CBS TV show ‘Tracker’ awarded $48M in California tax credit…
One of tv’s greatest hits is formally calling the Golden State dwelling.
CBS’s “Tracker,” the Justin Hartley-led drama that has dominated rankings since its 2024 debut, is relocating manufacturing from Vancouver to Los Angeles for Season 4 — and it’s doing so with the largest California tax credit ever awarded to a TV sequence: $48 million.
The transfer, finalized just lately however lengthy in the works, marks a major win for California’s beleaguered movie and tv trade, which has for years battled diminishing manufacturing. The studio behind the sequence, twentieth Television, is at the moment locking down manufacturing services in and round LA, with filming set to start in late June.
Justin Hartley-led drama “Tracker” is about to movie Season 4 in California because of a $48 million tax incentive. CBS by way of Getty Images
“Neptune” Colter travels to New York City to discover a lady who vanished in the dressing room of an upscale clothes retailer, on the CBS Original sequence TRACKER. CBS by way of Getty Images
Hartley, who stars as lone-wolf survivalist Colter Shaw and also serves as one in all the show’s co-executive producers, expressed pleasure about the shift.
“I’m proud of what we built in Vancouver. I’m also very excited we’re bringing ‘Tracker’ to LA,” Hartley said, according to Deadline. “I’m looking forward to continuing to tell these stories alongside the new, fresh places we’ll be heading to next.”
The sequence, based on Jeffery Deaver’s bestselling novel “The Never Game,” follows Shaw as he travels the nation in an RV monitoring lacking individuals and fixing crimes for reward cash.
CBS’s “Tracker” is relocating manufacturing from Vancouver to Los Angeles for Season 4. Shutterstock / Tonktiti
Its distant, wilderness-heavy storytelling lends itself to filming exterior the Greater Los Angeles 30-mile zone — qualifying it for an additional 5% bonus on top of the base 35% credit under California’s incentive program.
Showrunner and government producer Elwood Reid told Deadline of the advantages of the transfer while exhibiting appreciation to Vancouver’s crew.
Justin Hartley arrives to the ‘This Is Us’ Season 3 Premiere on September 25, 2018 in Hollywood. Shutterstock / DFree
“Location is a huge part of the storytelling on ‘Tracker,’” Reid told the outlet. “We’re so grateful to the crew and people of Vancouver who made the first three seasons of this hit drama possible, and are simultaneously thrilled to be able to kick off the fourth season of ‘Tracker’ by filming in Los Angeles, thanks to the tax incentive program that supports bringing production back to California.”
The $48 million credit tops earlier big awards, including the $42 million given to Season 3 of Amazon’s “Fallout” and the $42.8 million for another twentieth Television project, the upcoming NFL drama “The Land.”
For Los Angeles movie and TV crews still feeling the effects of trade slowdowns that appeared to start during Covid shutdowns, the relocation means jobs, local spending, and a lift to companies that help movie and TV manufacturing.
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