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Springwatch exec producer Rosemary Edwards explains how the team kept its ambitions high despite battling lockdown restrictions
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That Springwatch 2020 felt like “a wildlife show, not a pandemic show” was one of the team’s proudest achievements, according to the series’ Executive Producer Rosemary Edwards. Another is how the live OB had to be adapted, with a number of changes that ended up enhancing the end result. Typically, a Springwatch takes 12 to 18
months to plan, with infrastructure put in place around March each year – including the securing of hotel rooms near the location chosen to be the main focus for the team of around 120 staff (plus three presenters) involved on site in producing coverage of the annual three-week live event. But in March 2020 the country went into its
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first lockdown. All plans had to be changed overnight. And that year’s Springwatch was
re-configured and re-planned in just three months ahead of going live on May 26 and running for three weeks. Working in the production team’s favour
was the fact that the show is shot outside and that as species and their seasonal behaviours tend to remain pretty constant, there is a focus each year on how best to evolve how stories are told that season.
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Also, as time passed, a sharp uplift in
interest in – and need for – the countryside not just among Springwatch’s core audience but also the wider public forced to spend
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