COVID Archives

With production on the second season of Netflix's The Witcher currently on pause as the UK's new COVID lockdown rolls on, a little good news on the health front Back in the middle of December 2020, we reported that series star Henry Cavill aka Geralt was recovering from "a minor leg muscle injury" sustained during production at[...]

On Sunday, SAG-AFTRA, the Producers Guild of America, and the Joint Policy Committee of the Association of National Advertisers and the American Association of Advertising Agencies announced that on-set commercial production has been halted temporarily in Southern California over COVID outbreaks in the region (with major studios and streamers already on production hiatus until the[...]

The move comes after the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reached out to the entertainment industry for their voluntary support last week as COVID cases and deaths continue to rise throughout the county and the state of California. AHS, The Orville, Mayans MC, and more series join the list of delayed post-holiday hiatus returns[...]

Joe Glass, former Bleeding Cool reporter and comic book creator/publisher, may be the first person in comics to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The move comes after the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reached out to the entertainment industry for their voluntary support on Monday as COVID cases and deaths continue to rise throughout the county and the state of California. (Photo by: Jordin Althaus/NBC) FilmLA posted excerpts from the county health department on their website, directed at[...]

Only a day after the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health urged television and film productions to pause productions in light of the surging number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, CBS Studios is delaying the production-return dates for five series coming off their holiday breaks CBS' NCIS, NCIS Los Angeles, and Seal Team, as[...]

Building upon its recently launched "Real Heroes Wear Masks" poster campaign showcasing various Arrowverse members such as Superman (Tyler Hoechlin), The Flash (Grant Gustin), Supergirl (Melissa Benoist), Black Lightning (Cress Williams), Stargirl (Brec Bassinger), Thunder (Nafessa Williams), White Canary (Caity Lotz), and Beebo (from DC's Legends of Tomorrow), The CW is teaming up with Boys[...]

While our "Charmed Ones" Macy (Madeleine Mantock), Mel (Melonie Diaz), and Maggie (Sarah Jeffery) are still expected to return on Sunday, January 24, 2021, for the third season of magic, mystery, and mayhem, production has hit a COVID-related bump along the way Deadline Hollywood reports exclusively that filming was "paused" on Wednesday after "an individual from[...]

While the Halloween weekend brought a couple of treats for viewers in the form of some second-season creature first-looks, Tuesday brought the production a big, old "trick" in the form of England's recently-announced COVID lockdown that begins this Thursday So what does that mean for production? The Witcher offered early looks at the second season[...]

Late last month, we learned from Amell that he tested positive for COVID in early October and was forced to leave production on the indy wrestling-themed STARZ series Then last week, reports came out that Amell had sustained an injury to his back while filming the series So with all of that in play, we're[...]

Not content with having powerhouses like Scott "C'mon! Who doesn't remember 'Cha-Chi'?" Baio and Jorge "Maybe Too Many Punches to the Head?" Masvidal out super-spreading Trump's argument for four more years, the PosTUS had such stellar athletes as Jack "I Played Gold Before There Were Talking Movies" Nicklaus, Jay *Yawn* Cutler, and Brett "Mom Jeans"[...]

Only days after the Heels star revealed that he tested positive for COVID and recently returned back to work on the indy wrestling-focused STARZ series Stephen Amell (Arrow) has sustained a back injury during filming on the series in Atlanta, Georgia "While performing a stunt on the set of Heels this week, Stephen Amell sustained[...]

While ABC's The Rookie might be the latest television series to be hit by several positive COVID-19 tests, show producer Entertainment One is continuing on with production on the third season after a "deep cleaning" of the set and filming locations On October 21, it was confirmed that four crew members had tested positive with[...]

But it turns out he used that as an escape to go to Russia because he figured, 'Well, I'm going to lose… Russia will protect me and I won't have to pay my tax bill.'" But are there just too many "storylines" happening this year for just one season? In just the past month, the nation's[...]

