Editing Cheers (section)

===Filming styles and locations===
[[File:Cheers Beacon Hill interior 2.jpg|thumb|Interior of the bar]]
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Most ''Cheers'' episodes were, as a voiceover stated at the start of each, "filmed before a live [[studio audience]]" on Paramount Stage 25 in Hollywood, generally on Tuesday nights. Scripts for a new episode were issued the Wednesday before for a [[read-through]], Friday was [[rehearsal]] day, and final scripts were issued on Monday. Burrows, who directed most episodes, insisted on using [[film stock]] rather than [[videotape]]. He was also noted for using motion in his directorial style, trying to constantly keep characters moving rather than standing still.<ref name="B7-8">Bjorklund, p.&nbsp;7–8.</ref> Burrows and the Charles brothers emphasized to the cast to "never assume that you're not being watched" because the camera would be focused on the actors at all times, so they had to always be reacting and "always be funny".<ref name="UCTV"/> During the first season when ratings were poor Paramount and NBC asked that the show use videotape to save money, but a poor test taping ended the experiment and ''Cheers'' continued to use film.<ref name="levine20120318">{{cite web | url=http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2012/03/another-thing-about-cheers-you-didnt.html | title=Another thing about CHEERS you didn't know | work=...by Ken Levine | date=March 18, 2012 | access-date=March 18, 2012 | author=Levine, Ken | archive-date=May 16, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516003806/https://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2012/03/another-thing-about-cheers-you-didnt.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

Due to a decision by Glen and Les Charles, the [[cold open]] was often not connected to the rest of the episode, with the lowest-ranked writers assigned to create the jokes for them. Some cold opens were taken from episodes that ran too long.<ref name=levine20110128>{{cite news|last=Levine|first=Ken|title=My favorite CHEERS teaser|url=http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-favorite-cheers-teaser.html|access-date=January 28, 2011|newspaper=...by Ken Levine|date=January 28, 2011|archive-date=January 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110129085001/http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-favorite-cheers-teaser.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The first year of the show took place entirely within the confines of the bar, the first location outside the bar being Diane's apartment in the second year. When the series became a hit, the characters started venturing further afield, first to other sets and eventually to an occasional exterior location. The exterior location shots of the bar are of the Bull & Finch Pub, located directly north of the [[Boston Public Garden]]. The pub has become a [[tourist attraction]] because of its association with the series, and draws nearly one million visitors annually.<ref name=B3/><ref name="synd1"/> It has since been renamed [[Cheers Beacon Hill]]; its interior is different from the TV bar. The pub itself is at 84 Beacon Street (on the corner of Brimmer Street). In August 2001, there was a replica made of the bar in [[Faneuil Hall]] to capitalize on the popularity of the show.

After the show ended, the 1,000-square-foot bar set from ''Cheers'' was offered to the [[Smithsonian]], which turned it down because it was too large.<ref name="THR">{{cite news| url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cheers-bar-finally-finds-a-723417| title='Cheers' Bar Finally Finds a Museum Home| author=Bryn Elise Sandberg| publisher=The Hollywood Reporter| date=August 7, 2014| access-date=June 6, 2020| archive-date=February 12, 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212094919/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cheers-bar-finally-finds-a-723417| url-status=live}}</ref> It was displayed for a short time at the defunct Hollywood Entertainment Museum, but later returned to storage, where it remained for many years. In 2014, CBS donated the set to the Museum of Television after a years-long campaign by James Burrows and his office on behalf of the museum's founder, James Comisar. At the time of the donation, Comisar initiated a planned $100,000 restoration of the set using former conservators from the [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]], although a site for the 10,000 item collection of the museum had not been decided upon.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2015/07/01/from-supermans-suit-to-the-cheers-bar-inside-the-worlds-greatest-collection-of-tv-memoribilia/#155ba4c21d35| title=From Superman's Suit to The 'Cheers' Bar, Inside the World's Greatest Collection of TV Memorabilia| author=Abram Brown| work=Forbes| date=July 1, 2015| access-date=June 6, 2020| archive-date=July 3, 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703011515/https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2015/07/01/from-supermans-suit-to-the-cheers-bar-inside-the-worlds-greatest-collection-of-tv-memoribilia/#155ba4c21d35| url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="THR"/>