Netflix’s The Four Seasons returned to Beacon this past Wednesday on Veterans Day (11/11/2026) to film inside and outside of CareFull MD Urgent Care, while occupying most of the parking lot of Key Food grocery store. Several of the shows main characters were on set and in the scene, including Tina Fey, Colemen Domingo, Kerri Kenney-Silver and Marco Calvani.

A different film production - the thriller One Night Out set for Prime Video from Amazon/MGM Studios’ Orion Pictures - was filming on the other end of town on Tuesday (11/10/2026) between Main Street and Leonard Street. That area is in the fringe area of the East Side, near the Roundhouse, the Beacon Falls Lofts and St. Joachim & St. John the Evangelist. On the way there is the waterfall of the Fishkill Creek, Durkins Grocery Store, Horse and Lion Barber Shop, the corner deli, and other establishments. A Little Beacon Blog wrote about both of those last week to announce their schedules and street closures.

“What Happened On Set? Was Tina Fey There?”

Yes. Tina Fey arrived by black car in all smiles with her hair set and curled ready for filming inside of CareFull MD.

Coleman Domingo was spotted by Beacon local and red carpet photographer Jeremy Smith, who captioned his video with: “4 seasons still shooting in town, moved from outside my window to my grocery store”

Jeremy was the photographer who captured Coleman, Tina and other actors on the horse carriage at Halloween time a few weeks ago in Beacon going down Main Street. Was a thrilling sight for the community.

“Did they film inside of Key Food? Is that why Key Food got a new setup for the Produce section?”

No. The Four Seasons filmed inside of Key Food’s neighbor, CareFull MD Urgent Care. Key Food seems to have gotten the urge to rearrange things, like when people get inspired and rearrange their living rooms in the middle of the night. Or Key Food is getting ready for a new project and got those new Produce bins for the new setup. Looks nice!

However, Key Food has been in other film productions, including Homeland for Season 6 Episode 8, as well as the Disability Challenge short film written, produced, directed and starred in by Beacon locals Rachel Handler, with makeup and effects created by Jenny Magliano, with an appearance from Twinkle Burke.

“What Was The Scene? Did The Characters Go Into An Urgent Care?

The Four Seasons Actor Marco Calvini, who acted in and directed this episode filmed inside of CareFull MD. His likeness was replaced on the front windows of CareFull MD Urgent Care.

Yes, there was an actor playing a doctor. While we can’t reveal to you what the plot was for this episode, we can tell you that it might air in the Spring of 2027. Maybe in May.

The Italian actor, Marco Calvani, directed this episode. Sometimes the main actors get to guest direct an episode. Marco, however, was a writer/director before The Four Seasons. He had stopped acting 16 years prior. After dinner one night with Coleman and his husband Raul, where Marco and his husband cooked for them an Italian meal, Coleman’s husband suggested to Coleman that Marco would be a good fit for the role of Claude. Marco at first rejected the idea, but did a taping for Tina, who liked it, and so began a very new chapter in Marco’s life. Marco reveals this in his interview with Out on Film, Atlanta’s LGBTQ Film Festival.

Do you remember the purple paneling that is outside of CareFull MD? The set decorators replaced that with similarly branded purple paneling with CareFull MD’s tagline, “Care full of heart,” and included a panel with Marco on it. ALBB is told that Marco’s Italian accent sounds as nice in person as it does on screen.

Set dressers for The Four Seasons undressed the set the next day, swapping back out the fake purple paneling for the original CareFull MD purple paneling to replace everything just how it was. They had also covered the pretty blue/purple swirls in the Exam rooms with a neutral cover, and then removed it when complete. CareFull MD opened the next day Thursday while the set dressers were finishing their work. All was back to normal.

Parking Logistics

To do this, the production occupied more than half of the parking lot of Key Food. It looked like Maximus Deli and Key Food were closed, but both were open. Trucks were parked on either side along N. Walnut and N. Brett Streets. During the day, the parking lot entrance remained open but with a Production Assistant (PA) to direct cars into parking spots. By nightfall, the entrance closed, but Key Food grocery store and Maximus Deli remained open.

