With most TV productions having shut down abruptly in the past week or so due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, most with still at least 1-4 episodes of their season left to film, a new report at Vulture has gone into what happens next.
Executives at the major broadcast TV networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, The CW) are all reportedly operating under the assumption that few if any of their shows will resume production in time to finish current seasons, and even if they could the cost of resuming production would make it prohibitive. A source says: “Realistically, every show that shut production down is done.”
Almost all cable and streaming shows always wrap production before the first episode of a series goes to air so there’s not as much a concern. “Fargo” was an exception but with its delay it’s not facing the problem, while a show like “The Good Fight” will likely roll its episodes over into a jumbo-sized next season.
Some network shows like “Modern Family” already wrapped, whilst procedural shows are generally not that impacted by such changes. Serialised shows, however, are in a bind – the shows building up to a big finale but will instead end on a whimper.
The two big ones impacted are on The CW – “Supernatural” and “The 100”. “The 100” decided to carry on filming and is wrapping up its finale by mid-week. “Supernatural” however had several episodes left to film and reportedly no decisions have yet been made regarding what to do.
