The good thing about film sets, is that they’re temporary. Erected relatively quickly, taken down even faster. So it would seem that the fire at Universal Studios this week caused no permanent damage. According to the president of the Studio Ron Meyer it could all be replaced.

Presumably this doesn’t include the films and TV shows in the vault that were damaged. According to the article in the Guardian that i’m copying most of this from, almost half of Hollywood’s entire output has been lost forever.

Which brings me to the point of this post (that i’m desperately trying to finish so I can get down to the pub and out of the house before Big Brother 9 starts), three little words that we think are very very important to our post-production customers.

Off-site backup.

Please ask us about them next time you’re popping in.

Off to the pub now.