Production in Los Angeles continued to be anemic over the last three months, falling below the level of activity recorded during the 2023 writers and actors strikes.

The decline in location shoots was led by a sharp drop in reality TV production, which recorded its second-worst quarter in the last 15 years.

Any effects of the massive expansion of the California film and TV tax credit, which became law on July 1, have yet to show up in the production data. The total number of TV, film and commercial location shoot days fell to 2,631 for the quarter ending Sept. 30, according to FilmLA, which processes permits for most of the region.

That’s 145 fewer days than the fourth quarter of 2023, when SAG-AFTRA was on strike, which represented the previous low point since the pandemic.

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