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Could DSC production move to California in 2018 with tax credits for season2?

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TV projects receiving lucrative tax credits from California’s incentive program. Although not all allocated, this latest round saw $51 million available for recurring series and $25 million for relocating series,
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Limited to recurring and newly relocating series, the latest round of applications for the $76 million available in total ran May 22-29. Including the relocating Timeless, a total of 28 recurring series in various stages of production are currently in the program and eligible for tax incentives during this period, says the CFC – no one else gets anything until a formal pickup is given.
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The next TV round begins November 6 and goes until November 13, with news of who got what due sometime around the second week of December.
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Having seen FX’s Legion and Fox’s Lucifer move from Vancouver and Showtime’s The Affair jump from New York in the last round of TV tax incentive awards in March, the California Film Commission continued its emphasis on snagging relocating series with Thursday’s announcement.
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‘This Is Us’ & ‘Timeless’ Among TV Projects Awarded California Tax Credits
Did CBS even apply for relocating DSC to California for tax credits for season 2? Will they apply before the series finishes being broadcast in this Winter?
I'm sure studio deals have been made and actor contracts signed for multi-year exclusivity but Canadian-based actors are the ones that would really be affected. Trek is a studio show mostly and all exteriors have been painfully obvious in the previous series as Southern California. DSC already shot in Jordan for the premiere episode.


DSC is in production in Toronto at Pinewood Studios Toronto. I wonder how long of a contract they have? Also productions in Canada I believe have some sort of requirements to be broadcast in Canada on regional/nationwide channels for original productions so since Star Trek DSC will broadcast in Canada where Space and Z will carry the series in English and French respectively how would this be affected?
 
The cost of taking advantage of this tax credit most likely would not be worth the money spent by relocating. They've invested too much in set construction to up and move back to Hollywood. This isn't like Supergirl where the Catco office and Kara apartment sets could easily be rebuilt in Canada. Starship sets are far more exotic and dismantling them to move home would also cost a bloody fortune.

No need to relocate now...if this were available a year ago before production commenced then staying in LA might have been an option.
 
The Canadian Dollar is weaker than the US Dollar. I have to wonder if that could impact it too. I am sure Ontario also has its own tax credit system they could also benefit from.
 
As others have stated it would not be worth the cost, but beyond that where would they go? Unless something has changed in the last 6 month Hollywood sound stages are filled to the brim.
 
Does Canada still have that edict that 2 minutes of every hour be devoted to "Canadian content"? Like Bob and Doug McKenzie on SCTV?
 
I'd say it depends on the size/amount of the tax credit, and if it eliminates/lowers any other production related cost involved with filming in Canada. It's NOT that hard to move standing sets IF there's stage space at Paramount Studios proper - they do it all the time.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
Well, for starters, there'd be less Canadian Forest Planet. :lol:
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