The set's still ready to go. It's the other part of it that's not.
If you read this yesterday you know that our first scheduled taping of “High School Bowl” for the season won't be happening this Friday. As it turns out, the second taping of the season, scheduled for the Friday after that, won't be happening, either. As of right now, we're still set to go on October 16th with the shoot for the third show of the season, but we'll have to see how that turns out.
As to whether or not we'll make our first air date, currently set for November 7th? If I were a betting person—and I'm not—I'd be tempted to lay money on both “yes” & “no”, just because I have no idea at this moment.
The shoots for this & next Friday were postponed because of the mind-numbingly high Covid rates in some UP counties (64 new cases in Delta County alone yesterday), and the facts that students from those counties were set to join us on campus. That led the Powers-That-Be at NMU, who've done an amazing job of keeping rates at the school as low as humanly possible, to request the delay.
And I really don't fault them for that at all.
The same thing's going on with high school football here in the UP. Schedules were set, and then schools have had to back out, leaving their opponents to find an other teams, also set adrift by the pandemic, to play, or to just bag the week. Some teams will end up playing six games during the truncated season, while other might be able to eke out one or two. It's not fair, but it is what it is, and it's a little bit of what we're having to deal with to get our little quiz show going.
By the way, have I mentioned that if people would just wear masks that we wouldn't have to deal with stuff like this?
8-)
The gang at Public TV 13 will be using the two week delay to put even more finishing touches on the new set and all the electronics that go along with it, so in the end the final result may be even spiffier than it could've been. Let's just hope that “the end” to which I was referring is two weeks away, and not two months, or two years.
Because with the way 2020's been going, you never know.
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