Virginia Sherwood/NBC(NEW YORK) — Shooting on the New York City-based Law & Order: Organized Crime has been suspended after a member of the production tested positive for COVID-19.
Deadline reports the segment of the production affected was Zone A, meaning the cast of the NBC show and those with direct contact to them. Such “zone” designations have allowed film crews to operate — and quickly isolate — any cases of the virus and those affected by them.
Like all shows currently in production, the Law & Order series operates under strict pandemic protocols.
Law & Order: Organized Crime will launch with a reunion of star Christopher Meloni and his former Law & Order: SVU partner Mariska Hargitay on April 1. The show kicks off with an SVU crossover event at 9 p.m., following by Organized Crime at 10 p.m.
Netflix(NEW YORK) — Professional prankster and comedian Eric Andre found the perfect team for his new Netflix hidden-camera comedy, Bad Trip.
Andre, who enlisted good friend Lil Rel and comedian Tiffany Haddish to help him pull pranks on unsuspecting bystanders, tells ABC Audio that there were definitely challenges in using their familiar faces. Thankfully, he explains, they “had a whole plan in place.”
“Rel wore his hair and his facial hair like he never wore before. We had a specific costume for him,” Andre says. “Tiffany Haddish — we had face tattoos and cornrows and we dressed her like a construction worker.”
“I cut my hair down,” he continues. “So like a haircut, glasses, face tattoos. Those little things would throw off a lot of people and shake them off the scent.”
While a good disguise helped Andre and his co-stars to fly under the radar, the jokester says it was also important to stay away from his audience.
“My demographic is all like dudes under 25 years old,” he says. “So as long as we prank aunties and… soccer moms, I knew I wasn’t going to get busted.”
“Like anybody over 45 years old does not recognize me in the street,” Andre laughs. “So… they’re not college kids, they’re not frat boys, they’re all like tired moms.”
So what happens when someone does get recognized? Andre says they used special “code words” to escort people away and even flat out lied if necessary.
“One time this woman was like, ‘Hey, you look like Lil Rel Howery,'” Andre recalls. “And Lil Rel went, ‘Yeah, I get that all the time man. That’s crazy… I liked him in Get Out. He was great.’ And she totally [believed it.] She was like, ‘Okay…'”
Daniel MeigsBefore Ashley McBryde shares her Never Will: Live From a Distance EP this spring, the singer is sharing her live version of one of the project’s most ferocious tracks, “Shut Up Sheila.”
A seething missive dedicated to the bossy “Sheila” who comes in between a family in mourning and their grieving process, the song takes on an extra-fiery element when Ashley performs it live against a backdrop of smoke and blue neon.
“There’s somebody in your family that you want to smack in the face and tell them to shut up,” Ashley told Rolling Stone back when her album, Never Will, arrived in April 2020. “But because we are from the South or we live in the South, we use our ‘company manners’ all the time. We don’t always get to ball that fist up and go, ‘Shut up!’”
Since the COVID-19 pandemic made it impossible for Ashley to tour her new music after dropping Never Will, the six-song live EP offers a selection of songs from that project, performed in a live setting.
“Getting together to rehearse and record these live versions safely was our way of giving the fans a taste of what they would have seen had the world not changed so much,” the singer explained of making the new record.
A new kids-and-family podcast called This Duckburg Life, hosted by Danny Pudi as Huey Duck, debuts on March 29.
“For Huey as a character, this is exactly what he would love to do, is be able to kind of go in there and be doing these in-depth stories within Duckburg in a podcast format,” Pudi tells ABC Audio. “It really just kind of felt like a natural place for Huey to go.”
Pudi says he took inspiration from public radio’s This American Life and “harnessed Huey’s frenetic energy” into a calmer, quieter podcast host style.
The whole seven-part series was recorded during lockdown from Pudi’s very own…closet.
“We were able to do it from my house, I was upstairs in my closet,” he says. “It was pretty bare bones. I just hung some blankets around me, you know, [it] looked like I was in a blanket fort. And we just did it like that in the closet. And I think it turned out great.”
You can listen to This Duckburg Life — which will also feature voice appearances by David Tennant, Ben Schwartz and Bobby Moynihan reprising their DuckTales roles — on Disney XD YouTube, DisneyNOW and Disney XD VOD every Monday.
ABCLuke Combs is already looking ahead to his third album.
The singer previewed an unreleased song called “See Me Now” on social media this week, posting a clip of himself performing it with just his acoustic guitar as accompaniment. “Y’all wanted an album 3 preview, so here’s a little sneak peek,” he wrote.
Luke hasn’t shared any additional details about the content of his next album, or when fans can expect it to arrive. When it does drop, the project will follow his landmark 2019 release, What You See is What You Get.
Setting a number of chart records and breaking several milestones, Luke’s second album was a massive accomplishment for the singer, earning a spot as one of the top ten albums of 2020 in any genre. Between the album’s original release and its October 2020 deluxe edition, What You See Ain’t Always What You Get, it produced five number-one hit singles at country radio.
Luke’s currently angling to bring that number up to six: Just weeks ago, he revealed that “Forever After All” will be his next single off the project. As of this Friday, the song is already a Top 30 hit on the Billboard Country Airplay chart.
Virginia Sherwood/NBC(NEW YORK) — Shooting on the New York City-based Law & Order: Organized Crime has been suspended after a member of the production tested positive for COVID-19. 
