"Law & Order", "Gossip Girl" filming hit by NY snow

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Another massive New York City snowstorm threw a wrench in the works for many New York-based television and movie productions on Thursday.

The teen drama "Gossip Girl" and the Philip Seymour Hoffman/Catherine Keener independent movie "A Late Quartet" shuttered production.

NBC's New York-based "Law and Order: SVU" crime series issued an 11th hour production change on Wednesday night. The show was supposed to be shooting on location on Thursday, but production was switched indoors to "SVU's" Chelsea Piers studio on Manhattan's West Side.

"If they were on the streets today with all the snow banks, we'd never be able to get the trucks parked," spokesman Sharon Pannozzo, tells The Hollywood Reporter.

The production also provided courtesy "snow rooms" last night for crew members who have to travel long distance to work, said Pannozzo.

The storm, which began on Wednesday afternoon and picked up steam overnight, dumped 15 inches of snow on New York, shuttering airports and trapping many New Yorkers inside.

The TV series "Blue Bloods" and "The Good Wife", which are also filmed in New York, are working as scheduled, a CBS network spokeswoman said.

- Georg Szalai and Lindsay Powers contributed to this report.

(Editing by Zorianna Kit)