AMC: Daytime Confidential confirming production moving to LA

[R Sinclair]

Exactly, it's about unions -- the whole reason why primetime/cable shows film in North Carolina, Toronto, Vancouver, New Zealand. Everything is unionized. Actors, writers, technical crew. You go where you pay the least to get the most done.

[quartermainefan]

This is all such terrible news for NYC, I don't know how Mayor Bloomberg didn't try to woo ABC with incentives to stay. The tech people have lost jobs now on two soaps, the local NY acting community is devestated with two soaps no longer hiring. This all sucks.

[Jonathan]

Also, Broadway is struggling too. So you're right the whole NY acting community is in disarray.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

I hear a lot of New York shows are shifting production to studios in Connecticut, it makes you wonder why ABC didn't want to shift production of AMC to a cheaper part of the tri-state area rather than shifting it completely to another coast.

[Jonathan]

Maybe because by moving it to the left coast they could keep a careful eye on it. More micromanaging.

[SFK]

Yeah, and Y&R when you said CT I figured somewhere in Fairfield, but no, Deal or No Deal is moving all the way up to Waterford! I mean, I guess it's because I'm always running late, but for years I've wondered how people like Erika Slezak could get themselves up two hours before the crack of dawn and drive in from Long Island. I would have so lost my job, please, I'd be late if I lived on the UWS. I'm guessing Howie and the girls will be put up in hotels in the area and will shoot several eps a day like most game shows, but I couldn't see a soap going way up there. But Fairfield or Westchester in New York, sure, we've got the Metro North. And of course there's Peapack...

[Kubla Khan]

Technical directors are covered by the DGA. And so they have the option of making the move.

By crew members who automatically are losing their jobs...they are referring to people outside of what we typically think of "crew" -- stage managers, tech. directors, costume designers, etc. are safe. People like electricians (not lighting designers), prop guys, carpenters, wardrobe assistants, boom operators, who are not covered under the more "glamorous" guilds are going to get the shaft.

It seems to happen whenever a show makes a move. When GL moved further uptown a few years ago, most of these crew members got cut because of labor union rules. And when ATWT moved to Brooklyn, they lost the same kind of people (on the upside, all the displaced AW crew members got jobs again).

[baller]

a lot has to do with the tax credits that CA is offering.

[Carolyn1980]

Tongue-in-cheek post on twitter from Eden Riegel about possibly re-joining AMC now that the show is LA-bound:

"Can't join AMC. After they dump the veterans - budget for new cast is $37. They're using game show contestants."

[Southofnowhere]

It wasn't from Eden. It was from "one of the bitches" really her husband Andrew. The question was asked to one of the bitches not Eden.

Just had to make that clear so Chuck wouldn't have something else to hold agianst her.

[Carolyn1980]

Thanks for the clarification!

I don't "do" twitter, so I just assumed if it was on her update page, it was posted by her.

[quartermainefan]

Acting long ago moved to California from NY as the epicenter, but it really is sad that the culture capital of the country is losing everything. The NY soaps traditionally had better actors trained in theater, and now not only are there no more soaps, but there is barely any theater and when there is it is Chicago with Jerry Springer.

[Rhiannon]

Jerry, Maury and Steve Wilkos's shows are all moving to Stamford, CT because of monetary incentives being offered.

Out of the three I only watch Steve, and Jerry isn't even shown on any channel here anymore.

Sorry to get so off topic....

[R Sinclair]

Ew! Seriously? Of all the things to come here, it's that trash?

[JinxxAvery]

Tongue-in-cheek or just bitter that the ATM they were using for their Internet vanity project now reads "No Funds Available"?