Mr Smith went to Washington a long time ago, but Mr. & Mrs. Smith are finally coming to California now. Along with the third season of blockbuster Fallout, and a second season of Netflix’s Forever, the postponed second season of the Amazon spy couple series is among the 17 shows that have been awarded tax credits by the Golden State today. Estimating a return of $1. 2 billion into the state economy from wages, taxes and other expenditures, California handed out over $313 million in incentives to the nearly dozen and a half shows to pump up production in the home of Hollywood. This is the second round of small screen awards since Gavin Newsom made official the Film and TV program’s mega-expansion to $750 million annually earlier this year. Out of this latest round, which saw emails sent from the California Film Commission to most producers and studios on November 10, the Walton Goggins-led Fallout topped the list this round with a whooping $42 million allocation. “We are so grateful to the film crews, the state legislators, and everyone who took a stand to protect the creative economy and future of California,” Fallout chief Jonathan Nolan exclaimed today of the big incentive and the push to get production back in the state. Last year, the Lisa Joy EP’d Fallout pulled in $25 million in CA tax credits for its second season as the L. A.-set post-apocalyptic drama relocated from its first season filming in New York, New Jersey and Utah to the actual City of Angels. “We are incredibly proud to be shooting here and investing that money back into the place that gave so many of us our start, and that so many of us call home,” Nolan said of Fallout, which is now a recurring show in California with this Season 3 allocation. Speaking of home, classified as a much sought-after relocating series, Mr. & Mrs. Smith picked up $31. 9 million from the state. The Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane-created Smith joins the now revealed fourth season of The Night Agent I hear. We’ll get their names and more once they’re greenlit. Still, with some TBD in the mix, this latest round is setting out to check all the boxes and hit all the high notes Sacramento, the C-suites and most importantly the below-the-line crews seek. “When we make smart investments like our film tax credit, we’re keeping talent here at home, supporting good-paying union jobs, and strengthening an industry that defines the California brand,” Gov. Newsom noted Wednesday of the newest allotment in the jobs centric program. “I’m proud to see the return of Baywatch where it belongs on sunny California shores, creating jobs and fueling the very entertainment economy that sets this state apart,” the potential 2028 POTUS candidate noted of the red swimsuit show that received a 12-episode straight-to-series order from Fox in late September. For those of you who were busy at the beach, the Pamela Anderson, David Hasselhoff, and Brooke Burns- starring Baywatch started out in SoCal, but spent its last two seasons of 1999 2001 filming in Hawaii. The return to home base, so to speak, for the now Matt Nix EP’d Baywatch is emblematic of the state and industry’s larger goals, insists California Film Commission director Colleen Bell. “These new projects, represent more than creativity on a screen,” she told Deadline. “They represent jobs, opportunity and stability for people who make our industry work. With this past round California’s sending a clear signal. We’re investing in our workforce and reaffirming our commitment to keep production here where it belongs.” “In January, we will be opening up our program to new expanded categories, which include large scale competition shows and animation projects,” Obama-era U. S. Ambassador to Hungary Bell added. “That really shows a nimbleness on the part of California leadership to recognize and understand that there are shifts and changes taking place. “We don’t want to leave money on the table. We want to capture as much production as we possibly can here in California.” Application periods and deadlines for online applications for the next big screen and small screen allocations are expected to be announced by the CFC early in 2026.
https://deadline.com/2025/11/california-tax-credits-tv-2025-1236623893/
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Maine women’s basketball falls in season opener to St. Joseph’s
Adrianna Smith made an impressive return to the court in her first game since missing the entire last season due to a knee injury. The 2022-23 America East Player of the Year showcased her talent during the University of Maine’s season-opening 63-62 loss to Saint Joseph’s University on Friday in Orono.
Smith finished the game with an outstanding double-double, recording 25 points, 12 rebounds, and three assists. Despite Maine trailing 58-46 with just over four minutes left, Smith sparked a dramatic comeback. She initiated the rally with a three-pointer and later nailed a crucial layup with 24 seconds remaining, narrowing the Hawks’ lead to three.
