‘NCIS,’ Other CBS Studios Shows Extend Hiatus Amid L.A. COVID-19 Surge

“You got the Lakers, you got the Clippers and you got Sierra Canyon High School.”

“As of today, 1 in 3 people in Los Angeles County have been infected with the virus,” said Mayor Eric Garcetti on Thursday.

As Los Angeles's public health officials are calling the city's current COVID-19 surge — in which 10 people are testing positive for the virus every minute — the "worst disaster our county has experienced in decades," Hollywood's top studios have begun their return to production in L.A.

With COVID-19 cases showing no sign of abating, organizers of Hollywood awards shows and global film festivals are grappling with whether to postpone or scuttle their planned industry events. On Jan.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterProduction on two Universal Television shows has been rescheduled again after multiple shows across multiple studios extended their planned hiatus’ due to a COVID-19 surge in Los Angeles.The NBC series “Good Girls” and Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever” are now scheduled to begin filming again the week of Jan. 18 due to non-COVID related logistical issues at the studio, an individual with knowledge of the situation said.

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With production stalled in Los Angeles amid the city's latest COVID-19 surge, the industry is wrestling with when it'll be able to return to work safely in one of its most popular filming regions. The major studios and streamers have paused production on the bulk of their L.A.-based projects, most of which were already on a hiatus over the holidays, marking the town's biggest shutdown since March when the virus first began to spread in the U.S.

James Corden and Jimmy Kimmel have started filming from home again due to the coronavirus pandemic.The talk show hosts – who present the Late Late Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live! respectively – have both shifted to remote production again due to restrictions in Los Angeles.Opening his program on Monday night (January 4, 2021), Jimmy laughed: “Hi, I’m Jimmy, I’m the host of this house. Thanks for watching from your house.

Jimmy Kimmel and James Corden are back to working from home. The late-night talk show hosts, who both tape in Los Angeles, have returned to remote production of their respective shows due to the COVID-19 surge.Kimmel addressed the return to his house at the start of Monday's, while delivering his monologue from his living room, where he'd previously hosted the show during the early months of the pandemic.«Hi, I'm Jimmy, I'm the host of this house,» he began with a laugh.

An unprecedented surge in coronavirus infections and deaths in Los Angeles County has prompted numerous TV shows to delay their return to production following the holiday hiatus.

Sony Pictures Television is the latest TV studio to extend the holiday production hiatus of its Los Angeles-based series amid an unprecedented surge in coronavirus infections and Covid-19 deaths in LA County.

Dozens of popular television shows, including “This Is Us” and “Grey’s Anatomy”, have extended their production hiatuses due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

coronavirus surge in the city. Five of the studios’ programs — including two from the hit “NCIS” series — will be affected by the pause, which pushes back the return of post-holiday production from Jan. 4 to Jan.

Disney Television Studios has joined other major TV studios in pushing the post-holidays start of production for Los Angeles-based shows amid an unprecedented surge in coronavirus infections and Covid-19 deaths in Los Angeles County.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVWarner Bros. Television and Universal Television have put their series on hiatus amid calls for a pause in production activity as COVID infection rates rise in Los Angeles County.Warner Bros.

All American, Bob ❤️ Abishola, B Positive, Call Me Kat, Mom, Shameless, and You, which had been scheduled to return from the holiday break the week of Jan. 4 will all prolong their production hiatus. While the shows will be dark next week, they will maintain existing testing protocols in preparation to resume production the week of Jan. 11 while the studio continues to review the situation.

On New Year’s Eve, Los Angeles County reported a third consecutive day of record coronavirus-related deaths. The tally was another 290 lives lost, although some of them are due to a backlog in reporting from the holiday weekend.

the stay-at-home order for Southern California will remain in effect indefinitely, SAG-AFTRA told members Tuesday night that “most” film and TV productions will stay on hiatus through at least the middle of January.Across the Los Angeles area, hospitals are at zero capacity with ICUs full, with some reporting that they’ve had to turn gift shops into makeshift rooms and even turn patients away.

Ellise Shafer administratorIn a message to members on Tuesday, SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris and national executive director David White said that many productions will remain on hiatus for the next few weeks as Los Angeles County experiences a continued surge in COVID-19 cases.“We are writing to let you know that we are closely monitoring the recent surge in COVID-19 infections along with the reported lack of intensive care unit (ICU) beds throughout the state of California and