A Year Of Covid: Top TV Showrunners On The Day Hollywood Shut Down & Pandemic’s Lasting Impact
On the evening of March 12, 2020, Grey’s Anatomy executive producers Krista Vernoff, Debbie Allen and James Williams sent out note to the series’ cast and crew, informing them that “Out of an abundance of caution, production is postponed effective immediately. We are going home now for at least two weeks and waiting to see how the coronavirus situation evolves.” Over the following 24 hours, virtually all Hollywood production shut down and stayed dark for months as the pandemic took hold and ravaged the world, until TV series started a return to filming in late summer-early fall with strict Covid protocols.