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Without tax incentives from Utah, BYUtv moves ‘Dwight in Shining Armor’ production to Georgia

Filming is underway on 20 more episodes of BYUtv’s “Dwight in Shining Armor,” but the production has left Utah and moved to Georgia.

The first 20 episodes of the fantasy/comedy/adventure series were produced in West Valley City, but Utah’s limited tax incentives for film and television production prompted the decision to move the series to the Atlanta area.

Utah’s annual budget for tax incentives is about $9 million; in 2017, Georgia’s incentives — which range from 20% to 30% of production costs — exceeded $800 million. “Dwight” was unable to secure incentives for new episodes, and those incentives “dramatically offset” BYUtv’s “limited budgets,” according BYUtv managing director Michael Dunn, making them “critical for the longterm viability of a series.