‘American Idol’ moving production out of Los Angeles to Atlanta…
“American Idol” is packing up Hollywood and heading across the nation.
The long-running singing competitors is relocating its production from Los Angeles to the larger Atlanta space ahead of its milestone twenty fifth season. Fremantle, which co-produces the collection alongside Sony Pictures Television’s 19 Entertainment, confirmed the major transfer to Deadline.
A major driver behind the exit is Georgia’s profitable tax incentive program, which affords up to a 30% tax credit score for unscripted and actuality tv productions that spend a minimal of $500,000 in the state, the news outlet reported.
Hulu didn’t reply to The Post’s request for remark concerning the transfer. Fremantle and Simon Fuller’s 19 Entertainment, the production corporations behind ‘American Idol,’ also didn’t reply.
Unscripted production in Los Angeles has plummeted 62.7% against its five-year common, according to FilmLA. Disney
A major driver behind American Idol’s exit from Los Angeles is Georgia’s profitable tax incentive program. GC Images
First launched on Fox in 2002, the present spent 15 seasons as a rankings powerhouse in Los Angeles, pushed by host Ryan Seacrest and unique judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson.
Even in its fatigued fifteenth and final Fox season, the present averaged a 3.0 rating among adults 18–49 and 11.5 million viewers, according to the Billboard.
After going off the air for 2 years, ABC revived the competitive collection in March 2018 with Seacrest and a choose lineup that includes Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie, and Carrie Underwood.
The high-profile relocation marks the latest blow to unscripted TV production in Los Angeles, an business phase that has been struggling for a chronic interval.
According to FilmLA data reported by The Wrap, local unscripted production dropped sharply in the second quarter, with actuality TV shoot days plunging 40% year-over-year.
While total tv filming noticed a quarter-over-quarter uptick, unscripted production in Los Angeles has plummeted 62.7% against its five-year common, according to the group.
The departure follows the same exit earlier this 12 months in May, when Fox Entertainment Studios announced it will not produce “The Masked Singer.”
The singing competitors most just lately wrapped up its twenty fourth season on May 11, 2026. Disney
Eureka Productions took over the collection and moved operations to New Jersey to take benefit of the state’s tax incentive program, which affords a 30% tax credit score on certified bills and up to 40% on particular studio initiatives.
Although California just lately expanded its tax incentive program under AB 1138 to cowl unscripted collection for the first time, the state restricted eligibility strictly to large-scale competitors reveals with per-episode budgets exceeding $1 million.
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California has seen a notable company exodus in recent times with major corporations like Tesla, Chevron, Oracle, CBRE, and Palantir establishing their base in another state.
Paramount CEO David Ellison is also actively evaluating a potential film and TV studio in Texas amid intensifying antitrust dispute over his plans to merge Paramount with Warner Bros. Discovery in a $110 billion mega deal.
A preliminary report by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. (LAEDC) warns that Paramount’s full company exit from California may price the state between 28,990 and 57,980 everlasting jobs, $10.6 billion to $21.2 billion in annual financial output and up to $1.17 billion in misplaced annual tax income.
Ellison has given regulators an October 1 deadline to enter settlement talks. If they refuse, he plans to transfer Paramount’s headquarters to states like Texas (eyeing Austin), Tennessee, or Georgia.
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