Posted on 01/12/2019 8:39:19 AM PST by EdnaMode
Netflix has canceled plans to produce an upcoming series titled “OBX” in North Carolina after lingering concerns about the state’s trans bathroom law, a person familiar with the matter told TheWrap Friday. The network instead plans to host production in neighboring South Carolina, in a decision that was described as “final.”
The series has not been officially announced by Netflix and the company declined to comment on the matter. TheWrap has confirmed that 10 episodes of the show have already been picked up by the network and shooting is expected to begin in the spring.
The show is a creation of Jonas Pate, a resident of Wilmington, North Carolina, and chronicles the lives of four teenagers struggling through a hurricane in a fictionalized Outer Banks town.
The story was first reported by North Carolina’s local Wilmington Star News, which said that even though the bathroom bill was repealed back in March 2017, some elements left in place proved an insurmountable obstacle for Netflix.
“Pate said one specific piece of HB142 — a clause forbidding municipalities from passing an ordinance excluding them from the bill’s restrictions — is a sticking point for Netflix, one of the largest and most influential media companies in the world,” the paper reported. The clause expires on Dec. 1, 2020, but Pate said if state legislators can push for an immediate sunset, he thinks Netflix could reconsider bringing the show and dozens of crew positions to Wilmington.
The original law passed by the North Carolina’s state legislature in March 2016 forbid individuals from using public restrooms not in line with their sex assigned at birth. The statute proved extraordinarily divisive and resulted in a raft of bad publicity for the state and lost business opportunities. That same year, more than a dozen states introduced similar bills according to CBS News.
The law was eventually repealed by the Republican dominated legislature after reports — like this one from the Associated Press — showed the state stood to lose billions of dollars in revenue if it remained on the books. The decision from Netflix, however, indicates that the law’s lingering effects continue to have an economic impact in 2019.
I’ve been vacationing in obx for 25 years. I’ve visited literally over 100 times and love it. The locals are mostly conservative blue collar. Contractors, lawn maintenance etc. Nice people. The big money left has been infecting the place for years. In 08 and 12 there were Obama signs everywhere.
I hope to finally go there this year.
Enact a 5000% state tax on Netflix.
..” Netflix...They are a Democrat propagandist front”..
Oh my gosh yes.....you can tell the Obama’s have had their hands in that pie just in the selection field.....you can’t find anything that isn’t about social justice in their documentaries and their movies are rank with gays..
Heck there are so many Asians and other nationalities in their scripts, to fill their quota’s of ‘diversity’, that the plots are completely lost trying to give them all lines to speak, and the movies just drag like a boulder being pulled up a hill!
Netflix is determined to produce itself out of business.
The tattooed, bearded woman in my post above would be in compliance with North Carolina state law if she followed your presumably female grandchildren into the women's bathroom.
I quit Netflix when they hire Obama and I have not missed it a bit.
“I hope to finally go there this year.”
...you’ll love it! Duck, Southern Shores, Kitty Hawk are the places I frequent and we always have a great time!
I thought that law had been overturned by the new Democrat Gov.
A former co-irker who went there often told me there were places to run jeeps and the like on the beaches.
If so, is that still true?
I’d consider hauling my old Willys out there.
Yep! Go to the very end of Corolla to “Corova”. https://www.outerbanks.com/carova.html
Much appreciated.
No rush to go. The old Willys has a ways to go mechanically.
I got a small setback this morning. The aftermarket alternator has a bad bearing. Hand spin it and hear it squeal.
It’s a one wire and I saw one on Amazon that looks externally similar. Besides the now bad alternator really didn’t have enough amps and the pulley wasn’t quite right. It was a make it work and it lasted a few years. Most of it sitting.
Netflix: Now just another product of Obama’s bunghole.
Send the “R’s” Monopoly money, fake money for fake Republicans. I do it regularly.
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