There are new approaches to every aspect of TV-making, from what stories are told to how they are shot and who gets cast in them. MarkHarrisNYC writes
Illustration: Pedro Nekoi The pandemic abruptly shut down all television production in March, as it did pretty much everything else, but so far there has still been plenty to watch. Late-night shows quickly regrouped, shooting from remote, undisclosed locations or their hosts’ rather nice homes. Saturday Night Live made a stab at Zoomification. And of course there are a zillion hours of streamable shows to catch up on or rewatch.
After that, it gets murkier. Virtual writers’ rooms have already convened, but the process of starting up actual filming is laden with asterisks. Short of quarantining an entire cast and crew and their families in a Truman Show village for the duration of production , there is no way to coronaproof a studio workplace. A set is safe only until someone tests positive, a daily possibility due to the virus’s long incubation.
[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/clay-subheader/instances/ckc9o1t0h001o3h68bslqmucr@published"] span.fancy-divider{display:none} 2. Bye-bye, bicoastals. “I’m not risking a five-hour plane flight so I can stay in some furnished apartment that maybe hasn’t even been cleaned, sit on a set for 12 hours, put on a white coat, and say, you know, ‘The lab results just came back, and the blood on the knife is AB-negative!’ ” one actress told me.
[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/clay-subheader/instances/ckc9o1t6o001t3h68uj5rfzhu@published"] span.fancy-divider{display:none} 5. The end of the extra. Don’t hold your breath waiting for contemporary dramas set in cities to re-create Black Lives Matter protests; any scene into which 20 to 50 extras would formerly have been packed in close proximity will have to be rethought. In movies, the possibilities for digital fakery are endless if there’s enough money, will, and time .
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