On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:03 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > A couple of questions: > > 1. At the end Leno thanked Debbie Vickers, who he said had been the > executive producer since the beginning. We all know the story of the > beginning of Leno's run at the Tonight Show, and I always thought > Helen Kushnick had the title of executive producer then. Was she > really still just his agent in title, while maybe functioning as the > executive producer? Or did Leno just mean that Vickers had been with > the show from the beginning, but not always as EP.
A show can have more than one executive producer. I don't have a copy of The Late Shift available to check out the details, so I will throw this out as speculation: Kushnick was made an EP for her ego and to keep the host happy, and Vickers had enough experience with NBC and/or running a talk show that the network felt confident that she could run the show day-to-day and be a conduit for network communications with Jay, so she was also named an EP. > > 2. Why was the audience so unruly - they were practically heckling > Leno and Obrien, and stepped on several of their lines. Is that > typical for Leno's audience? I used to watch Carson's Tonight Show > fairly frequently in the mid 80s, and my memory is that they always > made a huge deal about not shouting anything out during the taping, > emphasizing that if anyone did anything like that they would be asked > to leave. I only ever saw one person yell something out from the > audience, Johnny was clearly pissed, and sure enough that person was > escorted from the studio. I was also surprised by the audience noise, more so during Prince's performance on Thursday night. The audience wouldn't stop cheering and screaming during the song and drowned him out at parts, as he was doing a slow R&B number. If microphone technology isn't yet at the place where mics can pick up sound only from the stage and not from the audience, then post-production sound editing should take care of the problem. Tom W --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
