{"id":652465,"date":"2026-05-06T22:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652465\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:44:12","slug":"hit-tv-show-tracker-leaves-b-c-for-l-a-due-to-bigger-tax-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652465\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit TV show \u2018Tracker\u2019 leaves B.C. for L.A. due to bigger tax credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>In a blow to the B.C. film industry, the hit TV show Tracker will be relocating to <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles<\/a> for its fourth season, meaning hundreds of jobs in the province will be lost.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The show starring Justin Hartley as a survivalist who finds missing people for money has been lured away from Vancouver by a $48 million U.S. tax credit.<\/p>\n<p>California Gov. Gavin Newsom expanded the state\u2019s Film and TV Tax Credit Program on July 1, 2025, to $750 million annually through June 2030.<\/p>\n<p>On May 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CAgovernor\/posts\/with-support-from-the-california-film-commission-tax-credit-los-angeles-producti\/1577782740372252\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Newsom posted on Facebook<\/a> that productions in Los Angeles are up 10 per cent since last fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re bringing film and TV shoots back home, while supporting workers and small businesses right here in the Golden State,\u201d Newsom wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Tracker, which also airs on Global TV, was the network\u2019s most-watched broadcast show for its first two-and-a-half seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: '\u2018We love Canada!\u2019 Adam Sandler says Happy Gilmore 2 cast fell in love with BC'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TMS_HAPPY_GILMORE_2_JUNKET_STILL.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t5:46<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u2018We love Canada!\u2019 Adam Sandler says Happy Gilmore 2 cast fell in love with BC\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Entertainment<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just the jobs,\u201d Shawn Williamson with BrightLight Pictures said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the overall economic impact within the city and the province, because there are people not in our industry, who benefit and receive, you know, money and support that comes from the show,\u201d he said, noting it benefits hotels, taxis, restaurants, lumber and tourism. \u201cPeople travel to see where the shows are shot, so there are all kinds of spin-off benefits that we lose every time a show leaves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gov.bc.ca\/releases\/2024FIN0049-001652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">B.C.\u2019s Film and Television Tax Credit<\/a> was increased at the end of 2024, with the Film Incentive BC (FIBC) tax credit increased from 35 to 36 per cent and the production services tax credit (PSTC) increased from 28 per cent to 36 per cent for productions with principal photography starting on or after Jan. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In addition, projects with B.C. production costs of greater than $200 million receive a two per cent bonus.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size In a blow to the B.C. film industry, the hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8337,49,48,75,1522],"class_list":["post-652465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bc-film-industry","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}