Early scripts for Joel McHale’s new show, Animal Control, were set in Chicago, complete with assorted Windy City references. When production decreed the comedy would film in Vancouver, McHale pointed out: Chicago is conspicuously flat. “The towering mountain ranges will be hard to edit out.”
The comedian and dry-wit factory, busy with his pre-show press junket, also happens to be a Mercer Island native (“and I’m obviously very outspoken about it.”). Ergo the new Fox workplace comedy, which debuts this Thursday, February 16, now centers on the daily adventures of the Northwest Seattle Division of Animal Control. McHale plays Frank Shaw, a one-time cop now
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