A mole Sharma is our media and entertainment editor.

And over the years, he's seen a lot go down in the industry.

But nothing quite like this.

It's the biggest for the industry in 60 years.

And Hollywood is at a standstill.

It's a ghost town.

I mean, all the places that should be producing stuff are shut down.

So every lot is basically very quiet.

You'd normally see a lot of hustle and bustle for producing broadcast shows for the fall

season.

For example, that's not happening.

To understand what brought Hollywood to this point, a mole says one way to think about

it is like an agatha Christie mystery, with suspects, motives, clues and consequences.

I think there's a crime scene.

A crime scene?

Yeah.

It's definitely a crime that's happened upon the entertainment industry here.

OK.

So who's the victim of this crime?

The victim is everyone who has any stake in the entertainment industry.

So the whole industry is the victim.

You can't make shows now.

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