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'Jeopardy,' 'Wheel of Fortune' cancel audiences due to COVID-19 Fears

https://deadline.com/2020/03/califo...navirus-outbreak-hollywood-impact-1202880622/


Update under the California State of Emergency over COVID-19 the executive order includes reducing gatherings of more than 250 people or cancelling the event.


Citing California public health officials, Governor Gavin Newsom Wednesday night said that gatherings of more than 250 people should be postponed or canceled across the state until at least the end of March. That effectively would ground any Hollywood film and TV premieres, festivals, larger screenings and Emmy campaign events and would temporarily halt the use of live audiences in show tapings, including primetime sitcoms.

All New York-based late-night shows on Wednesday announced that they were not going to employ studio audience starting Monday, citing similar guidance on public gatherings from New York City officials. The major Los Angeles-based late-night shows, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Late Show with James Corden, A Little Late with Lilly Singh and Real Time with Bill Maher, have not moved in to remove audiences. (Most of the top LA-based daytime shows, led by Ellen and Dr. Phil, already are going temporarily audience-free.)
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vchimpanzee said:
Weird that on the very day it was announced there would be no audiences, the two new contestants were a woman who had worked on a cruise ship and a woman who wanted to travel to Europe.
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And WOF had a trip to Italy on the Wheel on last night's episode. Unlike the past several episodes of Price is Right, there was no disclaimer inserted.
 
crainbebo said:
The Price is Right still has tapings scheduled throughout March.
I think it's time to cancel them all and go into reruns.

https://on-camera-audiences.com/shows/the_price_is_right
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According to a friend of mine who just went, they are taking extreme precautions. Anyone with a body temperature higher than 100.4 will not be admitted, nor will anyone who has recently been exposed to someone else with an illness, nor anyone who has been to any "Level 3" territories within the past three weeks: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/warning/coronavirus-europe
 
How many people are gathered in the audience during any taping waiting for George Gray to yell 'come on down!'? If it's over 250 that breaks the Governor's order.
 
Doesn't matter now, anyway. One of Price's models just announced on her Instagram that tapings are cancelled for at least the next two weeks.
 
The upcoming special ABC revival of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, which hasn't taped yet, also appears to have called off having an audience. Wonder how they'll work around the "Ask the Audience" lifeline.
 
Ask the Audience could turn into a Survey lifeline. Like Family Feud. Random survey of people and the highest number shows up with the highest percentage. The host can pull the survey out of some compartment near or at the Hot Seat.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Last night on "Jeopardy" there was a clue about the Sun's corona.

I wonder how much they knew when that was taped.
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I'm not sure how far in advance that episodes are recorded now, but they're probably far enough in advance that the virus issue hadn't come up yet, especially considering that they're also having to work around Alex's cancer treatment.
 
The episode of Wheel with the Italy trip wedge was taped on January 9. I believe Jeopardy! has longer taping/airing gaps than Wheel so they probably taped earlier than that.
 
crainbebo said:
Ask the Audience could turn into a Survey lifeline. Like Family Feud. Random survey of people and the highest number shows up with the highest percentage. The host can pull the survey out of some compartment near or at the Hot Seat.
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They're replacing it with either Ask the Expert or Ask the Host, according to a picture on Instagram posted during the taping. The 50:50 and Phone a Friend (not its successor +1) icons are visible, but the one for Ask the Audience is replaced with one that just shows one person's head instead of the signature three.
 
"Wait! Wait!" on NPR had no audience but they don't care if their celebrity panel lives or dies (that's what Peter Sagal said). I haven't listened to all of it yet but what I heard had lots of coronavirus jokes. Even one caller who happened to be quarantined after he traveled someplace risky.
 
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