Virtual audiences, isolation pods – your favourite shows might look different this year, but there’s plenty of TV left in the tank
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Autumn is traditionally when TV unveils its lushest treats of the year. In 2020, though, you might think this can’t possibly be the case. Life has been on hold, to some extent, since March, when almost every TV show in production closed down. Surely, then, the cupboard is bare? But thanks to stockpiling of pre-lockdown footage and some clever tweaks to how shows are made, the major broadcasters and streamers have autumn slates that very nearly constitute business as usual.
When Taskmaster completes its big-money transfer from Dave to Channel 4, for example, Greg Davies will have an excuse to shout at the competing comedians even more than he did before. Everyone will be sitting further away from each other, and they’ll be compensating for the lack of noise from a now-absent studio audience. But the tasks themselves were filmed before the virus arrived.
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