When will this shit end?

[mcshed]

5 minutes ago, gizmoman said:

You say that as if it is a bad thing, Christmas has become far too commercialised and is just a consumption fest. Hopefully this year we can have a Christmas where we appreciate our families and the things we have  and not get carried away with the Black friday nonsense. I am not a christian but I'd still like a period of spirituallity rather than what it has become.

He says it like it's a bad thing because it is indicative of lack of any entertainment being filmed not because the loss of an advert is particularly upsetting.

Nothing is stopping you having whatever kind of Christmas you want and Black Friday hasn't really caught on in the UK in the way some retailers would like.

 

[jparx]

3 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

No John Lewis Christmas advert this year (or whatever they were planning). Apparently they were due to film it this week and every year it’s a massive project that they put together. They will obviously put something in its place, but it will be telling when we get to Christmas how dry content is going to be. Nothing can be filmed, and when the pre-recorded stuff runs out television is going to look rather empty.

It's obviously VERY far down the list of concerns, but I was thinking about the same the other day. TV is going to be a wasteland from the Summer onward. I can see the networks throwing together some new live content to fill the gaps when it's safe to start doing that sort of thing. But you have to imagine, for example, Channel 4 will be hit hard losing things like Bake Off and the drop in add revenue that will follow.

If sport is still behind closed doors come the Autumn, I could see more sport being on free tv. Not quite sure how it works specifically with the contracts owned by Sky and BT, but I know it's been suggested.

[Crazyfool01]

It might not work for all but ive kind of come to the acceptance that Im going to work in small periods of time .... days , even weeks and focus on the length of time that we can have an influence on , and try to keep my spirits up in those periods of time  , none of us can predict the future so hoping for something can only lead to disappointment . So im not considering sport on Tv at the moment My parents 50th wedding anniversary or anything like Christmas ... Tv ( and I watch lots ) will get replaced with something thats more worthwhile if it does go that way .... 

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

19 minutes ago, Ted Dansons Wig said:

CQC? 

This has been ongoing for months now. There has been ample opportunity to define, collate and release effective figures. A delay to give smaller homes time to respond yes - ongoing fudging and obfuscation absolutely not

Before Covid it was never an issue because people weren’t interested in monitoring deaths from a particular virus in real time on a daily basis. I’m not sure refining and shaking up the process for reporting deaths in care homes is a massive priority right now, they’ve probably got bigger concerns to worry about. Maybe in the future it can be looked at for the next pandemic.

[Matt42]

Yes my point was more about it being indicative that entertainment is going to soon catch up with the struggle. We are all passing the time now by watching content but soon new content is going to dry up.

The Apprentice has also not filmed a season this year. TV soon is going to look very empty in terms of content - this is from programs down to advertisements.

Airing films and closed door sporting events is probably what will happen. Then again, that’s not a lot.

Edited April 22, 2020 by Matt42

[fatyeti24]

6 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

Yes my point was more about it being indicative that entertainment is going to soon catch up with the struggle. We are all passing the time now by watching content but soon new content is going to dry up.

The Apprentice has also not filmed a season this year. TV soon is going to look very empty in terms of content - this is from programs down to advertisements.

Airing films and closed door sporting events is probably what will happen. Then again, that’s not a lot.

I don't watch soap operas, but they are surely going to stop soon. 

Time to work through the backlogue.  This pandemic will need to go on for years before I run out of things I've meant to have watched/ read/ listened/ played. 

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

15 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

Yes my point was more about it being indicative that entertainment is going to soon catch up with the struggle. We are all passing the time now by watching content but soon new content is going to dry up.

The Apprentice has also not filmed a season this year. TV soon is going to look very empty in terms of content - this is from programs down to advertisements.

Airing films and closed door sporting events is probably what will happen. Then again, that’s not a lot.

No doubt there will be an impact, but let’s break it down. How long is this likely to affect production of programmes, three months? Obviously a lot of things are filmed in advance so at the moment there will be a decent backlog of stuff still to be aired, that will naturally start to dwindle but it won’t take long to catch up when this is over either. Summer is a dead zone for TV, nobody wants to waste good content then, so as long as production for things can start again in the summer, autumn/winter shouldn’t be affected too much and summer will never have mattered anyway. There will also be a lot of bored writers and producers dreaming stuff up at the moment that otherwise might not have been thought of.

