Will and Kate visit L.A.: Locals' top 10 southern California must-sees

5. Tour a TV studio

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This undated image provided by Bell-Phillip Television Productions Inc. shows 'The Bold and the Beautiful' actress Susan Flannery taping an episode in Los Angeles' Skid Row.

Several dozen choices here range from the sets for "Community" and "Happily Divorced" to "30 Rock" and "Dateline NBC."

“I don’t know if they get any of these shows in Britain, or if the royals even have any time to watch TV,” says secretary Amy Zindblat. “But until you see behind the curtain of how these everyday shows are made, you’re as in-the-dark as Dorothy was in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ about the old guy pressing all those buttons and dials.”

Ms. Zindblat still remembers the first time she saw the pretend Dunder/Mifflin Paper Co. set for NBC’s “The Office.”

“I thought to myself, 'Here I am in Scranton, Pa.,' ” she says. “I still can’t get over that it’s just a building near some railroad tracks in the San Fernando Valley.”

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