“We must not talk about it. That’s a recommendation from the station, “says James Acaster in the comic scene in connection with covid-19. Although humor is at stake in this case, according to the Guardian, the authors of television acts face a similar dilemma – if the Koranavirus restrictions allow them to spin at all – at the moment they really stand.
“It’s not to mention it at all,” says Acaster’s statement from Richad Watsham of UKTV, the parent company of Dave. “It simply came to our notice then. When it comes to comedy and entertainment, we’ve always thought we’re giving people an escape, ”Watsham explains.
Fun or reality?
According to the British newspaper, this is the core of the problem: television wants to reflect the reality of viewers’ lives and at the same time offer an escape from it. While Hypothetical shows can forget about the virus and focus on entertainment, in the case of today’s comedies and dramas, they can no longer easily ignore a pandemic in fictional stories.
“We really don’t need a fundamental need to mention it in dramas,” Watsham disagrees. “We’re all used to sitting in front of the TV in an effort to live in another world for a while. So I’m glad that the coronavirus doesn’t reflect our dramas, “he adds.
Nicola Shindler, executive director of Quay Street Productions in Manchester, agrees. “I feel that now and in the foreseeable future, viewers want to run away from unpleasant facts and remember what life was like and what it will be like again,” he says. It is said that the upcoming series of the fight for power will not deal with the pandemic immediately. Actress Sarah Snook said in an interview with Variety magazine that “this is not what the show is about.”
The pandemic affected Sex in the City and Surgeons
On the contrary, the coronavirus theme does not seem to miss the return of the series Sex and the City. The story of four friends who are not afraid to break down anything related to relationships is to be continued after almost twenty years. Sarah Jessica Parker, the protagonist of Carrie’s protagonist, said in January that the coronavirus would “of course be part of the story” of the new series. It will take place in today’s New York and the life of the locals is affected by the epidemic.
The screenwriters of the American sitcom Superstore view the question in a similar way. Set in a large supermarket, it depicts the daily lives of ordinary people. Covid was therefore at the forefront of the sixth series, which began airing in the United States last October. A month later, the series Surgeons returned to the American station ABC in the seventeenth series. The main character, Dr. Meredith Gray, becomes seriously ill and the hospital is flooded with a flood of patients with covid-19.
According to the Guardian, executive producer Krista Vernoff allegedly suggested that Surgeons completely avoid the topic of coronavirus when thinking about the storyline of this series. However, the argument that the biggest medical event of recent times cannot be ignored in the series from the hospital environment won out.
The vaccine can be bought by a country singer
However, some comedies that have no ambition to comment on the state of society, according to the Guardian, are not afraid to take a serious topic boldly. For example, the sitcom on politics in Los Angeles Mayor from American comedian Tina Fey entered television screens in January this year and is taking place in a world after a pandemic. The creators solved it simply by buying the vaccine for everyone by the country singer and the well-known patron Dolly Parton.
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