‘Heels’: How A Wrestling Drama Weathered The Pandemic And Celebrates The Underdog

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When the new Starz wrestling drama began production last fall, the pandemic posed challenges that were both very new to the industry and also costly.

And when dealing with a high contact sport, the stakes are even higher.“Everybody had to be very disciplined,” executive producer and showrunner Mike O’Malley told Deadline. “We started shooting in late Aug., so the pandemic had been going on for about six months and people were scared they were never going to work again.

If we couldn’t figure out a way to work in our business and make television and be responsible, then we wouldn’t make more television.

I think there was a responsibility from this group and certainly from my perspective where we felt we had to show this was possible.