I tend to imagine there's no-one in the studio* anyway, which is why the standards are so ropey.
It's just Pedro on his own, in front of the robot camera, his hysterical pleas and soothsaying sermons on why you must check out your baskets echoing around a vacant studio. His gallery queries and stock updates are imaginary. The viewer texts and people coming in just made up. He's there, on his own…
Gallery staff and floor manager leave him to it. Set things up, then sod off to enjoy a 30min vape and catch up on TikTok.
When they can hear him banging on the table inside they know to nip back in, queue up new on-screen graphics, swap the plastic frying pans over to the solar powered night vision goggles, get him to neck another collagen capsule, tell him he's so funny, and bam - they can sod off to enjoy another 45 minute break outside.
*which given the skeleton crew VGL employ is likely
(No shocked emojis Muttley and Hammy, you are as mucky minded as me) Besides, I mean for his Ovaltine.
