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Post by gerbilfacedgeek on Aug 27, 2024 9:27:25 GMT -5
Family Guy references it too a few times, but never really showed a society affected by it.. I think there's subtle hints on BBC Ghosts, Mike having to do Zoom meetings on his laptop.
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Post by gerbilfacedgeek on Aug 27, 2024 10:00:37 GMT -5
Wrestling without an audience. Enough said. Game shows with compromises. Price is Right with NO audience, then the pod thingies. Let's Make A Deal with the pod audiences and the virtual contestants. Jeopardy! and Wheel with no audiences and wider contestant areas. Family Feud = no audience, Steve stays in the middle of the set, is backed away in his own area for Fast Money. Press Your Luck had no audience, and it was not avoidable like on Wheel and Jeopardy!
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Aug 27, 2024 10:53:37 GMT -5
Wrestling without an audience. Enough said. Game shows with compromises. Price is Right with NO audience, then the pod thingies. Let's Make A Deal with the pod audiences and the virtual contestants. Jeopardy! and Wheel with no audiences and wider contestant areas. Family Feud = no audience, Steve stays in the middle of the set, is backed away in his own area for Fast Money. Press Your Luck had no audience, and it was not avoidable like on Wheel and Jeopardy! I kinda liked the pods for TPIR cause I hate fake enthusiasm and for Jeopardy... I am just hear for the questions. Honestly for Jeopary going back to it on Pluto TV the thing I notice now is Alex Trebek being so sickly and slow due to his cancer which I didn't notice during it
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Post by wildojinx on Aug 27, 2024 12:46:51 GMT -5
SNL had the cast members do solo sketches in their own homes.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Aug 27, 2024 19:29:41 GMT -5
SNL had the cast members do solo sketches in their own homes. They did three episodes under the "SNL At Home" name in 2020. As you said, everyone taped their bits in their own homes. Lot of Zoom based sketches. Even host monologues and musical guest performances were taped in their homes. Then, in December 2021, the Christmas episode had to be retooled due to the Omicron Variant. Paul Rudd did his Five Timers Club monologue with no audience (though with a couple of guests). Tina Fey and Michael Che did Weekend Update (Colin Jost had Covid). Other than that, Rudd and the guests basically just introduced a couple new pre-taped sketches and some classic Christmas sketches.
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Aug 27, 2024 20:57:26 GMT -5
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Aug 27, 2024 21:39:32 GMT -5
SNL had the cast members do solo sketches in their own homes. They did three episodes under the "SNL At Home" name in 2020. As you said, everyone taped their bits in their own homes. Lot of Zoom based sketches. Even host monologues and musical guest performances were taped in their homes. Then, in December 2021, the Christmas episode had to be retooled due to the Omicron Variant. Paul Rudd did his Five Timers Club monologue with no audience (though with a couple of guests). Tina Fey and Michael Che did Weekend Update (Colin Jost had Covid). Other than that, Rudd and the guests basically just introduced a couple new pre-taped sketches and some classic Christmas sketches. The Christmas episode had a great joke during Weekend Update. Che was talking about the judge who got suspended for using the N word, and said "Which is the kind of story that makes me wonder why me and Keenan are the only cast members here."
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Post by wildojinx on Aug 27, 2024 21:39:57 GMT -5
I think there was a Father of the Bride reunion special done over zoom.
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Post by Hobby Drifter on Aug 27, 2024 23:12:58 GMT -5
There were a few Japanese TV shows that had their entire season with most of the characters wearing masks and observing other covid protocols, even if the virus itself wasn’t mentioned directly.
The most recent series of Doctor-X comes to mind. The title character contracted the virus in the first episode and was dealing with the after effects for a bit.
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Aug 28, 2024 0:52:42 GMT -5
Never watched the show, but I remember channel-flipping and seeing All Rise with characters masked up, social distancing, and working behind plastic screens, but they weren't drawing attention to any of it, which was bizarre. "Hey, COVID life really sucks, doesn't it?" was a common conversation with family, friends, and co-workers during this time.
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Aug 28, 2024 1:29:19 GMT -5
I'm currently catching up on a few shows over the summer.
Young Sheldon The connors The neighborhood
it's interesting because they all went about it different way.
The Connors, put it directly into their plot and it just made it more depressing. Also, the fake studio audience wasn't noticeable to me, but made sense why they the storylines were getting darker and sadder since there was no real audience to play off of. Though, I don't understand why they still talked like there was an audience. The neighborhood completely ignored it and you'd never knew what was happening in the real world around this time except for one very special episode that dealt with racism cause you know... that other thing that happened in 2020. Young Sheldon had the good fortune of being a single camera sitcom with no audience, took place in the past, and a main character who already believed in social distancing and good hygiene.
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Post by Andew9001 on Aug 28, 2024 5:40:10 GMT -5
Graham Norton changed things up where they had about 10 people in the crowd and had the in studio guests sit in seperate chairs spread throughout the stage and overseas guests would do video calls in.
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Post by Gunhaver on Aug 28, 2024 10:12:41 GMT -5
Wrestling without an audience. Enough said. Game shows with compromises. Price is Right with NO audience, then the pod thingies. Let's Make A Deal with the pod audiences and the virtual contestants. Jeopardy! and Wheel with no audiences and wider contestant areas. Family Feud = no audience, Steve stays in the middle of the set, is backed away in his own area for Fast Money. Press Your Luck had no audience, and it was not avoidable like on Wheel and Jeopardy! I've got to see some of these. I wasn't watching modern game shows at the time and the thought of them having to adapt for COVID never crossed my mind.
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Post by Gunhaver on Aug 28, 2024 10:15:30 GMT -5
Last Week Tonight, stopped watching during his “void” episodes. He kept his comedy rhythm, so he would pause where the laughs should be….but there’s nothing. He eventually eliminated those pauses and it just became jokes with no pauses. I’m sure the quality was great as ever, just found it too odd to watch. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was similarly very always and hard to watch. Bits I saw looked like they were streamed out of his home, but he kept the same rhythm.
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