How Are The People Of Beacon Handling It?

The Bathrooms / porta potties for crew for The Four Seasons parked next to the Chinese Restaurant.

Patiently. But with a side-eye. And a lot of deep breaths. And complaints about parking. There is both excitement and support for the show and the celebrities, and tolerance for an entire industry dropping into Beacon that is employing people mainly from out of town who are being put up at hotels both inside and outside of Beacon, while opening opportunities for locals to network in order to get on the track to employment in the film industry.

The emergence of major motion pictures filming in Beacon is increasing and regular. So regular, that A Little Beacon Blog emailed the City Administrator Ben Swanson and Mayor Lee Kayriacou to ask if they would be proactively publishing a list of schedules for which productions are filming where.

Plenty of advance notice to the public was initially not given by the City of Beacon on the first round of this filming aside from No Parking signs going up and a Facebook post near Halloween.

For this second round of The Four Seasons filming, a robo-call did go out, but to a segmented part of town, so a majority of the community did not hear it. According to Beacon local Jackie Corley who reports for the Hudson Valley Post, she had also contacted the City of Beacon asking for advance notice. She stated that she appreciated receiving the robo-call in her part of town.

Because this filming happened in the middle of Main Street at businesses that people access on a daily basis, it might have been best to robo-call the entire list. Even though someone might live outside of the film zone, they might be driving through it or to it for various reasons.

How Are The Businesses Handling It?

Business owners are taking notes. Financial treatment of the businesses has been inconsistent, according to what A Little Beacon Blog has learned from numerous businesses. Therefore, we are having a Film Panel for Main Street featuring a panel expert who is a Location Manager (not with these productions) who will answer questions from the public and present different scenarios of how situations could have been negotiated differently to get the business and the film production what they need.

During the filming at the Key Food plaza, all business owners or managers were on-site. CareFull MD’s manager Kim was there all day and through the night to approve or disapprove of physical changes to their building, and make sure care was being given to the space with large numbers of crew members in and out of their storefront. Cleanup and replacement of the branded panels began the following day, and CareFull MD opened again to the public on Thursday.

Key Food managers were there to defend the parking lot if the crew began encroaching on it, such as if driveway access was taken away from the public to shop during regular hours.

Max of Maximus Deli watched the crew set up a free smoothie and sandwich station outside of his business that sells smoothies and deli sandwiches. He told ALBB that he was promised by a Locations contact that a breakfast catering order would be filled, but it was not. Instead, the film-contracted vendor passed out the free smoothies and sandwiches to crew, and hardly anyone from the crew purchased from Max. Nor was he paid a substantial fee for the revenue he lost that day despite being open, he told ALBB. The businesses on either side of him were paid fees that they negotiated, but needed to be aggressive about in order to receive and cover bases for scope-creep.

If you know the decades long histories of businesses of Beacon with the Spirit of Beacon Day with food vendors - even if they are Church Ladies selling bake sales - selling or giving away food outside of a food establishment - or any business that sells related products - you know it does not end well.

To Be Continued…!

As for the treatment and compensation of businesses by these top-tier production companies, hopefully word will reach the Production Managers etc. that Beacon - and other towns in the Hudson Valley - will not be played. Negotiators need to pay fairly.

As for the City of Beacon, ALBB is still waiting for FOIL results of how much revenue they brought in from the filming at Halloween, and how much they billed to use Beacon’s Police. If the City of Beacon is considering waving their permit fee in order to attract film productions here, ALBB does not recommend taking zero revenue. It is recommended to charge competitively for what other municipalities are charging, and then earmark where those dollars go within Beacon. Perhaps to the Parks and Recreation Department to continue to pay After School Program employees good wages, and/or to Summer Camp Fees low, etc.

Now. Who’s next? We have celebrity sight-seeing to do. Tina Fey has been spotted grocery shopping in Key Food. Daniel Radcliff was spotted in the coffee shop Beacon Mercantile. Will Forte works out at Gold Gym and “he is very nice” one Beacon local told ALBB who worked out with him and got a selfie.