Justin Hartley broke the silence on his hit show TrackerThe biggest migration change of season 4.
“In terms of tone and character, I don’t think it will affect the show at all,” Hartley said Wrapping up Monday, May 25. “Our show is a road show. Our character travels from town to town across the United States of America and meets people from all walks of life and helps them. These strangers become his family in a way.”
The actor expressed his happiness about moving to Los Angeles.
“To be able to shoot in a different location gives us different locations, we’re able to go places – New York, DC, the desert, Texas, the beach,” Hartley noted. “It just opens up our world about the world, which is the main character of our show.”
Despite the change, Hartley expressed gratitude for the show’s time in Canada.
“We created a wonderful, wonderful show and we did it in Vancouver for the first three years. Obviously, as things go, the show has to evolve,” he added. “We don’t really like to do something just because we want to do it, I want to push the envelope and I want it to be different, so we’re excited. It’s going to be great for the show and the audience.”
Based on Jeffery Deavera novel Never Game, Tracker follows Hartley’s Colter across the country as he helps find missing people and solve mysterious cases. After spending three seasons filming in Vancouver, news broke in May that Tracker had been awarded $48 million with $129 million in eligible costs, prompting his departure.
Tracker It is the largest 20th Television series to be brought back to California with the help of tax credits. Before that, Prime Video It falls moved from New York to Los Angeles, and Dan Fogelman’s upcoming NFL drama, The countryhe was given a $42.8 million tax credit.
“I’m proud of what we’ve built in Vancouver. I’m very excited that we’re bringing Tracker to LA,” Hartley said in a statement at the time. “I look forward to continuing to tell these stories and the new places we will go. Most importantly, I want to thank the fans for always coming to us. We couldn’t do this without you.”
TV shows can get an additional 5 percent tax credit bonus — on top of the basic 35 percent credit — for qualifying expenses incurred outside a 30-mile area that includes the Greater Los Angeles area and surrounding communities, according to the deadline.
Relocation tax credits are awarded at fairs because of their perceived large economic impact, and the creation of jobs for Los Angeles-based workers and local businesses that are boosted by returning manufacturing.
“Location is a huge part of the storytelling in Tracker,” the showrunner said Elwood Reid he told Deadline. “We’re so grateful to the crew and people of Vancouver who made the first three seasons of this hit drama possible, and we’re excited at the same time to be able to start the fourth season of Tracker by filming in Los Angeles, thanks to a tax incentive program that supports bringing the production back to California.”
Tracker renewed for season 4 and airing on Paramount+.
