One Day At A Time to air animated special while cast and crew are social distancing

Here’s a clever idea that we’re surprised isn’t being done by more shows currently on a forced hiatus because of the coronavirus: One Day At A Time, which is now on Pop TV after Netflix decided it didn’t like good TV shows anymore (#SaveTheOA or whatever!), will be airing a “first of its kind” animated special that will be fully produced remotely. Producer Norman Lear, who created the original incarnation of One Day At A Time, says that he’s “never known of a multicam comedy to animate a single episode as a special,” so he’s excited that it’s something even he gets to experience for the first time (he’s probably right, off the top of our heads, as something like Community was single-cam and its animated episodes weren’t “specials”).