With production grinding to a halt in the face of the novel coronavirus, the entertainment industry has found itself navigating uncharted territory.
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Veteran producer David T. Friendly (Little Miss Sunshine) was in the middle of shooting the fifth season of his USA Network series Queen of the Southin New Orleans when production was halted due to coronavirus concerns.
In fact, he'd arrived in the city just a few weeks prior and had celebrated Mardi Gras before the quarantine set in. "That could have been a very dangerous.