As opposed to John Oliver, who by all reports had truly no clue what was going to happen to him, or how good Last Week Tonight was going to be.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015, 03:57 Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: The latter. It's pretty standard for us Brits to go into something suggesting that we'll be the worst ever, secretly hoping we knock the ball out of the park (to use an inappropriate metaphor). I think that Corden is pretty driven. Indeed he couldn't have got to where he is now were he not. He understands the business to know well enough what's riding on it. On the other hand, he also knows failures - his film Lesbian Vampire Killers for example, or the short lived Horne and Corden sketch show. There was a decent profile of him in The Guardian recently - http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jan/02/james-corden-obe-late-late-show-host-us-tv - which might give you a better understanding of him. I'm not sure how he'll do as a chat show host. If the format is a bit more "standard" then he could be annoying. Indeed I suspect his biggest issue will be holding back his own natural enthusiasm, of which as he guest or panel show host, he seems like he has endless amounts. But then I would never have though Craig Ferguson would ever make a chat show host, knowing him only as a sometime comic actor, who somehow ended up going from cod-Roman sitcom Chelmsford 1-2-3 to Drew Carey. Another aside: if you want to know a bit more about how British talkshows work, then there was a decent Radio 4 Media Show on over Christmas ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vr5j2) which included Graham Norton - who's show is decidedly populist in approach if you've even seen the show on BBC America. But it gives you a flavour of how things work here. There are way fewer outlets offering single shows a week, so it does mean that both he and Jonathan Ross on ITV get pretty decent line-ups most of the time. Aside from breakfast TV or The One Show (the format of which I can't begin to explain), there's nowhere else on TV to really plug your wares. Adam On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:41 AM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: Is Corden just being British or naturally self-deprecating? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11331772/James-Corden-my-Late-Late-Show-is-going-to-be-a-disaster.html David -- -- 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.
