Los Angeles Production Struggling Post-Strike As Shoot Days Down 8.7% In Q1, FilmLA Says
deadline.comThe dual Hollywood strikes are history, but production has been slow to return in Los Angeles, especially for television projects.
The city and county’s film office said today that local on-location filming declined by 8.7% the first quarter, recording only 6,823 shoot days from January through March.
The quarterly report from FilmLA (read it here) cites a double-digit loss of television production as the main contributor to the decline.
TV production was down 16.2% year-over-year in Q1 — (2,402 shoot days vs. 2,868 in 2023). The current filming levels look much worse over a longer study period, as the television sector now trails its five-year category average by 32.8% Reality TV production dropped 18.6% in the first quarter to 1,317 shoot days, while location-heavy TV drama production dropped 5.5% and less location-heavy TV comedy production plunged by 51.5%.
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