Odd Lots · Friday, September 25, 2026
Production for TV shows, including comedies and game shows, is increasingly moving from Los Angeles to international locations like Dublin, Ireland, and Vancouver. This shift is primarily driven by tax incentives and labor costs, leading to a 'race to the bottom' across the country as states and countries compete for filming projects.
“If you see a Fox game show... Or a Fox studio comedy, like a single cam or a multi-cam comedy. You're in Dublin. You are watching a show that is filmed in Dublin.”
“It's a tax and labor thing yeah wow um and and meanwhile we have tons of studio space here so you talk about that 2016 peak yeah in shoot days that's when a lot of studio space started to get financed and so right down the street from here there a giant complex right on the on the santa monica and the 101 that you saw starting to get built around like 2019 or so that's when it got financed there was a gigantic hole in the ground for for a really long time and now it is done and And the demand is not exactly what it was.”