Los Angeles On-Location Shoot Days Plunge Again Amid Summer Of Strikes; 7th Straight Quarterly Drop
deadline.comThe WGA strike is over, but the fallout from that and the ongoing SAG-AFTRA walkout continue to clobber film and TV production in Los Angeles.
FilmLA reported today that on-location shooting days plunged again during the third quarter, dropping 41.4% over 2022 — the seventh consecutive quarterly decline.
Local production during the previous April-to-June quarter had fallen to the lowest levels since the early days of Covid. The city and county film-permitted office said the steepest losses in the July-to-September period came from the near-complete shutdown of scripted television production in May.
TV drama production dropped 99% from July through September (12 shoot days in 2023 vs. 1,198 in 2022), and TV comedy shoots plunged 99.4% (2 days vs.
