Manufacturing has formally shut down on The CW’s Riverdale attributable to Coronavirus issues. TV Information has confirmed that filming was suspended after a manufacturing crew member got here into contact with somebody who had examined constructive for COVID-19.
Warner Bros. TV launched the next assertion in regards to the choice to halt manufacturing: “We’ve been made conscious {that a} crew member from Riverdale, which is produced in Vancouver, was lately in touch with an individual who has examined constructive for COVID-19. The crew member is at present receiving medical analysis. We’re working carefully with the suitable authorities and well being businesses in Vancouver to determine and phone all people who could have come into direct contact with our crew member. The well being and security of our staff, casts and crews is at all times our prime precedence. We’ve and can proceed to take precautions to guard everybody who works on our productions around the globe. Out of an abundance of warning, manufacturing on Riverdale is at present suspended.”
There isn’t any indication of whether or not the crew member in query has examined constructive for COVID-19 or if anybody else from the forged or crew of Riverdale has been uncovered. Presently, it is unclear when manufacturing on the sequence will proceed, but when the halt lasts a considerable period of time, we could also be in for a small hiatus this spring as filming catches up with the delay.
Riverdale airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on The CW.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has extra data on coronavirus COVID-19.
KJ Apa, Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse, and Lili Reinhart, Riverdale