Later this month, Amazon Prime will air Gillian Flynn’s “Utopia,” a show that I’m an executive producer of and which features a panic-inducing viral outbreak. Trust me, the irony was not lost on us as we worked to finish the show from our homes over the last six months. We had just locked the season in early February, before the novel coronavirus emerged and sent the entire world into chaos.
But chaos, at least the organized kind, is familiar to TV production. So it should be no shock that television can thrive in such circumstances — and we did. It just took a lot of hard work and ingenuity from the group often tasked with saving the day: the nimble geniuses of post-production.
The “Utopia” team wasn’t alone. At the time that the industry shut down in March, another show I was producing, “Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story,...
But chaos, at least the organized kind, is familiar to TV production. So it should be no shock that television can thrive in such circumstances — and we did. It just took a lot of hard work and ingenuity from the group often tasked with saving the day: the nimble geniuses of post-production.
The “Utopia” team wasn’t alone. At the time that the industry shut down in March, another show I was producing, “Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story,...
- 9/24/2020
- by Jessica Rhoades
- Variety Film + TV
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