Crony capitalism exudes FROM the entertainment industry. .................
Was overall a great show. The scenario this season of the attacks on the gay country star were so poor though. So stereotypical of Hollywood writer ignorance. The situation was actually fair game, but they brought on this hate spewing ‘conservative’ talking head as an antagonist and it was so phony.
“Second, the show “Nashville” followed the example of many corporations across the United States in holding the state that gave it money hostage. Once the state and city of Nashville gave the show millions in taxpayer dollars, the show’s producers threatened to leave Nashville and film in Austin, Texas, if we didn’t pony up more taxpayer money. This is just legalized blackmail”
Blackmail??!?! Spare me the hysterics. How about this - JUST SAY NO!!!
Even on FR, will the whining never end??
The subsidy money spent on the TV show Nashville likely had the highest rate of return for any such money ever spent in Television history.
The tourism boom in this city is literally out of control, and the TV show coincided precisely with the launch of that boom. Unlike the idiotic convention center that sits lonely and unused, the TV show was an example of a government program that went right.
I never heard of the show until it was cancelled. I never, ever watch any of the alphabet networks.
This argument is ridiculous.
Tax money Nashville got before the show ran: $0
Assuming $45M was their entire tax debt, taxes they got while the show ran: $0
Tax money they will get now that the show is cancelled: $0
So, how did the city or state “lose money?” They may have lost the opportunity to make tax money, but probably would not have since the show would not have been done without the tax break.
And, the show did purchase local resources (food, hotels, vehicles rentals, etc.) and pay some local actors who most certainly paid taxes.
But, to say that it “cost” the city or state money is poppycock.
Old saying: You can’t lose what you never had.
Well just damn. I enjoyed the show except for the idiotic seemingly mandatory gay plotline. Everything is steeped in political agendas these days. I stupidly thought it was “just” a TV show. Now I find out it’s wallowing in taxpayer subsidies?? Ridiculous.
bttt
The show held my interest for about 1 1/2 seasons then meh. Probably for no other reason than I enjoyed Conne Britton in Friday Night Lights, and that the Actors of Nashville actually sang their own songs. Hopefully the cancellation doesnt push Hayden Panettiere over the edge, she was just committed for post partum / bi-polar something or another.
Right before the November election, get ready for:
CSI:GOP - An investigating unit created to expose the crimes of the EEEVILL Republicans , or they just make $h!t up and arrest them.
Blindspot - The FBI struggles to find evidence of crimes committed by "An Energetic and Dynamic Female Presidential Candidate" but fails to do so.
Once Upon a Time - There used to be TV shows that did NOT have a gay character in it.
Blacklist - There used to be TV shows that did NOT have, as the "person in charge", an African-american.
Law & Order - A fictional country where the government follows all of the laws of it's founding document.