Coronavirus effect on the production of tv shows

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Will be interesting to see if social distancing remains in place on most live shows today considering it seems to be sweeping through workforces again.

I think it will for a while. You only need to look at London’s West End to see how quickly one positive case can shut down a whole production if the crew/cast have been in close proximity.

The company I work for are gradually re-introducing “normality” over the rest of this year, so production teams will still be social distancing, working from home etc. to some degree through at least January. I doubt the talent on screen will move any quicker due to caution and good practice which is now in place.

In fact, I don’t think many people have bought into today as the big “freedom day” the government had hoped for, and most of us will just naturally dip our toes into more freedoms as the weeks and months go by and it feels safe to do so. There’s certainly a lot of mask wearing, distancing and general caution in London so far today - it doesn’t feel that different to last week.