What’s Filming in Los Angeles 2026
Los Angeles is getting its cameras back — though not its swagger, at least not yet.
After two battered years of contraction, strike aftershocks and shrinking episode orders, California is trying to turn a subsidy program into an industrial policy. FilmLA said Greater Los Angeles finished 2025 down 16.1 percent in on-location production, and certified soundstage occupancy slid to 63 percent in 2024, far below the levels the region sustained for much of the previous decade.
That is the backdrop for this new Los Angeles filming slate: not a victory lap, but a recovery plan. California’s Film and Television Tax Credit Program 4.0 now runs at $750 million a year through June 2030, and emergency regulations that took effect on Jan. 2 expanded eligibility to include animated series, animated films and large-scale competition shows. The state has been explicit about the point of all this: keep productions, crews and payroll in California before they migrate elsewhere. (California Film Commission)
The broader momentum is real, even if the rebound is incomplete. On its current homepage, the California Film Commission says the first three rounds of Program 4.0 have already approved 39 television series and 52 feature films, projects expected to generate 3,793 filming days and an estimated $3.7 billion in economic activity. (California Film Commission)
Based on the latest reports, this latest television round tells a clear story about what Hollywood is trying to hold onto: returning dramas, streaming comedies, animation, pilots and even competition programming. The 16 projects in your list add up to 1,238 California filming days, 1,194 cast hires, 3,399 crew hires and 50,687 background-performer workdays. Together they represent about $871.8 million in qualified expenditures and roughly $296.3 million in allocated tax credits, led by an untitled relocating 20th Television project, Giant, High Potential and The Pitt.
What makes the lineup feel current, rather than merely bureaucratic, is how many of these shows are already moving in public view. HBO Max renewed The Pitt for a third season in January. HBO’s Steve Carell comedy Rooster debuted this month. Netflix has begun promoting Mark Rober’s family competition series SCHOOLED!, while Adult Swim’s President Curtis gives the tax-credit program one of its first visible animation-era beneficiaries. (Pressroom)
The point, then, is bigger than a credits list. What’s filming in Los Angeles in 2026 is also what California is still willing to fight for: not just prestige, but infrastructure; not just stars, but electricians, editors, drivers, set dressers, costume crews and the working ecosystem that made the city synonymous with the business in the first place. The comeback is not complete. But it is, unmistakably, onstage.
16 TV Shows and Movies Filming in Los Angeles 2026
Absolutely — here’s a clean, publication-ready set of project descriptions. For the titles still listed under working names in your chart, I’ve kept the language careful and broad, because several of them do not yet have verified public loglines. California’s March 18 announcement confirms this round includes a mix of new, returning, relocating, animated, competition and soundstage-based projects. (California Film Commission)
- A Hundred Percent S1 — A Netflix comedy about a friend group working inside the “Thought Leader industrial complex,” selling self-improvement through books, podcasts and highly curated lifestyles while their own personal lives are much messier than their brands. (The Futon Critic)
- Apple Studios Untitled Series IV — Still under wraps publicly. For now, the safest description is an untitled Apple scripted series filming in Los Angeles.
- Giant — A new scripted series filming under the title Giant, but no verified public synopsis appears to have been released yet.
- High Potential S3 — ABC’s crime dramedy about Morgan, a single mother with an exceptional mind whose instinct for solving crimes pulls her into an unlikely partnership with a by-the-book detective. (ABC)
- How to Survive Without Me S1 — A family drama centered on the De Angelis family after the death of its matriarch, Beverly, as a widower and his adult children struggle to stay connected and follow the guidance she seems to leave behind. (TheWrap)
- I Love LA S2 — Rachel Sennott’s HBO comedy about an ambitious friend group trying to navigate work, romance and status anxiety in Los Angeles. (Pressroom)
- I Suck at Girls S1 — A coming-of-age comedy based on Justin Halpern’s memoir, following awkward high school sophomores as they stumble through teenage romance, identity and the humiliations of growing up. (The Futon Critic)
- President Curtis S2 — An adult animated Rick and Morty spinoff following President Andre Curtis and his eccentric staff as they deal with interdimensional diplomacy, paranormal threats and crises Rick Sanchez cannot be bothered with. (Pressroom)
- Rooster S2 — HBO’s college-set comedy centered on an author and his complicated relationship with his daughter, with family tension and campus life driving the story. (Pressroom)
- The Pitt S3 — A medical drama that examines the pressures facing health care workers through the staff of a modern Pittsburgh hospital, with each episode structured around an hour of an emergency-room shift. (Pressroom)
- Unt. DET Project 13 — A relocating 20th Television scripted series whose title and story details have not yet been publicly revealed. California’s announcement notes that this round includes one major relocating series expected to bring especially large spending back into the state. (California Film Commission)
- Unt. DET Project 14 — A new 20th Television animation project that remains under wraps publicly.
- Unt. DET Project 15 — A new 20th Television scripted series still being kept under its working title.
- Unt. DET Project 16 — A returning ABC Signature scripted series whose public-facing title has not yet been confirmed in the materials tied to this allocation.
- Unt. Mark Rober Series S1 — Publicly promoted as SCHOOLED!, this Netflix competition series from Mark Rober and Jimmy Kimmel is designed to spotlight the next generation of inventors, makers and engineers. (Netflix)
- Unt. Schaffer Comedy — A new comedy pilot or early-stage comedy project that California’s announcement specifically names as one of the new projects in this round, but without a verified public plot description yet. (California Film Commission)
If you want this next as a polished article section, I’d format it as “What Each L.A. Project Is About” with tighter, more magazine-style blurbs.
