On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Salon's Daniel D'Addario has an interesting take on this - and what's been > lost as late night talk has evolved. > > > http://www.salon.com/2014/07/11/fallons_fallacy_what_we_lose_and_gain_as_talk_shows_abandon_the_talk/ >
I know it is really swimming against the tide to try to get the media to focus on the actual data, but I will just point out again that this is not a published, peer reviewed study and its results should be taken with several grains of salt. And even if we do take it seriously, the data reported do NOT suggest any significant difference in the percentage of time devoted to interviews by Dave, Kimmel, Conan, Myers or Hall* - and they spend as much time on interviews reportedly as Leno and Carson did. There is no statistical analysis provided at all, but it is possible that Ferguson and most likely Fallon are spending less time on talk than everyone else. That is somewhat interesting, since Fallon seems to be the most popular of these programs, but it does seem too early to conclude that late night interviews of celebrities is on the way out. Fallon is a horrible (really horrible) interviewer, and his background is in sketch comedy. It is smart for him to do more of what he is good at (or maybe less of what he sucks at). If Justin Timberlake were to take over for Letterman, it would not be surprising if we found after 6 months that he was spending more time singing with guests than telling monologue jokes, but it also probably would not be a sign that late night talk shows were all going to turn into sing-alongs. For a long time now Jon Stewart and then Stephen Colbert have been successful in late night spending less than 20% of their time doing interviews (Colbert probably does more than that actually, since he often has that pre-interview segment with a non-celebrity), so Fallon's success with less interviewing is not exactly new. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
