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Monday, October 19, 2020

BBC Studioworks creates Covid-secure environment for Strictly Come Dancing

www.avinteractive.com/news: BBC Studioworks is providing full studio and post production services to BBC Studios’ Strictly Come Dancing and its weekday companion show, It Takes Two, from its Elstree production hub. The eightieth series of Strictly returns to its home in George Lucas Stage 2 at Elstree Studios, with It Takes Two taking up residency for its live weekday shows in Stage 6, on the same site.

3 comments:

Reesha A. said...

Ever since economies around the world have begun to reopen across the globe after being shut down for months at end due to the current global pandemic, every industry has come up with their own set of guidelines and protocols in order to mitigate the risk that Covid-19 represents, given how easily contracted of a disease it is.
With a particular interest in how the entertainment industry is handling this virus, especially with all the unemployment crisis surrounding the industry, I felt so good reading this article, because of how explicitly it talks about the various measures that the concerned company is putting in place to best ensure a safe and healthy environment for all its employees and audiences. Hopefully, these actions will prove fruitful and help the company to continue entertaining the audiences, especially in today’s time, with a pandemic and several million people reeling from its prolonged effects.

Reesha A. said...

Ever since economies around the world have begun to reopen across the globe after being shut down for months at end due to the current global pandemic, every industry has come up with their own set of guidelines and protocols in order to mitigate the risk that Covid-19 represents, given how easily contracted of a disease it is.
With a particular interest in how the entertainment industry is handling this virus, especially with all the unemployment crisis surrounding the industry, I felt so good reading this article, because of how explicitly it talks about the various measures that the concerned company is putting in place to best ensure a safe and healthy environment for all its employees and audiences. Hopefully, these actions will prove fruitful and help the company to continue entertaining the audiences, especially in today’s time, with a pandemic and several million people reeling from its prolonged effects.

Akshatha S said...

I have genuinely been curious how the tv industry and the entertainment industry is going to recover from this pandemic particularly the tv industry. Cable tv loves competition show from singing to dancing to just random stuff so watching these shows move forward has definitely made me nervous yet curious on how they will combat the virus. I have watched a couple of Dancing with the Stars episodes and noticed that they are filling in with fake audience members however that’s the only Covid measure I have seen be taken. Singing competition shows have definitely been one of the competitions I have been more curious about due to the sheer amount of people that are one the show, the amount of production and post production it takes, and the sharing of microphones. I’m happy to see that this article took account microphone situations and has a genuine plan to keep everyone safe. I also like to see that these shows are taking the contestants and judges into consideration and not just viewership to make money. The thing I respected the most is that there seemed to be a genuine care for the production team and how the show should be edited. I think that editors will be working from home for a really long time until this pandemic fully recovers as that is the easiest part of the production to make remote.