Saint Joseph’s responded with two foul shots by Rhian Stokes, pushing their lead back to five. However, Smith answered again with another layup. Stokes added one of two free throws with 16 seconds left, but Asta Blauenfeldt sealed the game for the Black Bears with a buzzer-beating three-pointer as time expired.
Blauenfeldt contributed 16 points for Maine, while Sarah Talon of Windham added 10. Cheverus graduate Maddie Fitzpatrick, the 2024 Miss Maine Basketball winner who missed her freshman season due to injury, played 16 minutes but was held scoreless.
On the Saint Joseph’s side, Gabby Casey led with 19 points and nine rebounds. Faith Stinon scored 16 points, while both Rhian Stokes and Jill Jekot chipped in with 11 points each. The Hawks improved their record to 1-1 with the narrow victory.
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/11/07/maine-womens-basketball-falls-in-season-opener-to-st-josephs/
Dodgers defeat Blue Jays in 11 innings to capture World Series title
TORONTO (AP) — In a World Series for the ages that swung back and forth again and again, Will Smith delivered the biggest swing of all for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Smith connected in the 11th inning for the first extra-inning homer in a winner-take-all title game, and Miguel Rojas became the first player to hit a tying home run in the ninth inning of a Game 7. On a roller-coaster night of see-sawing emotions, the Dodgers outlasted the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 Saturday to become the first repeat champion in a quarter century.
“You dream of those moments,” Smith said after the 4-hour, 7-minute thriller. “I’ll remember that forever.”
In this dramatic Game 7 — the kind of matchup kids conjure in backyards — the Blue Jays led 3-0 on Bo Bichette’s third-inning homer off Shohei Ohtani and held a 4-2 advantage before Max Muncy’s eighth-inning solo homer off star rookie Trey Yesavage.
Toronto was two outs from its first championship since 1993 when Rojas, inserted into the slumping Dodgers lineup in Game 6 to provide some energy, homered on a full-count slider from Jeff Hoffman and stunned the Rogers Centre crowd of 44,713.
“I’ve cost everybody in here a World Series ring,” Hoffman said ruefully.
Rojas hadn’t homered since Sept. 19. “I had a conversation with my wife,” he said. “She told me something big was waiting for me.”
World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto escaped a bases-loaded jam in the bottom half of the inning, and Toronto reliever Seranthony Domínguez stranded three Dodgers runners in the 10th.
Smith, who hit a go-ahead homer in Game 2, sent a 2-0 pitch from Shane Bieber into Toronto’s bullpen in left field, where it bounced into the seats, giving the Dodgers their first lead of the night. Running between first and second, Smith raised his arms in triumph.
“He hung a slider,” Smith said. “I banged it.”
Bieber, the 2020 AL Cy Young Award winner, was making his first relief appearance since 2019. “He was looking for it and I didn’t execute,” Bieber admitted.
Of course, there had to be even more drama in just the sixth winner-take-all Series game to go extra innings. It matched the Marlins’ 3-2 win over Cleveland in 1997 as the second-longest Game 7, behind only the Washington Senators’ 4-3, 12-inning victory against the New York Giants in 1924.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. doubled leading off the bottom of the 11th and was sacrificed to third. Addison Barger walked, and Alejandro Kirk hit a broken-bat grounder to shortstop Mookie Betts, who started a title-winning 6-6-3 double play. It was only the second double play to end a World Series, after the Yankees turned one in 1947 against the Dodgers.
“I thought we had chances to sweep them,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said. “Going back to the beginning of the Series when people were calling it David vs. Goliath, it’s not even close.”
Smith set a Series record by catching 73 innings. Betts earned his fourth title in the finale of baseball’s 150th major league season, the first that began and ended outside the United States.
In the Dodgers bullpen for the final game of his decorated 18-year career, Clayton Kershaw lost track of the outs.
