Tax Incentives Aside, TV Leaves California To Shoot Pilots

At least half of the new hourlong pilots ordered by the Big Four networks and the CW will be shot outside California, despite that state’s recently passed tax-incentive program. “But that program is seen by many in the TV biz as too little too late, and with too many strings attached. … Producers of gameshows, talkshows, news programs, reality skeins, docus and porn need not apply; those types of productions are not eligible for the credit.”