eight-episode season come March<\/a>, the crime drama follows the powerful McLusky family as they work to keep the peace in a fictional Michigan town run by the prison industry. Season 5 marks the end of the mostly Pittsburgh-filmed show.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s bittersweet, right?\u201d Pittsburgh Film Office executive director Dawn Keezer said.\u00a0\u201cWe enjoyed that production being here. It\u2019s been a great experience working with both [101 Studios] and Paramount, and we hope we get to work with them again in the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll good things come to an end, right?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMayor of Kingstown\u201d also received tax credits for Seasons 2-4, which were filmed in Allegheny County. King Street Productions Inc. \u2014 the\u00a0company that applied to the Pennsylvania Film Production Tax Credit Program for the show \u2014\u00a0received a 25-30% tax credit based on its direct expenditures during each season\u2019s production. Almost $31 million was granted to Season 4, which completed production in the summer of 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve done a great job utilizing everything that\u2019s here,\u201d Keezer said of the show using Pittsburgh\u2019s surrounding areas as its backdrop.\u00a0\u201cThey truly make you think you\u2019re in Kingstown, right?\u201d<\/p>\n
Hopefully, Keezer said, the crime drama\u2019s success will attract other shows to the region.<\/p>\n
In addition to \u201cMayor of Kingstown,\u201d the Pennsylvania Film Office allocated roughly $6 million to Season 3 of the Netflix series\u00a0\u201cTires,\u201d for filming in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Meant to lure film, TV and commercials to Pennsylvania, the tax credit program is available to productions\u00a0spending at least 60% of their total budgets in the state. Since 2023, 135 films \u2014 which have created an estimated $1.34 billion in direct spending, nearly 40,000 jobs and around $505 million in Pennsylvania resident wages \u2014 have been approved for credits through the program, according to the Feb. 11 release.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe continued success of\u00a0\u2018Tires\u2019 and the final season for ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ highlights the confidence producers have in filming here and underscores the lasting economic impact these projects bring to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and communities across the commonwealth,\u201d Anthony Pesi, Pennsylvania film commissioner, said in the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The final season of\u00a0\u201cMayor of Kingstown\u201d is expected to have quite the impact on the Pennsylvania…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[55601,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-117043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-entertainment_news","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","11":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}