TV Talk: How CBSs Watson recreates Pittsburgh in British Columbia [Video]

VANCOUVER, Canada — Turns out Pittsburgh is big enough for two TV medical dramas.

Three weeks after streaming service Max debuted “The Pitt,” set at a fictionalized version of Allegheny General Hospital on the North Side, CBS premieres “Watson” (approximately 10 p.m. today following the AFC Championship game, KDKA-TV), a medical mystery drama set at ficti onal University Hospital of Pittsburgh in Oakland.

That location is apparent pretty quickly as series creator and Squirrel Hill native Craig Sweeny (“Limitless”) gives a tour of the “Watson” sets in early November: An enormous drapery (called a translight) with an image of the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning printed on it hangs outside the windows of a waiting room area of UHOP.

The photo of the Cathedral of Learning was taken from a balcony at The Oaklander Hotel, where the cast and crew stayed when they filmed for three days in Pittsburgh in …