TV Production Adapted to Weather the Pandemic. Now What? The unions representing actors and crews are in talks with the studios about extending — and possibly changing — the safety protocols they agreed on in September. Like many other television shows, “Law & Order: SVU” had to adjust to resume production during the pandemic. The actors Ice-T and Jamie Gray Hyder shot a recent episode.Credit...Virginia Sherwood/NBC April 28, 2021Updated 10:42 a.m. ET When it became clear early in the pandemic that it was safer to be outdoors than in, the creators of “Big Shot,” a new Disney+ series being made with John Stamos, started rewriting scenes so they could be shot outside. Then new guidance emerged, which underscored that loading a cast and crew into buses and dispatching them to sites all over Los Angeles posed its own risks. So they rewrote their scripts again so scenes could be shot on sets.