Where Are Talk Shows and Game Shows Filmed in Los Angeles?

Short answer: a handful of famous lots and broadcast stages, most of them clustered around Culver City, Hollywood, Glendale and Burbank. Longer answer: the list is changing, because a growing share of talk and game formats no longer build a physical set at all.

The famous answer: the studio lots

The shows everyone asks about tape at real, nameable addresses:

• Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City: Jeopardy! tapes on Stage 10, renamed the Alex Trebek Stage, and Wheel of Fortune tapes next door on Stage 11. Both have shot on the lot since the mid-’90s.
• Television City. The Fairfax district broadcast complex that hosted decades of daytime TV, including The Price Is Right in Bob Barker Studio 33 for 51 years.
• Haven Studios, Glendale. Where The Price Is Right moved in 2023 when Television City began its renovation.
• El Capitan Entertainment Centre, Hollywood: Jimmy Kimmel Live! broadcasts from Hollywood Boulevard.
• Burbank, talk-show country since Johnny Carson taped The Tonight Show from “beautiful downtown Burbank,” and still home to working lots and stages today.

So when people ask “where are game shows filmed,” the honest industry answer is: mostly greater Los Angeles, on purpose-built multi-camera stages with lighting grids, control rooms and audience seating.

Why these formats live on dedicated stages

Talk shows and game shows are the most industrial formats in television. They shoot multi-camera, often several episodes a day, in front of an audience, on a set that has to look identical every taping. That’s why they cluster on a few stages, the infrastructure (grid, audio, audience handling, fast turnarounds) matters more than the zip code.

The traditional cost of entry is the set itself: a talk-show home base or a game-show floor is a serious build, and it occupies the stage for the life of the show.

The shift: the set doesn’t have to be physical anymore

Here’s what’s changed. Virtual production stages now host these exact formats without a construction phase. On our Burbank studio floor, the set is a photoreal virtual environment rendered in real time in Unreal Engine and composited in camera while you shoot. The desk, chairs, podiums and props are real; the world around them is not. It’s the CastleVision method we pioneered in 2007, now patented.

That’s not theoretical. It’s how these shows have actually taped here:

• Hart to Heart (NBC/Peacock) shot on our stage inside a grand winery set, watch the clip where Bryan Cranston remarks on how spectacular the set looks.
• Game-show productions for major networks have run on our floor, including a massive custom game-show build with multiple shooting areas and an upstairs balcony. See our game show sets in Los Angeles.
• Celebrity Ping Pong and the Diarra From Detroit cast reunion special for Paramount. The series itself shot on location, but when it came time to put the cast on a talk-show-style stage, that taped here in Burbank.

Because the environment is software, a producer can walk through our talk show sets, like the upscale news & talk show sets in our library, pick one, and tape on it the same week. Change the skyline behind the host between segments. Rebrand the whole set for a new season overnight. No build days, no strike days, no storage.

What that means for your show

If you’re producing a talk, panel, game or aftershow format, the question isn’t just “which lot has an open stage” anymore. A TV studio rental in Los Angeles on a virtual production stage gives you the finished look on day one, with audience seating and multi-cam workflow built in, in Burbank, or at our Albuquerque studio for New Mexico productions.

Have a format in development? Tell us about it and we’ll show you what your set could look like before you ever load in.