WGA Strike: ‘Power Book II: Ghost’ & ‘Pretty Little Liars’ Temporarily Shuttered By East Coast Scribes
11.05.2023 - 21:59
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EXCLUSIVE: The WGA East has hit the pause button on two more shows in New York today.
Power Book II: Ghost and the latest Pretty Little Liars installment temporarily shuttered production Thursday as East Coast scribes and their supporters took to the picket lines.
The first spinoff in Starz’s Powerverse was attempting to shoot in NYC’s Tribeca neighborhood, but everything has come to a stand still. HBO Max’s Pretty Little Liars: Summer School, the fourth show in the PLL franchise was filming in the town of Newburgh, outside the Big Apple.
The latest productions to face the WGA East’s swift moving Rapid Response Team, Ghost and PLL: Summer School have not yet formally shut down for the day, I hear. In the past, shows like Billions have halted filming for a few hours due to the Writers Guild labor action, and then resumed later.
That still may happen in the cases of Ghost and PLL as the working day inches to a close on the East Coast, or not.
On location in the loft rich Tribeca and just off Canal Street, the Michael Rainey Jr-led Ghost was shooting the seventh episode in its forthcoming fourth season on Thursday, I’m told. The Courtney Kemp-created series, which has its Season 3 finale on May 26, uses Steiner Studios in Brooklyn as its home base – a facility the WGA East instructed members and supporters to picket today from 12 – 3 PM ET. Now signed to a deal with Netflix, Ghost EP Kemp was seen out with other picketers in front of the Paramount gates in LA on May 10.
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