Posted on 01/06/2022 8:34:16 PM PST by dynachrome
Filming on Paramount+ drama Star Trek: Picard has been shut down since Monday following a sizable COVID-19 outbreak.
Sources say more than 50 members of the large production tested positive on Monday, which was the first day of work after the Christmas break. The Patrick Stewart-led series has one of television’s biggest crews, numbering more than 450 staffers. The infections impacted multiple zones, including cast in zone A.
Production on the series was immediately shut down Monday and has remained dark since. Sources say filming is expected to resume early next week, if not sooner, though details remain in limbo.
The highly contagious omicron variant of the virus has prompted a number of shows to pause filming this week, with fellow CBS Studios-produced series including NCIS among those that have been impacted. Major events including the Grammy Awards and a number of TV and film red carpets have been canceled, while others like the Sundance Film Festival have gone virtual.
Picard films in Los Angeles, which recorded 26,754 new cases, 2,240 hospitalizations and 27 deaths on Jan. 5. In California, an average of 59,000 cases a day were reported from New Year’s Eve through Monday.
CBS Studios declined comment.
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Woke Trek: Petard
obviously they caught it from an unjabbed Klingon ...
The fire department I retired from currently has more people off “sick” than in any time in its history. They were about to fire everyone who hadn’t been vaccinated, but 95% of those who are currently “sick” are vaccinated and the unvaccinated are currently being forced to work overtime to cover for them. But as soon as they get over the dreaded omicron they have been promised that they still will be fired.
Sorry didn’t state that well. As soon as the vaxxed recover from omicron, the unvaxxed who are working overtime to cover for them are going to be fired.
There are more crew members on the show than on the USS Enterprise.
Oh don’t tell me I’m late with that joke...
Make them wear red shirts ...
He did play Scrooge after all.
They’re all dead Jim.
More like trying to get the series completed before the 81 year old star drops dead.
Paging Dr. Crusher. Gates was hot.
I will give it a watch. Could care less about any covid crap.
The tests aren’t even accurate. Idiots!
Pretty sure more people died on the set of Rust than Picard.
Don’t worry, we’ve been paying attention the last two years, we knew what you meant to say. Two years ago it would have been less clear.
I was there when it stopped production. Their production stage is right beside ours.
Patrick stewart is a lefty asshole. <ety him more than a few times and I realllly...really wanted to punch him in the face.
You thinking of those "sexy" scenes in "Sub Rosa?"
Or of the scene of her and Troi in leotards?
Regards,
“A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd.
He’s not on the show anymore.
Good news a delay in another crappy movie
“I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm’s way.” – John Paul Jones
“I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my honor.” – John Paul Jones
“When the enemies’ land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within the memory of persons now living, the wonder and envy of the world.” – John Paul Jones
“It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable.” – John Paul Jones
“It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.” – John Paul Jones
“It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.” – John Paul Jones
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