CBS series Marshals returns to Summit County for second season filming
Marshals is back in Summit County, with state incentives tied to $69.5 million in projected impact and more than 1,000 Utah jobs.
Film trucks, hotel rooms and location crews were headed back into Summit County as CBS series Marshals returned for a second season, part of a state-backed production slate that again spread work across the Wasatch Back. The question for local residents is not just where the cameras roll, but how much spending lands in county businesses, how many local workers get hired, and how much disruption comes with the production footprint on roads and at rural locations.
The Utah Film Commission approved five productions for incentives on April 24, projecting $69.5 million in economic impact and more than 1,000 jobs across six counties. Marshals Season 2 was one of those projects, with filming slated for Salt Lake, Summit and Wasatch counties. For Summit County, that meant another round of temporary demand for lodging, transportation, equipment, location logistics and staffing, the kind of short-term spending that can ripple through restaurants, stores and service companies.
Paramount Television Studios executive Drew Brown said Utah offered an exceptional backdrop and that the support of the Utah Film Commission, along with the state’s experienced crews and local knowledge, made the decision to return straightforward. Virginia Pearce, who leads the commission, said the Utah Motion Picture Incentive Program is vital to keeping a film industry in the state and said productions directly invest in local communities and businesses. The program is not a simple rebate; Utah describes it as a 20% to 25% post-performance incentive that can come as a cash rebate or a fully refundable, non-transferable tax credit, with a Rural Utah bonus that can raise the value to 25% when productions meet location or hiring thresholds.
The return of Marshals also underscores how aggressively Utah has been trying to keep production dollars from leaving the state. In June 2025, the commission approved the earlier Y: Marshals project for a Rural Utah Film Incentive and said production would begin in and around Summit County that fall. That slate was estimated at $57.4 million in economic impact and more than 380 jobs. By January, the commission said Marshals had already filmed in Summit and Wasatch counties as part of a broader rural-production year.
Statewide, the numbers have been moving fast. The commission said 2025 incentive-supported productions filmed in 14 counties, generated more than $136 million in production spending and created more than 2,600 Utah jobs. Over four years, the Rural Utah Film Incentive has generated more than $200 million in rural-community spending. The commission, formed in 1974, has made the economic argument for years: keep the crews here, keep the spending here, and keep the scenery working as an asset instead of a one-time backdrop.
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