Bold and the Beautiful resumes production

[genius]

“We have some life-like blow up dolls that have been sitting around here for the past 15 years, that we’ve used for various other stories — (like) when people were presumed dead,” says Bell. “We’re dusting off the dolls and putting new wigs and make-up on them and they'll be featured in love scenes.”

Blow up dolls? Is this real (reel) life?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnch...ealing-the-sex/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

 

[installLSC]

Sounds like an episode of SCTV's "Days of the Week".

 

[crainbebo]

We're in a real-life episode of The Twilight Zone, aren't we?

 

[CTListener]

I was trying to think of a "clean" way that phone sex could be shown, so as to avoid the use of the blow-up dolls, but couldn't. I guess the producers don't think anyone wants to watch two masked people telling each other how much they love each other from at least six feet away when on-screen depictions of romance are called for.

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

I was trying to think of a "clean" way that phone sex could be shown, so as to avoid the use of the blow-up dolls, but couldn't. I guess the producers don't think anyone wants to watch two masked people telling each other how much they love each other from at least six feet away when on-screen depictions of romance are called for.

So what was the prop department doing on their lunch breaks?

 

[genius]

Well they may have rushed too soon now for the moment:

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/th...oronavirus-tests-1234640886/#article-comments

 

[MikaelaArsenault]

They really should’ve not continued so soon.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I guess it was the last live "SNL" where they figured out how shows were going to do love scenes, but like so much of what they do it was exaggerated to be funny.

 

[JeeperOne]

Coronavirus is nothing but YET ANOTHER blow to a genre that's ALREADY on its death bed (No pun intended) of the Mainstream TV industry

That genre being soap operas

From the acting, production & writing standpoint, they may eventually recover. But the questions remains HOW LONG will the networks stick with them before they're forced to pull the plug in favor of more profitable programming to recoup some of their resource losses stemming from the loss of live sports programming??

 

[crainbebo]

Even game shows may be affected by this in the long-run. Some may not be able to produce episodes for the fall leading to reruns next season. It's not like Alex Trebek can go to the studio and play 'Zoom' Jeopardy with three players knowing the cheating that could be happening at home. Wheel is tweaking the set for social distancing, but I have no idea what Family Feud is doing. They may not let seniors or vulnerable family members play and may even require masks on set.
TPIR/LMAD same thing. Everyone's packed like sardines into that audience to come on down. They would have to reduce the number of possible contestants by half and possibly require masks. A nightmare logistically for producers, directors and hosts.

 

[vchimpanzee]

It's not like Alex Trebek can go to the studio and play 'Zoom' Jeopardy with three players knowing the cheating that could be happening at home.

Plus there is the possibility of a delay, which makes things unfair. Jerry Bailey was on The Belmont Stakes and every single time he responded it was after a pause of a few seconds.

Wheel is tweaking the set for social distancing,

Everyone has to touch the wheel to spin it so how will that work?

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

Disinfect the handles. That’s the easy part.

 

[Don CT]

Plus there is the possibility of a delay, which makes things unfair. Jerry Bailey was on The Belmont Stakes and every single time he responded it was after a pause of a few seconds. Everyone has to touch the wheel to spin it so how will that work?

Pat spins for everyone!

 

[anotherguyTN]

I had thought even before recent events that the networks could either go to more news and talk shows in daytime in the future, or turn more time back over to local stations. More syndicated celebrity talk shows like Ryan and Kelly, Ellen, etc. might not be so bad, even though I might not watch them regularly, but there could also get to be more trash talk like Springer, Maury, etc. And then there's the worst option of all in infomercials, which too many stations would probably go to.

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

NBC and ABC only have an hour each not in their news divisions—Days and GH, so they’re almost there. Not a lot left to change. CBS has the most network time so there’s more theoretical room to work with.