Lockdown Comedy 'Staged' Moves to BritBox for Its Final Season This March

The coronavirus pandemic changed a lot about the world of entertainment. Lockdowns, filming delays, and new production restrictions shuffled and pushed back the release dates of almost every popular series to some degree or other. Even a lot of the kinds of content we consumed during the early days of pandemic living went through some pretty weird phases (looking at you, Tiger King!) But not everything was terrible. After all, we'd have never gotten a series like Staged in the Before Times.

A comedy about life in lockdown, the series is little more than a high end Zoom call, particularly during its first season, as Good Omens stars David Tennant and Michael Sheen basically play exaggerated versions of themselves in a fictional universe where they've been tapped to star in a West End production of Luigi Pirandello’s 1921 play Six Characters in Search of an Author. (Which is something I wouldn't exactly hate to see happen in real life, is all I'm saying.) But with the COVID-19 pandemic raging, their director Shawn Evans decides to hold rehearsals remotely, and comedy ensues as those meetings devolve into...well, what all our meetings were like back then.

The series' second season got even more meta, satirizing and poking fun at various elements of Hollywood life and productions as the industry began to get back into gear. Its third will aim to wrap the story of Staged up, taking tentative steps back into the real world even as it completely falls further into its own show within a show (and even play within a show) format.