“When he hit the double play, I thought the run scored and it was tied,” Kershaw said. “I thought I had the next batter.”
Los Angeles and its $500 million roster overcame a 3-2 Series deficit on the road. The Dodgers became the first repeat champion since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees won three in a row, and the first from the National League since the 1975 and ’76 Cincinnati Reds.
With their ninth championship and third in six years, the Dodgers made an argument for their 2020s teams to be considered a dynasty. Dave Roberts, their manager since 2016, boosted the probability he will gain induction to the Hall of Fame.
“To do what we’ve done in this span of time is pretty remarkable,” Roberts said. “I guess let the pundits and all the fans talk about if it’s a dynasty or not.”
After throwing 96 pitches in a Game 6 win Friday, Yamamoto tossed 43 more over 2 2/3 innings for his third win of the Series. He finished the postseason 5-1 with a 1.45 ERA.
“Before I went in, to be honest, I was not really sure if I could pitch up there to my best ability,” Yamamoto said through a translator. “But as I started getting warmed up, I started making a little bit of an adjustment, and then I started thinking I can go in and do my job.”
This Series produced many historic moments: the World Series’ first pinch-hit grand slam, its first complete game in a decade, an 18-inning Game 3 featuring Shohei Ohtani reaching base nine times, six outs recorded on the bases, Freddie Freeman becoming the first to hit two walk-off homers, the first back-to-back homers opening a game, Yesavage striking out a rookie-record 12 just six weeks after his debut, and the first game-ending double play in which an outfielder had a putout or assist.
“That game had every single thing you could possibly have,” Freeman said. “Just an absolutely incredible game, incredible Series.”
Los Angeles used all four of its postseason starting pitchers, with Yamamoto joined by Ohtani and Glasnow (2 1/3 innings each) and Blake Snell (1 1/3 innings).
Bichette, eyes bulging, put Toronto ahead in the third with a 442-foot drive off Ohtani, the two-way star pitching on three days’ rest after taking the loss in Game 4.
Los Angeles closed the gap to 3-2 on sacrifice flies from Teoscar Hernández in the fourth off 41-year-old Max Scherzer, just the fourth pitcher to start multiple winner-take-all Game 7s, and Tommy Edman in the sixth against Chris Bassitt.
Andrés Giménez restored Toronto’s two-run lead with an RBI double in the sixth off Glasnow, who relieved after getting the final three outs on three pitches to save Game 6 on Friday.
There was so much more to come.
In a Series filled with key defensive plays, Rojas stumbled in the ninth while fielding Daulton Varsho’s one-out, bases-loaded grounder off Yamamoto. Rojas managed to throw home for a forceout as Smith kept his foot on the plate to beat Isiah Kiner-Falefa, who had taken an unusually short 7.8-foot lead off third.
Ernie Clement then flied out to center fielder Andy Pages, who had just come off the bench for defense. Pages sprinted 121 feet and made a jumping, backhand catch on the left-center warning track as he crashed into left fielder Kiké Hernández.
Then with the bases loaded and one out in the 10th, Pages grounded to shortstop, where Giménez threw home for a forceout. Guerrero fielded a grounder to the right side and tossed to Domínguez covering first, just beating Hernández in a call upheld upon video review.
Visiting teams have now won five straight World Series Game 7s after home teams won nine in a row from 1982 to 2011.
While the Dodgers were sprayed with silver confetti and celebrated, the Blue Jays pondered how close they came in falling short. Eyes were red and voices cracked amid sobbing.
“I’ve been crying for like probably for an hour,” Clement said long after the final out. “I thought I was done with the tears.”
In the midst of the celebration, Freeman already looked ahead to the big, bad Dodgers taking on the rest of baseball again in 2026.
“The Yankees are three-time back-to-back,” he said, “so we get to use that same narrative next year.”
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/11/02/dodgers-defeat-blue-jays-in-11-innings-to-capture-world-series-title/