San Jose’s been getting prime time treatment this season on ABC’s hit medical drama “The Good Doctor,” and it’s been interesting to see how the show depicts the Bay Area’s biggest city every Monday night.

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Art in construction zone will move to new downtown San Jose home This being TV, of course, the characters who populate the pretend San Jose are improbably attractive and ambiguosly ethnic. And because it’s shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, outdoor scenes are generally more overcast and green than you’d get in the Santa Clara Valley, with our 300 days of sunshine a year.

Then there’s the fictional San Jose St. Bonaventure hospital itself, where Freddie Highmore‘s Dr. Shaun Murphy practices his medical wizardry while his colleagues get an afterschool-special lesson in working with someone who is autistic. If the gorgeous, glass-walled exterior of the hospital doesn’t look familiar, that’s because it doesn’t exist in San Jose. In reality, it’s the city hall of Surrey, British Columbia, not far from where the show is shot.

Paradoxically, background shots make the building look like it’s in the heart of downtown, but in other scenes, its location seems almost pastoral, with more parking than SAP Center. Still, it says “Silicon Valley” better than any real building downtown.

Through the season’s first six episodes, San Jose hasn’t been an essential character in the series the way Chicago is for seemingly the entire NBC lineup. But it’s been fun to catch local references, like when a character mentioned a longtime family market on the corner of 17th and Santa Clara. There’s a Walgreen’s there now, but that corner was once home to the historic Lou’s Donut Shop.

Sometimes the geography gets dodgy, though, as when two docs took a helicopter ride (!) to San Francisco to pick up a liver. The copter soared over downtown, but it was flying south, so the characters had a better chance of getting to Morgan Hill than the Golden Gate. And on the return trip by car — don’t ask — the journey took a nail-biting three hours on Interstate 280, which exceeds the bounds of even the worst Friday afternoon traffic jams.

Highmore’s character takes the bus to work, but Santa Clara Metro stands in for VTA in the show’s reality, and the transit agency’s website, www.santaclarametro.net, redirects you the website of the show’s producer, Sony Pictures Television. So far, there haven’t been any mentions of San Jose institutions like the Winchester Mystery House, SAP Center or Original Joe’s. But it’s early yet, and from its ratings, it looks like “The Good Doctor” may be a resident in San Jose for years to come.

MUSICAL PRODIGY COMING TO SAN JOSE: If you tune into “60 Minutes” on Sunday night, you’ll see the story of Alma Deutscher, a 12-year-old British girl whose musical ability has been compared to Mozart. She’s a virtuoso at the piano and violin and also composes, and Silicon Valley residents will get to experience her talent first-hand next month.

Through the Packard Humanities Institute, David W. Packard has arranged to bring the talented pre-teen to perform a violin concerto with Symphony Silicon Valley Dec. 2-3. But Alma’s work as a composer also will be in the spotlight when Opera San Jose produces her opera “Cinderella,” a reinterpretation of the classic fairy tale that was first presented in December in Vienna. It will be directed by Brad Dalton, with Jane Glover conducting.

Alma’s opera shifts the setting to an opera company, with Cinderella as a young composer and the prince a poet in search of a lost melody. Tickets for the show, which will run Dec.16-21 at the California Theatre, are available at www.operasj.org or by calling 408-437-4450.

LIVING THE HI-LIFE: It wasn’t on “The Good Doctor,” but a San Jose institution did show up on TV this past week. On Monday’s episode of “Kevin Can Wait,” Kevin James‘ character and co-star Ryan Cartwright take a road trip that includes a stop at Henry’s Hi-Life. On the show, the unmistakable exterior of the historic steak joint is used for a roadhouse bar in upstate New York. The inside is pure Hollywood, with pool tables, license plates on the wall and an arm wrestling tournament.

GOLDEN MEMORIES: When Eddie Owen and Helen Marchese Owen celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary by renewing their vows last weekend, they went to Greenlee’s Bakery in San Jose for their cake just as they had in 1967. The topper? One of the bakery employees who did the flowers for their seven-tier cake back then worked on the new cake, too.

HONOR FOR SEAGATE CEO: The Silicon Valley Education Foundation will honor Seagate Technologies CEO Steve Luczo as its Pioneer Business Leader on Wednesday night at the 13th annual Pioneers & Purpose celebration. Luczo said he was honored by the recognition from the foundation, which works to raise student performance in STEM education across Silicon Valley. “SVEF is building a stronger Silicon Valley and stronger workforce to lead us into the future,” he said.

The dinner at the Fairmont San Jose also will recognize the recipients of the foundation’s 2017 STEM Innovation Awards and its Teacher of the Year, Lisa Carrell, a sixth-grade science and language arts teacher and eighth-grade math teacher at Ocala STEAM Academy in San Jose. For tickets, go to svefoundation.org.

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES: Pizza My Heart owner Chuck Hammers and wife Mary Babbitt were dining out at San Pedro Square Market on Monday night when they ran into former San Jose Redevelopment Agency director Frank Taylor and former councilman David Pandori. Construction of many iconic downtown buildings — including the Fairmont Hotel, the Tech Museum and Children’s Discovery Museum — were built during Taylor’s 20-year tenure in the 1980s and ’90s.

Taylor, who retired to Salem, Ore., was in town for the memorial for former Vice Mayor Shirley Lewis, and he told Hammers he was thrilled to see downtown thriving now. His one disappointment? He stopped by SAP Center — another major venue built under his watch — to see how the arena had held up over the past 25 years, but security wouldn’t let him in. How soon they forget.