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Production on TV Shows on COVID Pause: Grey’s, NCIS, General Hospital, More to Come As the ‘Cron Eats Hollywood

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Here we go again.

Television production is starting to pause because of the Omicron scare. COVID is wreaking havoc on schedules everywhere.

Shows on pause right now include “Grey’s Anatomy,” “NCIS,” “General Hospital,” “Station 19,” “The Rookie,” “NCIS Los Angeles.”

Some were on holiday hiatus and hope to return to work next week. Some will go back in February. For the soaps, which took several months off in 2020, COVID is particularly dicey. As we know, two long time “General Hospital” cast members were let go because they wouldn’t get vaccinated.

Everyone must be vaccinated to work on a TV show!  From the stars through the cast and the whole crew. No exceptions.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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