Nine shows, including 'Clueless' sequel, receive state tax credit

Nine tv shows, including a sequel to the 1995 deed “Clueless,” person been awarded a taxation recognition for filming successful the Golden State, according to the California Film Commission.

Most of the shows chosen for a accumulation inducement are successful their archetypal season, specified arsenic Universal Television’s “Newlyweds,” a caller bid starring Jamie Lee Curtis that volition movie 26 days successful Los Angeles and received a recognition of $5.8 million.

The largest recognition of $45.1 cardinal went to a new, untitled scripted bid from Disney Entertainment Television, which volition movie 142 days successful California, astir of which are successful Los Angeles, according to the state’s movie commission.

Other recipients see Paramount Television Studios’ “Ascent,” which stars Viola Davis ($21 million), Universal Television’s “The Rockford Files” reboot ($21 million) and play 2 of Sony Pictures Television’s “S.W.A.T. Exiles” ($16.2 million). The “Clueless” sequel, which volition spot histrion Alicia Silverstone reprise her relation arsenic Cher, was awarded a $16.3 cardinal credit.

“I’m truthful grateful that ‘Clueless’ gets to archer Cher’s adjacent section successful the metropolis wherever her communicative began,” Silverstone said successful a statement. “Los Angeles has been done truthful overmuch implicit the past respective years, but the metropolis is resilient. You simply can’t recreate this metropolis anyplace else, and I’m excited to bring Cher home.”

In total, the 9 productions are expected to relationship for much than 1,000 sprout days successful California and effect successful jobs for 3,000 formed and unit members, arsenic good arsenic 25,000 inheritance actors, the California Film Commission said. The shows are acceptable to make astir $608 cardinal successful nonstop accumulation spending successful state.