[Matt42]

28 minutes ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

No doubt there will be an impact, but let’s break it down. How long is this likely to affect production of programmes, three months? Obviously a lot of things are filmed in advance so at the moment there will be a decent backlog of stuff still to be aired, that will naturally start to dwindle but it won’t take long to catch up when this is over either. Summer is a dead zone for TV, nobody wants to waste good content then, so as long as production for things can start again in the summer, autumn/winter shouldn’t be affected too much and summer will never have mattered anyway. There will also be a lot of bored writers and producers dreaming stuff up at the moment that otherwise might not have been thought of.

I dunno how much you know about making a tv show but you know you have to film things nearly a year in advance to putting it on the TV? 
 

Production on all things media probably won’t resume till the end of 2020. Which means we will be unlikely to see any of this content till Autumn 2021. There isn’t a way to fast track this really either.

Edited April 22, 2020 by Matt42

[northernringo]

2 hours ago, Superscally said:

Yes there is. It's not just about front line workers, it's about key workers too. 

Based on what figures?

I know in Northern Ireland, any bus drivers, etc. who want to be tested as well can be tested with no issues. Our testing site here are only doing double figures of tests a day.

[gigpusher]

14 hours ago, WhoamI? said:

"In 2014, 80% of homeless people in England reported that they had mental health issues, with 45% having been diagnosed with a mental health condition.^1"

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/statistics/mental-health-statistics-homelessness

 

Yes it's definitely getting way worse over here as well but that is down to Britain actively trying to be more American and that is the thing I will always fight against. We have a duty to protect our most vulnerable people and any efforts to opt out of this duty of care I find abhorrent. 

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

1 minute ago, Matt42 said:

I dunno how much you know about making a tv show but you know you have to film things nearly a year in advance to putting it on the TV? 
 

Production on all things media probably won’t resume till the end of 2020. Which means we will be unlikely to see any of this content till Autumn 2021.

I’d worked out things need to be filmed in advance, I’m aware it’s not all live. If most things are filmed one year in advance then realistically I doubt we’ll even see an impact. Of course anything that specifically needs to be filmed for Xmas is going to be in danger now if it hasn't already been filmed. Otherwise we’ve still got close to years worth of content ready to air surely?

[Matt42]

1 minute ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

I’d worked out things need to be filmed in advance, I’m aware it’s not all live. If most things are filmed one year in advance then realistically I doubt we’ll even see an impact. Of course anything that specifically needs to be filmed for Xmas is going to be in danger now if it hasn't already been filmed. Otherwise we’ve still got close to years worth of content ready to air surely?

We will see an impact because a lot of the programming scheduled for the end of 2020 has had to hault production. I don’t think you can do most of this work at home. 

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

2 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

We will see an impact because a lot of the programming scheduled for the end of 2020 has had to hault production. I don’t think you can do most of this work at home. 

I think a lot of post production could be successfully managed in the current climate, but I’ve no idea in reality, I’m not an expert. I would’ve thought filming is the hard part and if that’s in the bag the rest can be overcome. Obviously things like soaps that are shown every day indefinitely will naturally be affected though, nothing that can be done about that.

[priest17]

47 minutes ago, fatyeti24 said:

I don't watch soap operas, but they are surely going to stop soon. 

Time to work through the backlogue.  This pandemic will need to go on for years before I run out of things I've meant to have watched/ read/ listened/ played. 

Corrie only has enough to last till July, it'll be off air if they can't film again in June.

I wonder if they'll allude to any of this in them, like have one of the goofy characters note someone looks a few months older or something.

[Matt42]

3 minutes ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

I think a lot of post production could be successfully managed in the current climate, but I’ve no idea in reality, I’m not an expert. I would’ve thought filming is the hard part and if that’s in the bag the rest can be overcome. Obviously things like soaps that are shown every day indefinitely will naturally be affected though, nothing that can be done about that.

The big problem is when you need reshoots or post production needing a studio because of its complexity with equipment etc. It creates huge roadblocks.

