On Saturday, 27 February 2021 at 08:53:11 UTC, tim... wrote:
Having not got useful answers from the TV group, I'm going to try asking
this here

I'm currently watching reruns of Zen on Drama

and the sound is decidedly off

There's no sync between lip movements and the actual spoken dialogue

Sometimes it's off by a small amount and other times it's completely wrong.

And there's lots of panning away from peoples faces whilst they are
continuing to talk.

It's like they didn't record the sound from the original action, just got
the actors to mumble a bit of the dialogue and then dubbed it all in
afterwards

It's a multi-country production so they may have decided that if the are
going to have to dub in multiple languages, they might just as well dub the
English in as well

Is this a known form of TV production, sometimes used, frequently used, or
never used?

Trying to decide whether that is more, or less annoying than when a character walks away from the rest of the cast, speaking, and the people several steps behind hear everything perfectly (rather, they act as if they did, which is what they are being to do).