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‘s history last week, the show was recorded without an audience. Instead, questions were posed over a video link to guests, who were sat a healthy distance apart from each other and were stripped of the comfort of a desk on which to jot down their notes. It was a spectacle that would look truly bizarre in normal times, but these are far from normal times.In fact, executive producer Nicolai Gentchev said he has never experienced making television in more unusual circumstances.
He is running the show in much the same way that many of us are living our lives at the moment: taking each day as it comes. That means a spirit of adaptability is running through the conversations with his team — a team that is not just covering the pandemic, but is also part of the evolving crisis. It’s why this week’s show, which will broadcast tonight at 8PM on BBC One, will look and feel different again after prime minister Boris Johnson put the country on lockdown for three weeks.
, which is people scrutinizing policy and the way it’s communicated, and getting to ask their questions,” he explained. “All of this is a work in progress. There is no manual on how to do this, so we experiment and see what works. Last week, we were meant to be in Weston-super-Mare, so we sourced all of our questions from them. This week, we’ll try that again. Next week, who knows. We’re not pretending that this is a scenario we ever planned for.
“This feels like a moment when television brings people together, especially in a time of isolation. And more specifically, the audience appetite for the kind of public service broadcasting that the BBC and others are doing is clearly huge. The thing that we can do that’s a bit different to news programs is, not just to communicate information but to interrogate it and allow people to ask questions,” Gentchev added.
The producer, who oversees the show through independent production company Mentorn Media, said they had a “pretty positive response” to the changes they made last week. Some have even remarked that they preferred the show without a live audience in the room.has stoked criticism and complaints for spotlighting audience members with more extreme political and social views, clipping them up and seeding them out on social media.
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