I wasn’t entirely sure if I
wanted to do this post if only because it might seem insensitive. But I decided
that I might as well do this anyways since enough has gone on and changed
already that I might as well predict what might be different as a result.
First, I might as well explain what’s changed already.
Some shows like The Resident
and FBI have ended their seasons early due to not being able to film the rest
of what they wanted to. New Amsterdam won’t air a pandemic based episode
anymore which could cause some issues with continuity as they were introducing
Daniel Dae Kim to the show now with that episode. (Ironically, Daniel tested
positive for the virus after filming what was supposed to be a made-up version
of a pandemic.) Will that episode ever air in the future? I don’t know. Other
shows were delayed with their filming and might not be able to air more of
their seasons until when they can go back to when they can film stuff. We might get the rest of seasons much later or perhaps some seasons will be combined in a way or changed in ways that they wouldn't have before.
Somehow, the pilot process was
most affected by this thus far. I thought that was more in February and I don’t
know just how much of it as I would like. If I had to guess, new shows will
still get made in the next season, but there will be a whole lot less of them
than usual and you might not see most of them until midseason. I have no idea
just how many have already been filmed, so we might see a whole new sort of
shows than we normally see as a result.
In addition to less new shows,
there will probably be a lot less cancellations as a result of what is going on
with this pandemic. There will be cancellations for sure and not even stuff
that isn’t already certain or announced. But a lot of what normally would have
been cancelled won’t be this time around.
Depending on how long this
whole thing lasts, it could be quite a while before new episodes start airing
of what isn’t already filmed. So how will networks make up for this deficient?
I think that they might have to import more shows from cable offshoots or their
streaming services to air as if they are new for the first time despite limited
availability before. CBS might air a lot of their all access shows on TV in the
stead of the new shows that they normally would have aired. NBC might do the
same with Peacock. It will be hard to know what will happen with all the shows
since they’ll have to air something and they don’t like to air reruns as much
anymore.
It will be hard to tell how
much this will affect television and for how long. The writer’s strike was the
last major event to have changed TV a whole lot and it was good as Canadian
shows aired. I won’t know for sure what all can and would air in the place of
what we would normally see or how long shows might be messed up as a result.
That’s all I can think of for
adding to this post. I won’t be back on Mondays for a while and this will be
the last of what you will be seeing on Mondays unless I just randomly roll a
Survivor episode here. But the Tuesday updates should remain in the near future
for quite a while and I hope that it doesn’t get messed up in any way like it
was last time. I’ll see you tomorrow with another new post.
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