CBS TV present ‘Tracker’ awarded $48M in California tax credit score

One in all tv’s greatest hits is formally calling the Golden State house.

CBS’s “Tracker,” the Justin Hartley-led drama that has dominated scores since its 2024 debut, is relocating manufacturing from Vancouver to Los Angeles for Season 4 — and it’s doing so with the biggest California tax credit score ever awarded to a TV sequence: $48 million.

The transfer, finalized just lately however lengthy within the works, marks a serious win for California’s beleaguered movie and tv trade, which has for years battled diminishing manufacturing. The studio behind the sequence, twentieth Tv, is at present locking down manufacturing services in and round LA, with filming set to start in late June.

Hartley, who stars as lone-wolf survivalist Colter Shaw and likewise serves as one of many present’s co-executive producers, expressed pleasure in regards to the shift.

“I’m happy with what we inbuilt Vancouver. I’m additionally very excited we’re bringing ‘Tracker’ to LA,” Hartley mentioned, in keeping with Deadline. “I’m trying ahead to persevering with to inform these tales alongside the brand new, contemporary locations we’ll be heading to subsequent.”

The sequence, primarily based on Jeffery Deaver’s bestselling novel “The By no means Sport,” follows Shaw as he travels the nation in an RV monitoring lacking individuals and fixing crimes for reward cash.

Its distant, wilderness-heavy storytelling lends itself to filming exterior the Better Los Angeles 30-mile zone — qualifying it for an additional 5% bonus on high of the bottom 35% credit score below California’s incentive program.

Showrunner and government producer Elwood Reid instructed Deadline of the advantages of the transfer whereas exhibiting appreciation to Vancouver’s crew.

“Location is a large a part of the storytelling on ‘Tracker,’” Reid instructed the outlet. “We’re so grateful to the crew and folks of Vancouver who made the primary three seasons of this hit drama potential, and are concurrently thrilled to have the ability to kick off the fourth season of ‘Tracker’ by filming in Los Angeles, because of the tax incentive program that helps bringing manufacturing again to California.”

The $48 million credit score tops earlier massive awards, together with the $42 million given to Season 3 of Amazon’s “Fallout” and the $42.8 million for one more twentieth Tv mission, the upcoming NFL drama “The Land.”

For Los Angeles movie and TV crews nonetheless feeling the results of trade slowdowns that appeared to start out throughout Covid shutdowns, the relocation means jobs, native spending, and a lift to companies that help movie and TV manufacturing.

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