When the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Hollywood earlier this year, shutting down productions and throwing the industry into chaos, not even veteran TV executive Michael Ellenberg, the former HBO…
,” noted that the film and television industry at its core is “a problem-solving business” uniquely equipped to handle a crisis.
The show’s executive producer said the creative team has “had to respond to the moment, and all the ways in which the world has changed in the past six months,” while crafting the second season’s story arc. The nuts and bolts of production have also been radically transformed. “It filters through everything from locations to stage work to how many people are on the set. It has a VFX effect. There’s almost no aspect of production that’s not colored by this.
“It’s got to be fresh and new every year,” he added. “Even with the kind of cast we have and the talent we have, there’s a lot of competition for people’s attention. And audiences are demanding innovation, whether it’s the pilot or episode 205.” Media Res is currently developing “Scenes From a Marriage,” a limited series adaptation of the Ingmar Bergman classic film, for HBO, though Ellenberg said that international co-productions would be a bigger part of the company’s focus moving forward.
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