The darkness made me wonder when this was taped as well. At the end of
Wednesday's show Corden mentioned that Thursday's show was an 'experiment' so
it's plausible that they did back-to-back tapings Wednesday night or some time
this week.
Steve had mentioned issues with the band's audio during the first show, and
sometimes it's been hard for me to pick out Reggie's vocals from the rest of
the band. When Reggie did a song by himself this week, I didn't notice an
issue.
Corden seems to be almost shouting over the audience noise, particularly during
the monologues/guest intros. That he was doing something similar last night
had me perplexed - this may just be his style when performing in front of an
audience - regardless of size.
While all late-night hosts overdo the superlatives, when I hear Corden do it
I'm flashing to Fallon (or Josh Robert Thompson's Jimmy Fallon fly, I can't be
sure).
David
From: M-D November <[email protected]>
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Sent: Friday, April 3, 2015 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Tonight's Late Late Show
My reaction at the top of the show was "what in the blue hell are they doing?"
And that was pretty much my reaction at the end of the hour.
My assumption was that, much like Conan's 'fire at 30Rock' shows that caused
the show to be booted from their studio (relocating first to Rockefeller Center
itself, then to the Today Show's studio 1A), something had happened at
Television City that forced the show out into the night, and without enough
episodes banked to run a rerun, they resorted to the 'home invasion' angle.
But something doesn't add up about that: assuming the show tapes at ~5:30pm
PDT, the sun would have still been up over greater Los Angeles - and yet it was
pitch black out as Corden was stalking the neighborhood around Television City.
Which leads to two conclusions: either there was a technical issue at TVC
which delayed production and ultimately sent Corden and crew into the
wilderness after sundown, or this episode was shot AFTER another episode
earlier in the week.
There were a couple of positives - last night's episode made, in my opinion,
much better use of Reggie Watts than the previous 5, and there was something
very charming about the intimacy of Beck's performance that you can't capture
in a studio. That being said, the episode itself was a hot mess, and Corden's
format is still too unfamiliar to the average American late night viewer
(stoners & hobos, as SCG would have said) to go and radically 'break' the
format only 2 weeks in. Again, unless this was a hail-Mary to save the
episode, I don't see it as being successful.
David - I'm not sure I'm catching the same audio issues you are. What,
specifically, are you hearing? (Also, could it be the feed from your local
affiliate? I've checked the audio on WCBS/2 NY and KYW/3 PHL and haven't
noticed anything out of the ordinary.)
On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 12:07:45 PM UTC-4, Tom Wolper wrote:
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:56 AM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
<[email protected]> wrote:
Tonight's edition is essentially one long remote from a house in the
neighborhood around CBS Television City. I'm skeptical as to whether it's as
spontaneous as it is made to seem, as the logistics involved would seem to take
too long.
I like the experiment, but it appears that the problems the show has had with
the sound mix aren't limited to the studio.
I started watching and gave up. While it might mean something for an
established show with an established host to break the mold and try a stunt
like this, with this show in its second week and with Corden still an unknown
it just seems off. The reason I stopped watching was that the show was doomed
to the same problem they had when guest hosts did the show from the NY studio -
there's no live audience to work off of, and that kills the pacing of this type
of comedy.
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