Titans DoP/cinematographer Boris Mojsovski says Curran Walters's Red Hood is "a treat," shows how filming in small spaces works, and more.

But we need to turn things serious for this one because Amell made an emergency appearance on the Inside of You podcast with host Michael Rosenbaum to reveal for the first time why things have been quiet over the past few weeks: the actor tested positive for COVID-19. Stephen Amell wrestling at AEW All In (Image:[...]

With AMC's The Walking Dead back into production and starting on the six "extra" episodes set for early 2021 that are meant to bridge the 10th and 11th seasons, Norman Reedus aka Daryl Dixon (who tipped fans off via social media that the team was back to work about a day or so before the[...]

As the national pandemic death toll continues to rise and individual states attempt to implement COVID health and safety protocols in place to restart television and film productions, a whole lot of eyeballs have been fixated on California- Los Angeles, in particular Now we're learning the names of the newest wave of television drama and[...]

AMC announced they'll start reopening select theatres while implementing their COVID-oriented sanitation policy AMC Safe and Clean nationally. "The reopening of movie theatres around the country is essential to the theatrical industry and the entire entertainment ecosystem," AMC CEO Adam Aron said "It has become clear that movie studios are not willing to release a blockbuster[...]

Wallen was contacted by the show and informed that he was being cut from the show "because of COVID protocols," but he said in his Instagram post (see below) that SNL creator Lorne Michaels told him his appearance would be rescheduled for another time [Ed Note: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!].  "It's a tough video for me to make[...]

Approximately a week after reports surfaced that Vancouver-based productions Riverdale, Batwoman, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl (the latter two expected to begin filming this week), and others had been shut down due to delays in processing COVID tests in British Columbia, some of those productions have gotten back to work Earlier this week, The CW's Nancy[...]

So, your favorite Netflix show has suffered the dreaded COVID cancellation Yes, I'm gutted that GLOW is gone too, but here's why a "#SaveGLOW" campaign won't work in this situation Show creators released a statement about safely, but there's more to it than that. So who's decision was it and how come this production got the[...]

With its final eighteen episodes set to spread out over the course of the second half of the fifth season as well as the sixth and final season, Netflix's Lucifer looks to be charging ahead to knock out both seasons in one major production haul to avoid the chances of more COVID-related delays To be[...]

For those of you who took issue with Saturday Night Live's Donald Trump/Joe Biden debate sketch, Alec Baldwin has a message for you.

Following the teaser for the comedy-variety series' return is a list of protocols that will be in place for anyone looking to be in the audience: how to order tickets, on-site testing and mask-wearing procedures, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyCLdWm66HcVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: SNL Returns to 30 Rock (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyCLdWm66Hc) Please request tickets for you and anyone[...]

Some good news to kick off the week for Cowboy Bebop and The Lord of the Rings fans: both series have resumed or will resume production.

With a COVID pandemic kicking the living crap out of the world for the past six months, why hasn't Rick stepped in to do anything about it. His response was one that would make the budget-crunchers at Adult Swim smile with pride: having to wear masks is saving the show's budget a ton since they don't[...]

This time was no different, though Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats might want to sit down for this one: Rock says you're to blame for Donald Trump and the COVID pandemic. Fargo Installment 4 introduces the cast (Images: FX Networks) During his interview with The New York Times, the actor/comedian didn't hold back when it came to[...]

First reported exclusively by Deadline Hollywood, Stumptown was originally set to return to its Wednesday night timeslot starting this fall but COVID pandemic-related delays has kept the series from making its premiere window The delay in the series' return lead ABC to not move forward on a second season Over the course of its first[...]

Wondering how Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, and the rest of the denizens of South Park have been faring during the COVID pandemic? Well, Comedy Central and series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are going to offer viewers of the long-running animated series a (socially-distanced) peek into their lives on September 30th with the one-hour episode[...]