The 2017 California wildfires indirectly impacted one Hollywood production in a particularly unique way. The upcoming (and still untitled) “Grey’s Anatomy” firefighter spinoff had to press pause on some production meetings while their technical advisors recently played the role of real heroes, executive producer Paris Barclay told reporters on Monday.
“We actually have a lot of real firefighter advisors to the writers,” he said at ABC’s Television Critics Association press tour. “We’ve had production meetings … when they couldn’t actually get to the production meeting because they were actually fighting the California fires.”
“And then we had to come back and send a text and figure out what’s going on,” Barclay continued.