Hey Eric,
The pilot was shot within 8 hours from where I live, so production covered lodging, perdiem & transportation for the 6 day of shooting. Also when the producer called to book me for the first season she mentioned that the locations were still TBD and that that wouldn't be an issue since they "loved" my work... Dunno what happened there, maybe the DP had a sound buddy? who knows. All I was told was "you can go ahead & start taking jobs"