3 Film, TV Industry Groups Want Southern California Production ‘Hold’

Representatives of film and TV actors, advertisers and producers agreed to recommend a “temporary hold” on in-person content production in southern California amid surging COVID-19 cases, said the groups Sunday. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of TV and Radio Artists joined the Joint Policy Committee of commercial advertisers and ad agencies and the Producers’ Guild of America to encourage members to pause production “until more hospital beds become available.” It's “not a safe environment for in-person production,” said SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris, whose group was one of four unions publishing June “guidelines” on the “safe return to work” for cast and crew (see 2006120040).