Sky Studios CEO Gary Davey says the production house has been considering how best to manage a return to filming.
Davey told a virtual meeting of the Broadcasting Press Guild that the primary objective of Sky Studios was to deliver content that could be slotted in to the Sky schedule.
“The first wave of production will be dominated primarily by comedies that by September we’ll be back into production on big projects like like Britannia, for example, which don’t get much bigger than that,” he said. Discovery of Witches, which is filmed mainly on set, is likely to follow.
Davey expected a reduction of people on the studio floor, though emphasised the big numbers were in pre-production.
“We are working on the assumption that Covid will come back in the winter. Now, we don’t you know, we’re not experts on medicine by any means. But it’s prudent to do that because having to shut down a big production and me to shoot would be really quite catastrophic.”
Davey also said that cloud editing, which Sky had been advocating for some time, was now being used out of necessity. “Out of necessity, the whole industry has had its remote editing and post-production and it has worked great.”
