LIVE PRODUCTION
A staggering 20.6 million tuned in to catch the famous victory with a further 6.5 million live streams online taking the total viewing figure beyond 27 million.
Behind the scenes, though, the BBC team had to work hard to deliver the match. Bigwood has led coverage of major football competitions for the BBC since 2002, but this was ‘undoubtedly the most difficult event I have ever worked on’, he says. Covid-19 safety
protocols were front of mind throughout the planning for the event, particularly around testing and social distancing.
The BBC Sport team had to juggle
producing coverage from 11 different venues for Euro 2020 – ranging from Baku and Bucharest through to Glasgow, London, Munich, Rome, Seville and St Petersburg. With international travel largely prohibited,
the BBC’s coverage was largely produced remotely from dock10 studios in Salford. Of all the games during Euro 2020,
because it was an England vs Germany match, the BBC “tried to throw all our bells and whistles at it,” says Bigwood. UEFA helped by granting the BBC a big presentation platform in the stadium, which made social distancing easier. OB provider Timeline also
helped to deliver the match in UHD. “We were a bit more restricted than normal in terms of our filming ambitions because of Covid. But a huge, huge difference was that, because of the way England progressed through the group, they were able to play the last 16 game at Wembley.”
IT TICKED ALL THE BOXES IN TERMS OF THE HISTORY OF THE MATCHES BETWEEN ENGLAND AND GERMANY
It was almost as if the stars had aligned, says Bigwood. “We were able
to have it at Wembley and obviously the result was amazing.” It’s also a match that will live long in the memory of the team that produced it, he says – particularly in the wake of the pandemic. “For us working on it, everybody had been through a lot, both personally and professionally. And then to get a game and a programme like that and to defeat our biggest rivals, probably other than Scotland, was incredible.” “It was definitely a night to remember.
It was great driving away from Wembley afterwards. It had been a good clean programme and England had gone on. It was amazing.”
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