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As negotiations between labor and management enter the home stretch for a final return-to-work agreement, SAG-AFTRA has issued a set of questions and answers about the "Safe Way Forward" protocols established by the industry’s unions and guilds on June 12 – including four of the issues that are still outstanding in…

As film, TV and commercial production slowly resumes, Karen Stuart, executive director of the Association of Talent Agents, has told her 115 member-agencies that they should be "diligent about making sure proper safety protocols are in place to protect the health and safety of their clients." The safety of cast and…

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…

The Producers Guild of America has issued its protocols for the safe return to work on scripted and unscripted independent productions. The guidelines stress "regular testing" for COVID-19; workdays no longer than 10 hours; no COVID-related liability waivers; "absolutely no visitors" on set; the sanitizing of shared…

EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Clarkson spent part of the COVID-19 lockdown on her ranch in Montana, where she was filming weekly remote episodes of her daytime talkshow. However, the pop star and host is now back in Los Angeles and stepping in for Simon Cowell on America's Got Talent. She also is gearing up to return to the studio…

EXCLUSIVE: A staffer from The Bold and the Beautiful production company Bell-Phillip Television tested positive for COVID-19 three and a half weeks ago, sources told Deadline. As a precaution, the studio moved up the show’s dark week for that month and added a second dark week, I hear. (The Bold and the Beautiful is…

Leaders of the Art Directors Guild are blaming management's AMPTP for the delay in finalizing procedures for a safe return to work amid the coronavirus pandemic. On July 24, the Art Directors Guild – IATSE Local 800 – released its own protocols "in the absence of an industry-wide agreement" with the Alliance of Motion…

The major companies and Hollywood's unions are close to finalizing terms for restarting film and TV production. "Return-to-work discussions are ongoing with the studios and the other unions and guilds," Teamsters Local 399 said in the latest message to its members. "At this time we are still trying to finalize some of…