How to provide ‘normal’ TV in a pandemic? Safety measures include giant stages and contestant ‘bubbles’
Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFrom beaming in audiences from their homes on a giant LED screen on Britain’s Got Talent to “bubbling up” the professional dancers with their celebrity partners on
Strictly Come Dancing, broadcasters are trying to bring the nation some feel-good “normal” television this autumn, despite the coronavirus-induced obstacles.
In the week that the
BBC unveiled Strictly’s most diverse line-up yet and BGT returns to ITV, the extraordinary and costly lengths that producers are going to in order to feed the nation’s hunger for the return of reality and talent shows are emerging.