Anthony Roman The 100 Best Shows on TV Right Now TV Guide celebrates the series that made us laugh, broke our hearts, and threw us a lifeline during these wild times TV Guide Editors
Sept. 3, 2020
As we began our annual ranking of the 100 Best Shows on TV Right Now, it was impossible to ignore the fact that there s never been a right now quite like this one.
The world is still reeling amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 800,000 people. As schools, restaurants, businesses, music venues, and sports arenas shut down beginning in March in an effort to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus, so did Hollywood. Filming for many of our favorite shows ceased midseason, and with theaters closed, major blockbuster movies were delayed or released straight to streaming platforms. It s been nearly six months, and millions of Americans are still in various stages of social isolation. Throughout it all, TV has served as a coping
Law & Order Defense Attorneys Spinoff a Go at NBC
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Former CSI showrunner Carol Mendelsohn will helm the series, which will be the seventh show in Dick Wolf s mega-franchise.
NBC is further expanding the world of
Law & Order.
The network has given a straight to series order to
Law & Order: For the Defense, the seventh series in producer Dick Wolf s mega-franchise (not counting the in-limbo
L&O: Hate Crimes and the
True Crime limited series that dramatized the real-life Menendez murders). Former
CSI showrunner Carol Mendelsohn will take the reins of the new series, which centers on the attorneys at a criminal defense firm.
TV rewrote the rules during COVID, but are the changes here to stay?
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When it became clear early in the pandemic that it was safer to be outdoors than in, the creators of
Big Shot, a new Disney+ series being made with John Stamos, started rewriting scenes so they could be shot outside. Then new guidance emerged, which underscored that loading a cast and crew into buses and dispatching them to sites all over Los Angeles posed its own risks. So they rewrote their scripts again so scenes could be shot on sets.
TV Production Adapted to Weather the Pandemic. Now What?
The unions representing actors and crews are in talks with the studios about extending and possibly changing the safety protocols they agreed on in September.
Like many other television shows, “Law & Order: SVU” had to adjust to resume production during the pandemic. The actors Ice-T and Jamie Gray Hyder shot a recent episode.Credit.Virginia Sherwood/NBC
April 28, 2021Updated 10:42 a.m. ET
When it became clear early in the pandemic that it was safer to be outdoors than in, the creators of “Big Shot,” a new Disney+ series being made with John Stamos, started rewriting scenes so they could be shot outside. Then new guidance emerged, which underscored that loading a cast and crew into buses and dispatching them to sites all over Los Angeles posed its own risks. So they rewrote their scripts again so scenes could be shot on sets.