{"id":221773,"date":"2026-03-26T18:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221773\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:06:06","slug":"how-much-did-lioness-crew-pay-to-close-fort-worth-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221773\/","title":{"rendered":"How much did Lioness crew pay to close Fort Worth streets?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For once, the Fort Worth Zoo was not the cause of traffic nightmares<\/a> on South University Boulevard.<\/p>\n

This week that honor went to the production crew working on the upcoming third season of Taylor Sheridan\u2019s \u201cLioness,\u201d which shut down the stretch between West Lancaster Avenue and Interstate 30 on March 24 and 25.<\/p>\n

Some motorists looking to get around the blockage used Montgomery Street, although the traffic wasn\u2019t much better there.<\/p>\n

Other than the third season of a thrilling, high stakes television show made by a Paschal High School grad whose success promotes the city and gives the average Fort Worth resident a warm sense of pride, what did we get for the inconvenience of having a major thoroughfare blocked for two days?<\/p>\n

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The cost of doing business<\/p>\n

101 Studios,<\/a> the production company doing the filming of the show, paid the city of Fort Worth $250 to shut the street down for two days.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the same as what the city of Dallas charges<\/a> for commercial filming and a little less than the $312 the city of Los Angeles charges<\/a>, according to FilmLA<\/p>\n

Over 20 Fort Worth police officers were on the scene for the two days of filming, Fort Worth Film Commissioner Taylor Hardy said in an email to the Star-Telegram.<\/p>\n

All of them were working in an off duty capacity, police spokesperson Officer Cynthia Wood said in an email to the Star-Telegram.<\/p>\n

Hardy said that officers working on this set were paid \u201cvery competitive hourly rates,\u201d and that 101 Studios pays \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d to police each season.<\/p>\n

Filming for Season 3 of \u201cLioness\u201d in Fort Worth started in October 2025 and wrapped up this week.<\/p>\n

The barricades, traffic cones and signage are all paid for by the production company and provided by a third party company rather than the city, Hardy said. That company also provides the traffic control plan and charges for pickup and delivery of its equipment.<\/p>\n

Any businesses affected by a street closure are compensated by the production company, Hardy said.<\/p>\n

101 Studios spent $250,000 in location fees in Fort Worth this season, she said.<\/p>\n

The production team will usually have someone go door-to-door to let neighbors know filming is happening.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 101 Studios team have been great partners and work hard to coordinate with the community to minimize impact during closures,\u201d Hardy said.<\/p>\n

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Harrison Mantas has covered Fort Worth city government, agencies and people since September 2021. He likes to live tweet city hall meetings, and help his fellow Fort Worthians figure out what\u2019s going on.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For once, the Fort Worth Zoo was not the cause of traffic nightmares on South University Boulevard. This…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8726,86300,116,118,117,86299,68463,86301],"class_list":["post-221773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-101-studios","tag-film-production-fees","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-street-closures","tag-lioness-season-3","tag-local-traffic-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}