Day 149 - Tuesday 11th August 2020

Location: London, UK

COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak

Lockdown

I love the soap "Neighbours" as I have mentioned before in this blog.

Well, I think we have now entered into episodes which were filmed with social distancing. By and large you can't really see it, but I did notice that the coffee shop (Harold's) has suddenly got a whole load of new plants (presumably to replace people and make it look less obviously empty) and that the extras have dwindled to single figures.

Neighbours was one of the first shows to go back into production around the world. I believe Emmerdale was the first to resume in the UK.

So far, there has been no mention of a global pandemic and I'm wondering whether there will be. I know they are going to work it in to the storylines for EastEnders. I guess the others have to work out if they want the soap to continue to occupy the "real world" or whether they decide to keep the likes of Erinsborough, Weatherfield or Hollyoaks in a fictional non-pandemic parallel world? We shall see.

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