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Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVAll systems are go for the cameras to start rolling on the second season of Tyler Perry’s BET series Sistas tomorrow, July 14. The cast and crew of the series had been quarantined at the Atlanta-based Tyler Perry Studios since late last week when actors were flown in from Los Angeles and New York on Perry’s private plane.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVABC’s General Hospital, which had been eying a mid-July production restart amid the coronavirus pandemic, is now targeting the week of July 20 to resume taping. The situation remains fluid as new infections have been soaring in Los Angeles.CBS’ The Young and the Restless, which too had delayed its production restart by a week, from the week of July 6 to the week July, 13, is on track to get cameras rolling, I hear.

screeched to a halt last quarter as stay-at-home orders brought filming to a standstill in Tinseltown, according to a new report.Unsurprisingly, production in Los Angeles plummeted 97.8 percent, to just 194 shooting days, compared with the April to June year-ago period, a FilmLA study said.The stark report, which called the second quarter “a near total loss for on-location filming,” said the period marked the “lowest filming levels on record.” That’s linked to the fact that production remained

The feature film “Songbird” began production in Los Angeles today, marking the first motion picture to begin filming there since the City of Angels went into lockdown in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – “The Bachelor” franchise has had 40 seasons of its two flagship dating shows and spawned a number of spinoffs from “Bachelor in Paradise” to the raunchier “Bachelor Pad” to a romantic singing competition show and even a Winter Olympics-inspired series. All of those shows have one thing in common, which is the cast members are typically in their 20s.

David Robb Labor EditorOn-location filming in Los Angeles suffered a near-total collapse in the second quarter of 2020 because of the coronavirus shutdown of film and TV production.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerEdwin T. Vane, a former ABC television executive and president of Group W Productions, died of natural causes on June 26 in Los Angeles.

Machine Gun Kelly, 30, was ready for an overnight visit, it seems. The star — who was born Colson Baker — was spotted in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles as he got into his luxe black Aston Martin vehicle on Thursday, July 2. He had a bottled orange juice from organic grocer Erewhon in his left hand and a black sweatshirt slung over his right arm as he showed off his many tattoos.

SAG-AFTRA has given a greenlight for production on 7th & Union, a LatinX drama toplined by Mexican comedy star Omar Chaparro and Edy Ganem, and to start in Los Angeles on Monday. The feature from newly launched Broken English Productions has Chaparro playing Raymundo, a Mexican ex-fighter who forms an unlikely bond with a disgruntled man (Gregg Daniel), whose life and relationship with his daughter, played by Erinn Westbrook, are unraveling.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: The Big Brother house is under construction, offering a greenshoot of hope to fans that the CBS reality series will air this summer.Deadline understands that preliminary production prep has begun on the show’s set at CBS’ Radford lot in Los Angeles.

Conan O’Brien is shifting production locations for his hit late-night talk show “Conan”.

Peter White Television EditorAmerica’s Got Talent is one of the first big-budget non-scripted formats to resume filming following the COVID-19 production shutdown.The NBC show started shooting outside last week in Los Angeles and the Fremantle and Syco-produced show put in a number of interesting processes to ensure a safe return.Creator Simon Cowell and exec producers Sam Donnelly and Jason Raff tell Deadline how they did it.Before the shutdown, the show, which returned on May 26, shot the

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorAndrew Calof is joining Wayfarer Studios as President of Production and Development.Calof was previously at Amblin Partners for the last five years where he served as VP of Creative Affairs and oversaw development on such features as Office Christmas Party and Ghost in the Shell. In his new post, based in Los Angeles, Calof will oversee creative development, as well as physical and post-production, across all feature films, television and

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVABC’s General Hospital is joining fellow daytime dramas The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless in setting a target date for return to production. ABC is tentatively planning to resume shooting its long-running soap in mid-July contingent on the CIVID-19 situation in Los Angeles, which have been fluid.CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful restarted production last week.

Will Smith's production company has landed into soup for an upcoming biopic titled King Richard, based on Serena and Venus William's father Richard Williams. Last year, news broke out that Will Smith will be seen stepping into the shoes of Richard William in the biopic.

would be playing Venus and Serena Williams' father, Richard Williams, in an upcoming biopic, — but a new lawsuit claims that the tennis coach had already sold his life rights to someone else. In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Tuesday, TW3 Entertainment and Power Move Multi Media claim that the upcoming film, produced by Smith's production company, Overbrook Entertainment, and Warner Bros., is based on a multi-million dollar breach of contract. «This case presents an unfortunate and tawdry