cThe Golden Bachelor.\u201d Season 18 opens by killing off Frank\u2019s bride at the altar, sending Dennis and Dee scrambling to claim their almost-stepmom\u2019s money while the rest of the gang goes on unrelated misadventures.<\/p>\n<p>The show may be mostly shot in Los Angeles, but PhillyVoice called the record \u201ca hometown win for the city that inspired it.\u201d New episodes air Mondays on FX and stream on Hulu the following day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReacher\u201d pounds cheesesteaks and dodges cops at Parc<\/p>\n<p>The military-trained drifter played by Alan Ritchson dives into Philadelphia\u2019s culture in the newest season of the Prime Video series. Reacher eats cheesesteaks, dodges cops at Parc and tries to unravel a conspiracy he stumbled into on SEPTA in Season 4.<\/p>\n<p>Local viewers will have fun spotting the difference between the real city and the set, and tracing the sometimes impossible paths the characters travel. New episodes debut Wednesdays on Prime Video. The show is expected to move to a new location next season.<\/p>\n<p>Two more titles with local ties hit streaming<\/p>\n<p>The 2010 drama \u201cBlue Valentine,\u201d starring Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, is coming to Paramount+ on Sunday. The film used a space-themed fantasy suite at the Radisson Valley Forge in Montgomery County as a backdrop for one of its key scenes. It follows a couple\u2019s relationship in two timelines, switching between an early courtship and a crumbling marriage.<\/p>\n<p>For something lighter, the campy horror film \u201cM3GAN\u201d is now available on Netflix. It has no direct Philadelphia connection, but PhillyVoice recommended it \u201cfor all regions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia is front and center on two major TV shows airing this fall, giving local viewers a reason&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-273265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}