U.K. broadcaster ITV is moving ahead with plans to shoot “Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway” with a live studio audience, despite the country’s accelerating outbreak.
The decision follows a day of emergency meetings by ITV bosses, who have been weighing options — including shooting without an audience — for Saturday night’s live taping of the variety show, which hosts more than 200 guests and is understood to be fully booked.
The decision was made the same day the broadcaster sent a memo to in-house producers stating it is “assessing all productions” and the “preferred option” is for producers to move ahead on shows without audiences, in accordance with commissioning networks.
An ITV spokesperson told Variety: “Our priority is the well-being and safety of all our people and everyone who works with us on our shows and across our business. We are in a developing and dynamic situation so...
The decision follows a day of emergency meetings by ITV bosses, who have been weighing options — including shooting without an audience — for Saturday night’s live taping of the variety show, which hosts more than 200 guests and is understood to be fully booked.
The decision was made the same day the broadcaster sent a memo to in-house producers stating it is “assessing all productions” and the “preferred option” is for producers to move ahead on shows without audiences, in accordance with commissioning networks.
An ITV spokesperson told Variety: “Our priority is the well-being and safety of all our people and everyone who works with us on our shows and across our business. We are in a developing and dynamic situation so...
- 3/13/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
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