Has Covid Leveled Peak TV?

Last week on the TV’s Top 5 podcast, Star Trek producer Alex Kurtzman dropped some numbers that made hosts Lesley Goldberg and Dan Fienberg, two jaded, longtime television writers, stop in their tracks. As talk turned to the strange new world of Covid-19, Goldberg asked how much Kurtzman’s budget had increased on the small-screen Trek franchise as a result of precautionary measures. Kurtzman’s estimate: PPE alone has added between $300,000 and $500,000 in costs to each episode.
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/covid-precaution-protocol-budget-netflix-cancel-peak-tv-1075454/?source=Snapzu