When Gov. Gavin Newsom lifted regional stay-at-home orders across California on Jan. 25, one sector that didn’t see much impact was the entertainment industry, which has been allowed to keep working under its essential status.
In fact, the major studios fully intended to move forward with resuming production in Los Angeles after extending their holiday hiatuses to mid-January.
They did this at the request of the L.A. County Department of Public Health and leading unions, including SAG-AFTRA and the Producers Guild, which recommended filming be paused until the city’s COVID-19 surge eased.
On Jan. 11, director Barbara Ferrer wrote a letter addressed to her “music, TV and film production colleagues” thanking them for taking a longer hiatus..
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