Things are very bad in the Los Angeles-based film and television industry, as a massive pullback from peak production has pushed many of the workers in the entertainment industry, from actors to gaffers, to financial brink. As it stands, the unemployment rate in Hollywood’s industries is at 12.5 percent as of August, the single worst rate for that month since 2000 outside of the pandemic and triple the overall national unemployment rate. The number of filming days in film, commercials, and television in Los Angeles County was 12,572 days in the first half of the year, down by a third from the 17,392 shooting days of the 10-year pandemic-excepted average. This isn’t your average recession.
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