Executives and crew arriving in the
UK will have to isolate for 10 days in reversal of move made to get film production back up and running
Film and TV crew are no longer exempt from
Coronavirus restrictions related to
Job travel, it has emerged. The UK government’s list of jobs that qualify for travel exemptions has been updated to remove “television production” and “high end television production and film”, which means that executives and crew arriving in the UK will have to isolate for 10 days.
The move is a reversal of the widely publicised policy that saw film-makers and crew allowed into the UK in July without quarantine as part of a government drive to get film production in the UK back up and running. Culture secretary Oliver Dowden had made the announcement after apparently consulting with Tom Cruise, whose Mission Impossible films were among the
Hollywood productions to restart
shooting in the UK in September.