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Originally Posted by Marsh.
But... if they stopped functioning and buying shows there will be nothing ready to enter production once they all return to work?  |
That's exactly the valid point I said could be made in the latter half of the quoted post
Ultimately, it boils down to my belief that we won't be seeing TV and film production launching back up for until the end of the year at the
very earliest, and that both conventional short and long-term business plans (as simple as "buy the rights to this TV show") are inadequate for the current global health crisis because of how unprecedented it is. Every non-essential industry should be on pause where possible (with workers being paid as normal - and hey, if massive companies can afford to do that, maybe they can also afford to help health services in any way they can, just as the likes of Premier League clubs and supermarkets are doing), and I personally don't believe that there's any way companies can ensure stability now for whenever they resume business; renegotiating industries such as TV and film production in a post-coronavirus world is going to be incredibly difficult and I imagine there'll be a lot of jobs that existed beforehand that won't exist for a long time afterward