'The Bold & The Beautiful' Production is 'Paused' to Expand COVID-19 Testing

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.

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.

Here’s some good news for fans of the CBS reality franchise Big Brother – production has begun on the upcoming 22nd season!

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

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorJust minutes after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors closed the beaches for the long holiday weekend, a somber Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti took to his podium.“This period will be our second big test,” said Garcetti ominously. “It is now time for a pause,” said the mayor.

Jill Goldsmith Investment group Blackstone is buying a big minority stake in three Hollywood studios — Sunset Bronson, Sunset Gower and Sunset Las Palmas Studios — with 35 sound stages (1.2 million square feet) from owner Hudson Pacific Properties for $1.65 billion.

After developing new blood infections, Nick Cordero is “doing really great!”

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.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: The Machine, the Los Angeles-based management and production company run by former Gersh agent Kevin Herrera and Maker studios co-founder Rawn Erickson II, has named its first VP of Talent with the hiring of former Fullscreen and MGMT manager Blake Reading.Reading has been in situ for a few months now after leaving his post at Fullscreen Media, where he worked with talent including actors and social media influencers.

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

LOS ANGELES -- With cries for equality and justice ringing in the streets, a petition drive to rescue a canceled television series may seem inconsequential. But among the advocates for ABC’s “The Baker and the Beauty,” felled by its ratings after one season, are those who value it as an entertaining and affirmative depiction of family life in general and a Latino family in particular — long a TV rarity and, they say, especially vital now.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: More than three months after Hollywood came to a halt due to the coronavirus pandemic, NBCUniversal has begun a cautious return to work.Drawing from a comprehensive plan initiated mere days after its 400-acre Los Angeles facility shut down March 13 as well as the latest government guidelines, the Comcast-owned company this week began an incremental reopening for employees at its headquarters just off the 101 Freeway, according to internal

Production on CBS soap opera series The Bold and the Beautiful has been delayed to “better accommodate the large volume of testing needed” amid the COVID-19 crisis.

coronavirus. The popular CBS daytime drama will begin production again at CBS Television City in Los Angeles with strict COVID-19 protocols in place as mandated by the state and county, the show's publicist Eva Basler said Tuesday.