[Crazyfool01]

4 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

The big problem is when you need reshoots or post production needing a studio because of its complexity with equipment etc. It creates huge roadblocks.

Which like all problems with this virus contingencies and workarounds will come into play ... the bbc and other channels will have thousands and thousands of hours of archives ... we won’t run out ... we will just get different for a while ... maybe we will get some live soaps ... I’m sure that’s been done before ... 

[zahidf]

[Toilet Duck]

10 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

Hello Toilet Duck,

Two things;

(1) If the Government can't accurately count in relatively really low figures eg 20,000, then how are we to expect them to successfully deal with our economy, that is measured in trillions? I just don't get it. It would really seem to me to be a lesson learnt that if they are prepared to be 'economical / inept'  with the truth on this, just what the fuck did they have in store for us?  Surely anybody 'reasonable' would say to the other members of the public ' Oh, hold on, I haven't got a fucking clue on this one', 'I really don't know how to deal with this, so am going to pass it over to someone else in my party, or even the opposition. You don't just plod on like a thick c**t when human lives are at stake, surely.

(2) My wife once had a 'bunch' of alcoholics to her house (actually it was a type of occurrence that went on then for a couple of decades, and still went on here until the Lock Down). On finding out that there was no more drink in the house the next morning, one of these fine fellows said something along the lines of ' well fuck it, it'll have to be the Toilet Duck' - and then proceeded to drink the very same thing which he obtained from her toilet. 

You wouldn't find me doing that. I'm more of a Mr' Matey bloke (see below) - probably because

 

I, at all times, retain a level of sophistication,. 

 

 

Man I loved Matey when I was a kid! Hope you and yours are doing ok, take care. 

[Jamesyp42]

28 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

The big problem is when you need reshoots or post production needing a studio because of its complexity with equipment etc. It creates huge roadblocks.

My Mrs works in TV Production. She was saying that there will be hardly and Xmas specials as a lot of them were due to film around this time. Some shows shoot a year in advance (others even longer), but simple stuff can be about 9 months sometimes. There'll be snags with recording VO for animation/kid's TV as well. I'm work in video game development and we may run into a similar issue. 

There are clearly more important things going on in the world, of course! But we won't see the impact on the creation of new content until the end of the year/start of next. 
Personally, I think it'll be watershed moment for YouTube and creators on those types of platforms, where some of them can reasonably still create content from their house.

(Big up to Limmy's Homemade Show as well. He's got no excuse to give us another series!)

[morph100]

3 minutes ago, Jamesyp42 said:

My Mrs works in TV Production. She was saying that there will be hardly and Xmas specials as a lot of them were due to film around this time. Some shows shoot a year in advance (others even longer), but simple stuff can be about 9 months sometimes. There'll be snags with recording VO for animation/kid's TV as well. I'm work in video game development and we may run into a similar issue. 

There are clearly more important things going on in the world, of course! But we won't see the impact on the creation of new content until the end of the year/start of next. 
Personally, I think it'll be watershed moment for YouTube and creators on those types of platforms, where some of them can reasonably still create content from their house.

(Big up to Limmy's Homemade Show as well. He's got no excuse to give us another series!)

Surely video game development can all be done remotely?

[efcfanwirral]

On the TV side if people run out of shows to watch on Netflix/Prime/Iplayer/all4/Sky (if you have it) then that's seriously impressive... I've got a huge list of shows on some of those that I'm not even getting to during lockdown! 

Man in the High Castle though for anyone who hasn't watched it, absolutely loving that right now 

[Superscally]

2 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Are they taking it down? It's there now.

That's what I was asking! They won't. 🙂

[Superscally]

1 hour ago, northernringo said:

Based on what figures?

I know in Northern Ireland, any bus drivers, etc. who want to be tested as well can be tested with no issues. Our testing site here are only doing double figures of tests a day.

I'm a key worker. I can't get tested.

[Crazyfool01]

5 minutes ago, Superscally said:

That's what I was asking! They won't. 🙂

Are you just gonna turn around and stroll home when you get there then ?  

[zahidf]

Stories that SAGE have recommended mandatory mask wearing.