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EXCLUSIVE: Four Ryan Murphy Production series are gearing up to go back to production: flagship Fox drama 9-1-1, breakout spinoff 9-1-1: Lone Star, as well as FX’s award-winning Pose and Impeachment, the latest installment in the American Crime Story franchise. The news comes on the heels of a strong launch for Murphy…

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA has told Hollywood's talent agents that return-to-work talks with management's AMPTP have stalled because the companies are refusing to spring for COVID-19 quarantine pay for series regulars and other film and TV performers. The union held what was billed as an "emergency" Zoom meeting with agents…

When COVID-19 hit in March, insurance companies abruptly backed away from pandemic coverage, a fateful move that’s hobbled efforts by independent producers to lock in financing and disrupted Hollywood as film and TV production attempts a comeback. As insurers — spooked by global pandemic payouts that could top $100…

The Association of Independent Commercial Producers has updated its guidelines and recommendations for the safe return to work on commercial shoots. "Having produced hundreds of commercials under the previous five versions of the guidelines since late April, we all continue to learn," the AICP said in the new preamble…

Most of the remaining CBS TV Studios series sidelined by the coronavirus pandemic have received a green light to return to production. The list includes CBS stalwart Blue Bloods, which is heading into Season 11, and SEAL Team, which will start filming its fourth season, as well as the CW’s Charmed and Nancy Drew. Also…

Editors Note: Deadline's Reopening Hollywood series focuses on the complicated effort to get the industry back on its feet in the era of coronavirus while ensuring the safety of everyone involved. Warner Bros is launching Tenet as the first post-pandemic studio tentpole nationwide. But exhibitors fear the U.S…

More U.S. series have started filming in Vancouver with COVID-19 protocols amid the pandemic. ABC/Sony TV’s The Good Doctor, which helped pave the way to an agreement between Hollywood studios and the British Columbia unions, started production on its fourth season today, I have learned. Disney+/ABC Signature’s The Mig…

Meredith Vieira, host of Fox Television Stations’ game show 25 Words or Less, offered viewers a tour of the show’s COVID-ready set she will use for its upcoming second season. As seen in the video (watch it above), Vieira will host the show solo from a set built out in the basement of her home outside of New York…

New York is officially back in the TV production business. Cameras have started rolling ABC’s drama series For Life, starring Nicholas Pinnock, and HBO Max’s limited series The Flight Attendant, headlined and exec produced by Kaley Cuoco. For Life, from Sony Pictures Television, is believed to be the first series to…

As film and TV production slowly resumes, testing of crews for COVID-19 "varies wildly from company to company," said Thom Davis, business manager of IATSE Grips Local 80, in his latest message to his members. "Even within the same company the manner that members are brought back and tested will change depending on…

EXCLUSIVE: Sex/Life is resuming after production on the Netflix dramedy got back up and running in Toronto. Deadline understands filming kicked off Monday on the eight-part series, which comes from UnReal's Stacy Rukeyser, just outside of the Canadian city at Dixie Studios. It marks one of the first Netflix scripted…

Jimmy Kimmel is returning to his late-night talk show following his stint hosting the Emmys with his show also heading back into its usual location of the El Capitan Entertainment Centre. Kimmel returns from his summer break on Monday September 21 and Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be back in the studio, having filmed from…