The forced absence of a studio audience is a reality both producers and viewers have been experiencing for a few months now, because of the end of days and all that.
Some shows had attempted to soldier on with empty auditoriums, but then Ant-or-Dec finally decided to remove the ‘Butlins on a particularly low-end evening’ atmosphere of Saturday Night Take Away, the studio echoing in an unsettling way as the uncomfortable crew tried to make up for the lack of noise.It then quickly spread, much like a virus, throughout the TV landscape, touching upon the likes of The Last Leg, The Graham Norton Show, and then across the Atlantic with The Daily Show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and James Corden’s Late Late Show.
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