Exclusive: As the UK braces for lockdown 2.0 on Thursday, TV production will continue, but there will be inevitable side effects for studio comedy and entertainment shows, which are having to shut out audiences once again.
Live studio audiences had only just started to trickle back in August, but fans will no longer be able to attend their favorite shows as new four-week stay-at-home orders come into force on November 5 amid a second wave of coronavirus.
Among the shows impacted will be Strictly Come Dancing, the BBC One’s blockbuster dance competition, which provided an antidote to the Covid gloom for 10.3M viewers on Saturday — one of the show’s best audiences in two years.
But in a notice on the BBC studio audience website, producers said: “We’re sad to announce that we won’t be able to have a live studio audience for Strictly Come Dancing during November.”
They...
Live studio audiences had only just started to trickle back in August, but fans will no longer be able to attend their favorite shows as new four-week stay-at-home orders come into force on November 5 amid a second wave of coronavirus.
Among the shows impacted will be Strictly Come Dancing, the BBC One’s blockbuster dance competition, which provided an antidote to the Covid gloom for 10.3M viewers on Saturday — one of the show’s best audiences in two years.
But in a notice on the BBC studio audience website, producers said: “We’re sad to announce that we won’t be able to have a live studio audience for Strictly Come Dancing during November.”
They...
- 11/3/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
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