The show made history when James Corden and the rest of the panel, created and named Mo Farah's Olympics celebration, the "Mo-Bot". Farah would go on to use the celebration upon winning gold and the celebration became a sensation.
In some of the series episodes' usual pre-title "panelists arriving for the recording" sequences shot while the show was recorded at Elstree (Film) Studios, a large distinct standing exterior set can be seen in the background, complete with green screen material, on the exterior backlot. This is the Buckingham Palace exterior set being used for the NetFlix series "The Crown", which itself is beside the huge Elstree Studios water tank, which in turn was in use at the time as the site of the "Big Brother (UK)" house.
Filming for the fifteenth series of the sports quiz had been expected to commence in early Summer of 2020 for broadcast on Sky One in August 2020. However, filming was postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Production company CPL Productions then made adjustments to the format of the show, such as all challenges being presented from outside of the studio, to get production up and running in time for that August broadcast date. There were also plans for another series of the European Road Trip spin-off show and for a Christmas Special. When the show was broadcast, the most obvious change within the studio layout was that the studio-based challenges now comfortably occupied the now available floor space previously used by the physical audience seating, rather than being set up in the relatively smaller space between the seating and the usual desk set. This also reduced the need to use the open studio doors to loop some challenges on to the adjacent backlot, although other challenges were exclusively outside.
Perhaps confusingly, some seasons would be recorded in the formerly ATV Borehamwood later BBC TV Elstree complex's Studio D, denoted by the Fairbanks signage, with later seasons recorded in the gigantic George Lucas Stage at the nearby, and similarly named Elstree Studios (the historic film studio complex), denoted by the much larger studio audience seating, and the higher ceiling.
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