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Exec producer Sarah James explains how the Strictly team’s ‘the show must go on’ attitude was vital to its 2020 success
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Sequins and glamour are key ingredients of Strictly Come Dancing’s unique and enduring primetime appeal. So, too, is high emotion – which for S18 was more to the fore than ever before, Executive Producer Sarah James readily admits. With work on each series typically beginning in February, it was clear almost from the outset that the experience of making Strictly 2020 would be … unique. They already had a number of celebrities in mind – typically the cast isn’t finalised until July, the first members of the creative team were starting to come on board, and ideas for the dance numbers were nascent. Until the first pandemic lockdown got
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underway. “We all thought it won’t last for long, that
it will be fine by September as it was early days in pre-production and in a couple of months everything would be back to normal,” James admits. But then events forced them to think again. “We decided we’ve got to make it as it’s a big show, which means it’s a big chunk of work for lots of people. So, we began picking apart everything we do.”
EVERYONE HAD BEEN SO WORRIED THE SHOW WASN’T GOING TO HAPPEN AT ALL
The new plan started off quite extreme until ‘bubbles’ and then testing came in and it evolved. The big difference was to create a ‘household’ for all the dancers to be in
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