Hush over Hollywood: why has it become so hard to make films in Los Angeles?

The drop in productions is causing alarm - can Tinseltown halt the exodus and reclaim its spot as the home of movie-making?

When Adam Scott was working on the hit TV show Parks and Recreation in the early 2010s, the Los Angeles studio where the show was filmed was packed - every stage was filled and working".

These days, he told his former co-star Rob Lowe in a much-discussed recent podcast conversation, it's quiet over there" - in part because it's just too expensive to shoot here".