I'd like to hope they might use this as a reason to cut down the number of episodes permanently, improve the quality and free up the schedules for other programming, but I won't hold my breath.
Surely this will have just cemented how lucky they are to have been making 6 episodes a week as the backlog of episodes has seen them through a much longer period during this production shutdown than they would have had otherwise. And with advertising income on its knees for probably the next few years they'll certainly need Corrie's guaranteed hour of 6m+ viewers every other night.
If anything they'll be looking to add episodes to make up for what they lost.
I guess had they been airing 2, 3 or 4 episodes a week it would have been a similar case of just halving the episode run, so 6 hasn't been a huge advantage - just left more holes in the schedule really.
Presumably will be a long time until soaps do return to normal scheduling. They'll need to wait until production returns to normal until they'll even be able to make enough episodes, which could be a while, then they'll need to build up the backlog of episodes, and of course there's the possibility production could end again at any time so they'll want a decent number of episodes in the can.
Actually going to be interesting to see the episodes once production does resume, presumably they'll have partially filmed some episodes so we'll likely have some episodes consisting of scenes filmed before and after the shutdown and it will be hard to hide a 3 month odd gap in production in terms of the actors appearances and similar.
Actually going to be interesting to see the episodes once production does resume, presumably they'll have partially filmed some episodes so we'll likely have some episodes consisting of scenes filmed before and after the shutdown and it will be hard to hide a 3 month odd gap in production in terms of the actors appearances and similar.
You realise movies are filmed over many months? I’m sure they’ll work around that...
Actually going to be interesting to see the episodes once production does resume, presumably they'll have partially filmed some episodes so we'll likely have some episodes consisting of scenes filmed before and after the shutdown and it will be hard to hide a 3 month odd gap in production in terms of the actors appearances and similar.
Especially when the cast has to do their own hair and make-up. Expect episodes where people have longer hair in some scenes than in others. There's no way they'll be able to match it exactly. Didn't this same problem manifest after the 1979 Strike?
Didn't this same problem manifest after the 1979 Strike?
Probably, although it would presumably been a bit easier in those days because it was filmed pretty much as-live, so more like a play with proper rehearsals before it, so it would have been a fairly linear production process. Whereas now there'll be loads of different crews recording different scenes, with a much bigger cast, and it all being stitched together in the edit suite, so there will be more instances of pre- and post-lockdown material being married together, probably.
I was thinking the other day that in a week or two it will have taken over from 1979 as the longest period in its history where Corrie has halted production.
Presumably will be a long time until soaps do return to normal scheduling. They'll need to wait until production returns to normal until they'll even be able to make enough episodes, which could be a while, then they'll need to build up the backlog of episodes, and of course there's the possibility production could end again at any time so they'll want a decent number of episodes in the can.
Actually going to be interesting to see the episodes once production does resume, presumably they'll have partially filmed some episodes so we'll likely have some episodes consisting of scenes filmed before and after the shutdown and it will be hard to hide a 3 month odd gap in production in terms of the actors appearances and similar.
It’ll generate a bit of chat online and some click bait stories in the tabloids but I’m sure beyond that viewers will accept it.
In any case you often get actors appearing on screen with heavy tans when the character hasn’t possibly been on holiday
Presumably will be a long time until soaps do return to normal scheduling. They'll need to wait until production returns to normal until they'll even be able to make enough episodes, which could be a while, then they'll need to build up the backlog of episodes, and of course there's the possibility production could end again at any time so they'll want a decent number of episodes in the can.
Actually going to be interesting to see the episodes once production does resume, presumably they'll have partially filmed some episodes so we'll likely have some episodes consisting of scenes filmed before and after the shutdown and it will be hard to hide a 3 month odd gap in production in terms of the actors appearances and similar.
It’ll generate a bit of chat online and some click bait stories in the tabloids but I’m sure beyond that viewers will accept it.
In any case you often get actors appearing on screen with heavy tans when the character hasn’t possibly been on holiday
I guess we should be able to accept a character suddenly appearing with a different haircut given we’ve coped with the likes of Tracy and Nick changing their entire heads on occasions.
I wonder though if Craig might become the first character to suddenly appear with a different body overnight...