After spending weeks on tenterhooks over the status of New York’s endangered production tax credit, Fox has decided to pull up stakes and relocate production of its hit frosh series “Fringe” to Vancouver.
The show, which reportedly spent $4 million an episode in recession-pummeled New York, originally relocated from Toronto to Long Island’s Silvercup Studios specifically to take advantage of the Empire State’s much-publicized incentives. It applied too late, unfortunately. The $515 million set aside to expand the popular tax program and extend it into 2013 had dried up by the beginning of this year.
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“In this challenging and uncertain economic environment, we have made the very difficult decision to move the production of ‘Fringe’ from New York to Canada in the event the series is renewed for a second season,” said a Warner Bros. Television spokesman. “We are deeply indebted to the talented New York production crew that helped bring the first season of ‘Fringe’ to life, and we thank them for their invaluable contributions to the show’s success -read the full story on Variety.com
From Toronto, to New York to Vancouver, but Joshua Jackson who plays Peter Bishop should be happy, he's from Vancouver.
its ganna get renewed
Not really a surprise
Oh no… this happened to Seaquest and look how that show went.
I’m so hap, hap, happy! I live in Vancouver! I love this show and think that it’s clever, engaging, riveting, gory and terrific! Renew, please!
It is definitely going to be renewed, or I doubt Warner Brothers would’ve issued any kind of a press release about the move.
X-Files filmed multiple seasons in Vancouver as well…. lol
Hey, this is a case where X-Files comparison applies quite well – I believe they filmed the first few seasons of X-Files in Vancouver?
Plus a bit of a ForEx bonus too, the US$ has improved sustantially vs. the CAN$ recently.
Actually I think X-Files filmed like 4-5 seasons in Vancouver.
Cookson is correct. 1993-98 X-files filming was in Vancouver. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-files
i wonder if there will be cast shakeups?? some ny based actors won’t move
Only another six weeks or so until we get new episodes! It’s a shame the momentum it built up to at the end of last episode will be long gone, and six weeks is far off.
carl, I’d be surprised if recurring actors don’t move for at least the shooting season. Regular acting jobs on primetime dramas do not grow on trees.
I can’t believe NYC lacks the moxy to keep this production in the USA. Surely Michael Bloomberg realizes the value of keeping film and tv production viable in the city that never sleeps. Vancouver natural lighting is so not NYC.
Yay, I live in Vancouver too!
A lot of stuff is filmed here.
Current TV shows include ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and ‘Smallville’. Actually, I met Angelina Jolie and actor Ed Burns because they filmed at my parents’ bookstore.
It’s more like the advertisers got screwed with the high ad rates for a show not drawing the promised viewers, and they’ve told FOX there’s no way in hell the show is getting those ad rates in the future.
Cool, I don’t know that the advertisers got screwed, but I expect “remote free TV” won’t be back in the fall. But if FOX sticks with it, I’d assume the advertisers are happy with it. In fact, I’d assume the advertisers are pretty happy with it anyway, but if running fewer commercials isn’t making FOX as much as it can make running the regular amount…
New York is an expensive place and the mayor is a tyrant. Fringe should have stayed in Canada(pretending to be Boston).
Boston has film incentives. Wouldn’t it have been nice to have a Boston show actually filmed in Boston.
I hear FOX is going to alter the Remote Free experiment a bit, but likely keep it around. The commercials are watched, so they need to push higher premiums. Advertisers are reluctant to spend more just because of the recession. It’s hard to truly gauge how successful the process could be in say a strong economy.