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‘The Crown’ Season 5 premiere delayed to 2022, hiatus planned before coronavirus pandemic
EXCLUSIVE: Imelda Staunton will not make her bow as Queen Elizabeth II until 2022 as “The Crown” takes a filming break this year amid its final cast changeover, Deadline can reveal.Left Bank Pictures won’t get cameras rolling on Season 5 of the Netflix franchise until June next year, meaning the streamer will be without new episodes of one of its highest-profile shows in 2021.Deadline understands that the filming break has always been part of “The Crown”’s production schedule and is not related to the coronavirus pandemic, although sources acknowledged that the hiatus has been helpfully timed.The show would need to be ramping up for production right now if Season 5 was to be delivered in 2021, which sources said would have been far from