According to Deadline, Season Two production for Prime Video‘s Mr. & Mrs. Smith is moving to the west coast. The second season will be filmed in Los Angeles County, meanwhile exact production details are still being figured out.

Gov. Gavin Newsom disclosed the series would be relocating to California on Wednesday while commending the recently approved $750M in funding for the state’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program. The majority of Season One of the series was previously filmed in New York with a few locations in Italy, such as the Italian Dolomites and Lake Como, Deadline notes.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith was granted an incentive within the last three cycles, but it is still not clearly listed on the list of approved projects by the California Film Commission. Deadline adds that sometimes, high-profile productions can be listed under different, more discreet names. 

The California production community has been sounding the alarm on runaway production for several years, meanwhile calls for action reached enormous levels earlier this year with the horrific Los Angeles fires. This was preceded by difficult years for the industry as a result of coronavirus-related production shut downs and 2023 dual strikes, Deadline notes. 

Deadline elaborates that California is competing with other states like New York, which just set aside even more money to its own tax credit program, in addition to international territories whose incentives have lured production away from the Golden State. 

This relocation for Mr. & Mrs. Smith appears to be a win for Newsom and the California film and television industry, because it hints that big budget productions would actually be interested in shooting in the state when the right incentives are in place. This series joins Prime Video’s Fallout as two of the highest profile series to move production back to California recently, as mentioned by Deadline.

Even though production in California has been lacking, a new promising slate of television productions is coming up throughout the state, including Hulu’s Paradise, HBO Max’s The Pitt, and CBS’ NCIS: Origins, Deadline says. 

Mr. and Mrs Smith was created by Donald Glover (Atlanta, Community) and Francesca Sloane (Atlanta, Fargo), and Season One follows two lonely strangers (Glover, Maya Erskine) who have to act as a married couple as they both begin new careers as spies. The take on new aliases, Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Smith, hence the series title, according to Deadline. Now hitched, John and Jane must figure out a high-risk mission every week while also facing a new relationship milestone. Their cover story becomes even more convoluted when they catch real feelings for each other, bringing to question what is riskier, espionage or marriage? 

There will be new leads in Season Two, played by Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets, Heretic) and Mark Eydelshteyn (Anora, The Land of Sasha). Sloane returns as executive producer and showrunner, and Glover is back as executive producer. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is produced by Amazon MGM Studios and New Regency, Deadline adds.