Coronavirus effect on the production of tv shows

[tellyblues]

Have to wonder if some production companies have cottoned on that they can get by with skeleton crews now and in future. Not much use though for people looking for jobs to gain entry into the industry.

[Yellow]

Interesting episode of Question Time tonight from a Covid production point of view...

-The perspex screens between the panel are gone, and they seemed to be sitting fairly close together
-Fairly full audience and no masks
-The audience member with 'the jazzy green glasses' was a particular highlight!

I haven't seen the show for ages, but was surprised just how empty the audience was - no social distancing, but the same number of audience numbers, just crammed in to the middle! Must have been less than half-full... wondering if Sebastian Vettel next week is more of a draw!

[Andrew]

Interesting episode of Question Time tonight from a Covid production point of view...

-The perspex screens between the panel are gone, and they seemed to be sitting fairly close together
-Fairly full audience and no masks
-The audience member with 'the jazzy green glasses' was a particular highlight!

I haven't seen the show for ages, but was surprised just how empty the audience was - no social distancing, but the same number of audience numbers, just crammed in to the middle! Must have been less than half-full... wondering if Sebastian Vettel next week is more of a draw!

There seems to be no consistency from week to week, some weeks they have fairly full audiences, the next week they are back to sitting four seats apart from each other. Last night’s audience was very odd both in numbers and how they were sat

Maybe they are struggling to get applicants for the audience these days or maybe staff at Mentorn have been cut back so they’d struggle to properly vet a full sized audience

There also recently seems to have been a very low number of editions from the North.

[adamiow]

Just watched the first episode of the new series of Food Unwrapped and it was dated 2020 and filmed pre-COVID.

I am amazed they still have episodes left to air from so long ago - they have aired plenty of episodes since COVID, so they must have done a lot of filming before COVID. It looks like only the specials shown since COVID have been newly filmed.