I think Corden has mentioned both Fallon and Ellen as influencing his thoughts
on the show. Which make it much harder for me to be interested in tuning in
regularly. How Reggie Watts is part of the show could change that.
Corden is scheduled to sit with Conan on Thursday.
David
From: Steve Timko <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: James Corden
I wasn't a fan of the first show. He seems to be channeling Ellen Degeneres for
late night. It worked okay last night because both guests have skills as talk
show guests. Tom Hanks is like a set of training wheels. What's going to
happen when he has to make do with the normal 12: 35 am guests?
The taped bit and the Tom Hanks career survey were okay but it seems light on
comedy. Letterman and Ferguson have interesting personalities. Corden will
have to develop that.
Does Norton sit on an office chair? They have L-shaped couches that would work
better than an office chair.
I agree he needs a few months to settle. I predict changes in the format. Sent
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On Mar 24, 2015, at 10:47 AM, Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote:
I've not had a chance to see the show yet. But it sounds as if there are more
than a few steals from Graham Norton (to be found on BBC America I believe).
The host not sitting behind a desk and having guests to his left is also what
Norton does. And he relaxes his guests with alcohol. OK - not an actual bar,
but guests often sip glasses of wine etc. I think it's all part of the idea
that you're at an exclusive party somewhere where everyone is having fun.
I'll withhold judgment until I've actually seen the show as to how well it
works having all the guests at once. In Norton's case it does work, but that's
because he's done some serious homework beforehand. He's thought hard about
routes into linking from guest A to guest B. I'd suggest that's a lot easier
when you only have one show a week and therefore more time to plan. The daily
grind makes things much harder.
I'm not sure that just because the previous host was arecovering alcoholic that
it means it shouldn't be allowed in the future. On the other hand, it always
feels to me that Brits and Americans (West Coast American all the more so) have
very different attitudes to alcohol.
That all said, I'm pretty certain in the UK you'd not be allowed to have an
alcohol sponsor actually on-set like that!
Adam
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
Saw the first episode. I'll check back in a few months and see how he's settled
in. First impressions are that many celebrities are going to struggle sitting
on the couch longer thanthe usual six or seven minutes. Also, the previous host
was very vocal about his years of sobriety and struggles with addiction; I have
no problem with drinking but having a bar on set is either a slap in the face
of the previous host's sobriety or it is a not so subtle way of saying "we
aren't like the last host." Either way, I don't think those messages are the
ones the show ought to be sending. Lastly, Corden laughs at his own jokes too
much. he needs to work that out of his system.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 3:18 AM, 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV
<[email protected]> wrote:
Now that the first episode's come and (thankfully) gone, may I just say that
all my early expectations wererealized? After hearing Corden interviewed on
KPCC's "The Frame," I found him earnest and humble enough, and was pulling for
him to succeed, but the first entry was pretty bad. The opening pre-tape of how
Corden got the job and was trained for it had a fun premise, but went on for
what seemed like days, and the segment with Hanks where they relived some of
his more notable roles made me long for the brevity and wit of the pre-tape.
The panels were actually pretty good; loose and casual. though Corden's
reliance on Reggie Watts's personality and alleged charm seems misplaced at
best. All in all, most of the program felt like the worst parts of an
overly-long awards show.
It's unfair to predict the future of a show based on the first episode, but
suffice it to say, Corden and his unnamed writers have their considerable work
cut out for them.
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--Dave Sikula
On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 12:04:53 AM UTC-7, JW wrote:
>> As far as having all the guests on the set, it depends on whether they're
>> using the Carson model of one guest at a time, in which case the previous
>> guests aren't usually encouraged to interact after they've moved down the
>> couch, or talking to everyone at once in a Bill Maher-type panel. My
>> uninformed guess is that it's the former system.
>
> I suspect that they'll all come on together and that he'll try to make it a
> bit more interactive between the guests. But I guess we'll know next week.
You were right, Adam.
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