{"id":2036828,"date":"2025-09-20T11:09:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T11:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2036828"},"modified":"2025-09-20T11:09:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T11:09:48","slug":"how-a-top-hollywood-producer-refused-to-abandon-l-a-after-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-a-top-hollywood-producer-refused-to-abandon-l-a-after-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"How a top Hollywood producer refused to abandon L.A. after fires"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Filming was about to start on David E. Kelley’s Apple TV+ series “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” in early January when the wildfires hit the Los Angeles area, devastating Pacific Palisades and Altadena<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Crew members lost their homes or were dealing with severe smoke damage. Others on the show took people who were displaced into their houses.<\/p>\n

To add to the uncertainty, the series was still waiting to hear whether it would receive a state film and television tax credit.<\/p>\n

It was time for a decision, Kelley and his fellow producers thought. Should they play it safe and relocate to a cheaper filming locale, such as New Mexico or Vancouver, to ensure they had the budget to film the pivotal mid-season finale in Las Vegas?<\/p>\n

They took a gamble and decided to stay in California. The bet paid off. “Margo” got a tax credit of about $1.2 million per episode, and the show was able to shoot both in the Los Angeles area and travel to Las Vegas for four days of filming.<\/p>\n

“The rest of the story is a California story,” said Matthew Tinker, president of David E. Kelley Productions. “It’s really magical to leave L.A., go to Vegas and then come back, and it gives the show a huge production value that otherwise, we wouldn’t have had.”<\/p>\n

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