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\n\t\u201cPalm Royale<\/a>\u201d creator Abe Sylvia<\/a> and \u201cHigh Potential\u201d producers Drew Goddard and Sarah Esber accepted Commitment to California Awards at the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce<\/a> 2025 Entertainment Industry Conference, presented by Variety. In celebrating their shows, which both shoot in Los Angeles, Sylvia remarked to the room full of executives: \u201cDo not underestimate the power of telling an A-List actor that they get to sleep in their own bed when they wrap.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe conference, which took place in Hollywood on the morning of Dec. 4, brought producers, stakeholders and government liaisons together to champion and discuss the entertainment industry in California. The Commitment to California Awards honored its recipients, whose productions have remained loyal to the Golden State as the filmmaking capital of the world.<\/p>\n \n\tThough \u201cPalm Royale\u201d is set in Florida, it embraces the old Hollywood style of using studio soundstages and Los Angeles\u2019 diverse scenery to recreate Palm Beach circa 1969. The Apple TV series\u2019 star Josh Lucas presented Sylvia with the award, stating that \u201cOne of the most magical elements of our show is the walk to set, wandering through the legendary back lots of Warner Brothers and Paramount. As you approach our stages, you often find yourself surrounded by gaggles of extras, extravagantly dressed as jellyfish astronauts and even Richard Nixon lookalikes, hanging around in amazing period costumes. The walk to Stage 30 is how I always imagined Hollywood: dancers stretch and rehearse; a golf cart zips by stuffed with glittering, jeweled costumes; a lone trumpeter warms up quietly as Kristen Wiig and Ricky Martin run lines standing outside; and there at the craft service table, you often find Carol Burnett grazing on carrots.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSylvia echoed Lucas\u2019 sense of nostalgia and wonder at the show, but expanded it to stress that the greatest benefit of working in Hollywood is the people. Shooting in the heart of the entertainment industry, Sylvia said, \u201cYou get to hire your favorite makeup and hair people who are deeply integral to your process, because you don\u2019t have to beg the studio to pay for their travel. You get your favorite costumer who\u2019s probably your BFF. Your life doesn\u2019t have to be completely disrupted by your work. So as much as the thrill of this business is about running away with the circus, the beauty of our show is that we are a family and I owe that to the fact that we shoot here in Hollywood, home to the greatest artists in the world of entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tGoddard and Esber also gave California its flowers, as \u201cHigh Potential\u201d is an Hollywood production through and through. The ABC crime dramedy focuses on a cleaning woman (Kaitlin Olson) who becomes a consultant for the LAPD. The plots unfold on the streets of Los Angeles, literally, as Goddard said the city is \u201clike 50 cities put together and its unique from street to street. That\u2019s what we wanted to show with \u2018High Potential.\u2019 We wanted to show the diverse amount of resources we have. It\u2019s not just in the locations. It\u2019s not just in the businesses. It\u2019s in the streets and the people. That\u2019s what Los Angeles is.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe conference also included remarks from Hollywood Chamber of Commerce CEO Steve Nissen and legislative action committee head Pamela Marcello, a keynote conversation with Michelle Khare of the YouTube series \u201cChallenge Accepted\u201d and a panel on the future of the entertainment industry with Warner Bros Discovery president of development and production Jesse Ehrman, Blumhouse president of Television Melissa Aouate, UTA Independent Film Group Partner Rena Ronson, 3 Arts Entertainment Partner Jermaine Johnson and Roku Head of Content Lisa Holme.<\/p>\n