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Chasing Life

The Pandemic Will Be Televised

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The entertainment industry is adapting in all kinds of ways during the pandemic, from mannequins on set to robotic cameras. CNN senior writer Lisa Respers France joins CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta to discuss how Covid-19 has impacted the fall TV schedule.    To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's good news for anyone who is starting to worry that they'd run out of things to watch.

0:26.2

The entertainment industry is adapting in all kinds of creative ways to these unprecedented

0:31.3

times.

0:32.4

For example, the free form limited series Love in the Time of Corona was filmed remotely

0:38.4

using things like robotic cameras in the actor's homes.

0:42.0

That's the show you just heard a clip from.

0:45.0

Other shows are using mannequins on set and creating bubbles for the cast.

0:50.4

My colleague, CNN senior writer for Entertainment, Lisa Resper's France, is joining us today

0:55.4

to talk about how the pandemic has changed even challenged maybe even inspired the

1:00.8

fall TV season.

1:02.8

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical correspondent.

1:06.8

And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

1:15.3

You know, the world sort of changed, obviously significantly middle of March.

1:21.2

And that means a lot of TV productions just sort of halted at that time.

1:26.3

People didn't know probably how long it was going to last, what they were going to do

1:30.6

with the rest of their seasons.

1:32.6

So are things starting back up again?

1:35.4

Or are we going to run out of things to watch soon?

1:39.1

As long as you have Netflix, you will never run out of things to watch.

1:42.4

As long as you have HBO Max, which you should be watching, you'll never run out of content.

1:47.9

We did have a lot of pausing in production, but things are starting to pick back up.

1:53.1

But where is it used to be?

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