May 4, 2026 "‘Tracker’ Relocating To Los Angeles For Season 4 With $48M California Tax Credit": Today I found this article by Nellie Andreeva on Deadline:
EXCLUSIVE: One of the biggest shows on television is relocating to Los Angeles with the biggest California tax credit for a series to date.
CBS‘ Tracker, starring Justin Hartley, will move from Vancouver, where the first three seasons were shot.
Its studio 20th Television is currently locking down production facilities in and around L.A.,
with filming on Season 4 slated to begin in late June.
While the relocation decision was just recently finalized, it had been in the works for awhile.
It was telegraphed when the California Film Commission in March
unveiled the latest round of TV tax credits
to 16 new and returning series and pilots
under the state’s $750 million incentives program.
There was one relocating show on the list, code named “Untitled Disney Entertainment Television Project 13,” which was awarded an eye-popping $48M on $129M in qualified expenditures.
(20th Television is part of Disney Television Studios, itself a division of DET.)
Deadline can reveal that the show is Tracker, 20th Television’s biggest series to be lured back to California so far.
Its $48M tax credit eclipses
the $42M handed to Season 3 of Amazon’s Fallout,
which relocated from New York to Los Angeles with a tax credit for Season 2,
and the $42.8M given to another 20th Television series, Dan Fogelman’s upcoming NFL drama The Land.
“I’m proud of what we built in Vancouver.
I’m also very excited we’re bringing Tracker to L.A.,”
star and executive producer Hartley said.
“I’m looking forward to continuing to tell these stories alongside the new, fresh places we’ll be heading to next.
Most importantly, I want to thank the fans for showing up for us every step of the way.
We couldn’t do this without you.”
By its nature — Tracker stars Hartley as a lone-wolf survivalist who tracks down people across the U.S. for reward money — the action drama is shot primarily on location in the wilderness.
A move to California would provide the series with a change of scenery
and an opportunity to explore new locales spanning
a coastline,
mountains
and desert.
“Location is a huge part of the storytelling on Tracker,”
executive producer and showrunner Elwood Reid said.
“We’re so grateful to the crew and people of Vancouver who made the first three seasons of this hit drama possible,
and are simultaneously thrilled to be able to kick off the fourth season of Tracker by filming in Los Angeles,
thanks to the tax incentive program that supports bringing production back to California.”
Tracker‘s remote, rural locations setting would allow the series to take full advantage of the California incentives.
TV shows can earn an additional 5% tax credit bonus
— on top of the 35% base credit
— for qualified expenditures incurred outside the L.A. 30-mile zone
that covers the Greater Los Angeles area and surrounding communities.
Tax credits for relocating big-scale series like Tracker
are being awarded for their projected outsized economic effect,
creating jobs for L.A.-based crews
and boosting auxiliary local businesses which have been hit hard by runaway production.
For its first two and a half seasons, Tracker was the most watched broadcast series.
It is currently No.2 behind CBS’ new breakout drama, Marshals,
with 16.4M Live+28 multiplatform viewers in the U.S..
It ranks No.7 among all series
— network and streaming ones
— over the 2025-26 broadcast season.
Based on the bestselling novel The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver, Tracker is set to return in the fall for its fourth season. Reid and Hartley executive produce with Ken Olin, Connie Dolphin, Sharon Lee Watson and Alex Katsnelson.
https://deadline.com/2026/05/tracker-relocating-los-angeles-season-4-tax-credit-1236879144/
Oct. 17, 2026 My opinion: I just watched the season 4 premiere today. It was average.
Jun. 2, 2026 "‘The Hunting Party’ Canceled By NBC After 2 Seasons, Will Be Shopped": Today I found this article by Nellie Andreeva on Deadline:
The Hunting Party took the scenic route but arrived at the same destination as fellow sophomore NBC drama series Brilliant Minds: a cancellation after two seasons.
NBC sibling Universal Television, the studio behind the crime drama procedural starring Melissa Roxburgh, is expected to shop it to other outlets. Netflix, which currently licenses the show in the U.S., would be a logical outreach.
The Hunting Party, created by JJ Bailey, was the last 2025-26 broadcast series whose fate had not been determined.
NBC postponed the decision until after the upfronts as its executives took extra time to evaluate the show’s performance on both linear and streaming.
The odds for a series left in limbo after the networks’ lineups for the following season have been locked are always long.
Based solely on The Hunting Party’s middling linear performance,
the drama likely would’ve been a goner a month ago.
Jeff Bader, NBCUniversal’s President of Program Planning Strategy, was pretty frank about its delivery when explaining the decision to replace The Hunting Party,
which aired in the Thursday 10 p.m. time period behind Law & Order: SVU this season,
with the mothership Law & Order next fall.
“We’re looking for places where we can grow the network, and that is a time period where we think we can do better,” he told Deadline last month.
“Nothing negative about Hunting Party, but for our linear schedule, we absolutely need to try and do a little bit better there.”
However, the drama, about a team tasked with tracking down and capturing dangerous killers has done better on streaming, which prolonged its shelf life.
The Hunting Party got a shot in the arm when its first season launched on Netflix in the U.S. in February to strong viewership.
The exposure did not result in meaningful linear ratings gains on NBC for Season 2; they remained relatively flat throughout the season.
But I hear there has been a halo effect on Peacock, where the series already had been a solid performer.
(Netflix’s license fee as well as the show’s international sales also are bringing in revenue, which was likely weighed in against its soft linear ratings.)
With NBC and Peacock under the same programming leadership,
both a third season on the broadcast network and a switch to The Hunting Party becoming a Peacock original were considered,
sources said. In the end, after some number-crunching, neither option panned out.
NBC’s final 2026-27 tally is four new scripted series
— dramas
The Rockford Files
and Line of Fire
and comedies
Sunset P.I.
and Newlyweds
— and three cancellations
“Honestly, we have a very, very tight schedule,” Bader said last month.
“Because we have a lot of sports,
for our entertainment time periods,
we had to actually give up on some shows that we really love
to make room to launch our future potential hits.
So we made room for four,
we could have done with less,
very hard for us to do more.”
mid -season 2025 TV show reviews
My week:
Sun. Oct. 18, 2026:
Karen I, Scarborough, Ontario, would like to know:
On average, how many hours of television do you watch per day?
1-3 hours
54.72% (2062)
More than 3 hours
34.47% (1299)
None
10.80% (407)
My opinion: 1-3 hrs. I usually watch 1 hr of TV.
Sat. Oct. 17, 2026 Windy weather: It was so windy, you can see the tree branches moving and all these leaves blowing.
Neighborhood: This metal fence around a home construction was blown over.
I saw some street signs and pylons down.
Haircut: I went to Chinatown to get my haircut. I get one every 6 months. I went there, and the wind had knocked out the electricity of the salon.
At least there was running water to wash my hair. She cut my hair while there was still some daylight to see.
Tues. Oct. 20, 2026 "Alberta premier pledges to honour 'remain' vote, won't have 2nd referendum on separation":
- Albertans have voted to stay in Canada, CBC News projects, rejecting the proposal to begin the separation process.
- More than 75 per cent of voters want to remain part of the country, according to the latest results.
My opinion: I voted for Alberta to stay in Canada. So did my little brother. I was very happy that Alberta is staying in Canada.
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