One of the key changes within the tax credit is around labour costs, including in the labour cost a lot of the development work that goes into launching a production in the first place.
You can have a period of time now of up to two years before the production begins when work is done trying to develop the project, write scripts, and sell it. If you look at the business, for every successful show—and that is measured by the ability to sell to a network or launch a film in the theatres—you can have anywhere from 15 tries before you get something. This is the same in Hollywood as well.
A lot of production money has been spent on the front end in development costs, and this allows more opportunity to hire the writers who are really critical in designing the idea in the first place.