“We’ve made some changes to some games… but they will be all spinning the wheel. “We walked through our games with the doctors to discuss where we’ll have Drew stand and how the contestants will stand,” she added. The Fremantle team also worked closely with a team of COVID doctors. It made sense when it’s 300 and it’s a whole audience, but it felt weird to me for him to be talking down to four people and then having it empty behind them,” she said.Īs with many other production, there are production zones, masks and shields and regular testing. You know how they used to run up the stairs to meet Drew? I felt like it was odd for Drew to be talking down to only four people. “We pulled out all the audience chairs and we put in decking and we’ve now made it all one level. Decking has been put on top of the area that the audience used to sit and each contestant on Bidder’s Row are now six feet apart. ‘The Morning Show’ To Resume Production On Season 2 With Steve Carell Returning To Apple Series “I wanted to maximize the amount of time we could have reduced exposure to other shows and other people,” she added. Warfel is also moving the production days so that one of the days of filming will be Sunday, when there are fewer people on the lot. To make up for this, the team are increasing the number of episodes they film a day from two to three. Season 49 of the show would have previously started in mid-August with episodes on air at the end of September. It was also important to me to keep the ‘Come on Down”,” she added. So, they’ll see all their favorite games. We figured out how to bring all 77 games back while maintaining social distancing. “We’re still going to have the same great games. Unlike some other entertainment formats, the Drew Carey-hosted show was not able to have a virtual audience as ultimately it would be impossible to ensure that they weren’t looking online for the actual prices of the items.įans will hopefully be sated, however, that all of their favorite games will be back. If we want to come back, we have to do it safely.” “That was the hardest part of all of this the audience is such a core part of that show, and so, for the first time in 48 years we’ve had to look at it and go okay, we’re bringing the show back and it’s going to be different and we have to hope and know that everyone understands what’s going on and how serious it is and that we want to bring back this show for everyone, but it has to look different. “We decided that we were going to come back without an audience to maintain the safety as best we could for our talent, for the contestants, for our staff and crew.” “We quickly realized we were not going to be able to have 300 people on the show sitting close together,” she said. ‘American Idol’ Heads Into Production On New Season, Slight Changes To Audition Episodes But ABC Series Goes Back Safely To Scale

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