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Primetime programming questions

MarcB

MarcB

Many (if not all) primetime shows have suspended production due to COVID-19 fears. Once things settle down, will they resume production of the shows and film all remaining episodes to complete the season or will they end the season early?'

Example:

Part 2 of Season 3 of 9-1-1 began airing on Monday March 16th. Including the episodes that aired on March 16th and March 23rd there are a total of 8 episodes to complete Season 3. I doubt they finished filming all 6 episodes that have yet to air. I make that assumption from how they filmed the companion show 9-1-1: Lone Star. That show's Season Finale aired on March 9th. I follow several actors from that show on IG and they both posted about 2 weeks before the finale aired that they had finished filming the Season Finale.
 
MarcB said:
Many (if not all) primetime shows have suspended production due to COVID-19 fears. Once things settle down, will they resume production of the shows and film all remaining episodes to complete the season or will they end the season early?'

Example:

Part 2 of Season 3 of 9-1-1 began airing on Monday March 16th. Including the episodes that aired on March 16th and March 23rd there are a total of 8 episodes to complete Season 3. I doubt they finished filming all 6 episodes that have yet to air. I make that assumption from how they filmed the companion show 9-1-1: Lone Star. That show's Season Finale aired on March 9th. I follow several actors from that show on IG and they both posted about 2 weeks before the finale aired that they had finished filming the Season Finale.
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Depends if the networks or various TV apps want to renew the contract with some shows though after the COVID-19 scares start to decline.
 
If this continues for a couple, three, four more months, we'll be in 95% reruns by the time May rolls around, except for summer programs that were lucky to tape before the COVID-19 pandemic. Fox's Beat Shazam was one of them, they taped in very early March and just made it before the suspension of sports/TV tapings. Same with a couple of ABC's game shows, including Celebrity Family Feud.
I assume Big Brother will not go on if this continues, for the safety of Julie Chen Moonves and the houseguests that could spread COVID-19 in that isolated house. The Canadian version has ceased tapings and there will be no winner.

I also assume several shows will end their season on abrupt notes due to the suspension of tapings.

EDIT: Speaking of, and I know this is far-fetched...could some game shows go the way of 'Let's Ask America'? The host, director, producer, and camera operator are at the studio, and the contestant(s) play the game through Skype/Zoom, and have the chance to win the same amount of money. With tapings suspended I don't see this happening, but it could be a last-resort option.
 
crainbebo said:
EDIT: Speaking of, and I know this is far-fetched...could some game shows go the way of 'Let's Ask America'? The host, director, producer, and camera operator are at the studio, and the contestant(s) play the game through Skype/Zoom, and have the chance to win the same amount of money. With tapings suspended I don't see this happening, but it could be a last-resort option.
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What money? Game-show money comes from sponsors, and if sponsors are shut down or only operating on an as-needed, emergency basis, the game-show money dries up, as do the game shows.
 
crainbebo said:
EDIT: Speaking of, and I know this is far-fetched...could some game shows go the way of 'Let's Ask America'? The host, director, producer, and camera operator are at the studio, and the contestant(s) play the game through Skype/Zoom, and have the chance to win the same amount of money. With tapings suspended I don't see this happening, but it could be a last-resort option.
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Skype Jeopardy ain’t gonna happen.

Production will resume when it’s deemed safe. If that means a delay in the new season, that’s what will happen and life will go on. And if there is a new wave to this pandemic and production shuts down, there will be fewer new episodes. And life will go on.
 
And Big Brother isn’t going to be cancelled over this. Skip a season? Sure. Heck, maybe two of this thing is a horrific disaster. But realistically it works well for many viewers. As do other shows likely to take a rest—The Bachelor, Dancing with the Stars, what have you. They aren’t for me, but if they are for others, more power to them.
 
https://deadline.com/2020/03/greys-...ion-shut-downcoronavirus-covid-19-1202894425/

Update Greys Anatomy will have an earlier season finale than previously planned due to the COVID-19 scare.

Fifteen days ago, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy became one of the first series to suspend production as the U.S. and Hollywood were just starting to grasp the scope of the coronavirus health crisis. The decision was made after the medical drama starring Ellen Pompeo had wrapped production on Episode 21 of its 25-episode 16th season.

At the time, the hiatus was going to be for at least two weeks. Now it has been made permanent for Season 16, which will not resume production to complete filming on additional episodes amid an escalating COVID-19 outbreak in the country that has claimed the lives of more than 1,300 people.
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It looks like it would make sense for the networks to show previews of shows from their streaming services. CBS could use shows from All Access, ABC from Disney+ or Hulu, and NBC from Peacock once it's on.
 
anotherguy said:
It looks like it would make sense for the networks to show previews of shows from their streaming services. CBS could use shows from All Access, ABC from Disney+ or Hulu, and NBC from Peacock once it's on.
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Perhaps, or air some pre-taped summer shows (i.e. whatever game shows got taped before COVID-19) a little bit earlier than normal.
 
anotherguy said:
It looks like it would make sense for the networks to show previews of shows from their streaming services. CBS could use shows from All Access, ABC from Disney+ or Hulu, and NBC from Peacock once it's on.
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I can hear the financial people scream about that. Sort of cannibalizes those streaming services, that they're counting on for new revenue.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I don't know the specifics, but I was looking in the actual newspaper to see what sports are airing and Mixed Martial Arts were listed.
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Tonight's encore of WrestleMania 32 starts at 7 p.m. Eastern, an hour before its first Sunday Night Baseball telecast of the 2020 season would have started. I'll bet that, even though wrestling fans know what happened, it will do very well in the ratings given the lack of live "real sports" competition, especially since many younger WWE fans have little interest in baseball or most other conventional team sports.
 
I forgot to mention this last week but "Mixed-ish" and "Black-ish" had a relevant storyline and I don't know of the right place to put this.

While they probably taped it earlier, it was about getting a flu shot. And one character on "Mixed-ish" who refused got really sick and ended up in the hospital with pneumonia. This episode was the one where Rainbow realized she wanted to be a doctor. In the "Black-ish" episode she was dealing with her mother-in-law's anti-vaccination attitude. She had to repeatedly state that black people don't get a different shot.
 
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