Chuck Lorre: It's "very clumsy" to shoot sitcoms amid a pandemic

USA Today

"The writers room is on Zoom," says Lorre, who has three shows (Mom, B Positive and Young Sheldon) having season premieres on Thursday. "You can't put eight, 10 people in a room together anymore for extended periods of time. One or two of us are on the stage to supervise the production, but the writing and support staff is not on the lot. … When we're shooting, we're showing all four camera (shots) to everyone by remote and you can comment and try to make changes as you go. It's very clumsy compared to just being there and saying, 'Hey, what if we move this word over here or cut this line?' But the alternative is not doing anything, so we have to count ourselves lucky that we're in production."