June 11th, 2021 By David Knox Make a commentFiled under: Streaming, Filming of Netflix series God’s Favorite Idiot has ended early in the Northern Rivers after star and producer Melissa McCarthy was rumoured to have returned to the USA. Halting the planned production at around half its 16 episode run has also impacted an estimated 300 Australian cast and crew members. This comes despite the production attracting some $10m funding from federal and state government incentives. A spokesperson for Australia’s communications and arts minister, Paul Fletcher, told Guardian Australia no funding had yet been paid to Netflix. “A final report on the production … has yet to be provided to the Office for the Arts which administers the location incentive on behalf of the government,” the spokesperson said.