CBS Studios has postponed the production return dates for five programs out of the current holiday hiatus, including NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles. The news comes a day after Deadline reports that the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health urged the film and TV industry to consider pausing production for a few weeks during the continuous increase in coronavirus cases across the county and hours. after hospitalization. Southern California home application has been extended to January 16.
Several other TV studios and streamers are also analyzing the situation, including talent availability and other logistics, with possible additional delays in starting production, I heard.
Longer term
According to sources, CBS Studios delayed the start of production of its series by one week, which was scheduled to return on January 4, NCIS, NCIS LA and Seal Team – everything for CBS – Why women kill (CBS All Access) and Diary of a future president (Disney +). They are now scheduled to return on January 11, along with other series that were scheduled to begin shooting in late January.
“While music, TV and film productions are allowed to operate, we ask that you strongly consider taking a break from work for a few weeks during this catastrophic increase in cases from Covid,” said the health department in the letter, sent to industry contacts. department on December 24 and made public by FilmLA December 28. “Identify and postpone high-risk activities and focus on low-risk work for now, if possible.”
Following the request of the health department, FilmLA reminded filmmakers that “travel for production purposes is currently not advised”. Although the state allows travel for productions, it increases the risk of COVID “by making it more likely that people will end up together in vehicles or indoors in less controlled locations”, together with people from distant areas. “Hospitals are crowded almost everywhere,” warned the message, encouraging filmmakers to “keep the cast and crew close to home.”
Los Angeles today has reached another dismal milestone, with the county surpassing 7,000 coronavirus-related hospitalizations for the first time. Currently, 7,181 people are hospitalized because of the infectious disease. According to Los Angeles Public Health officials, the latest numbers of hospitalizations represent almost a 1,000% increase over October 29, when the county had 750 hospitalizations for Covid-19. The capacity of the LA County ICU is 0%.
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