On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 3:25 PM, M-D November <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > When Conan did his post-fire shows he was still doing them from a TV production facility. Figuring out what equipment to take and how to set it up in someone's house takes too much organization to do on the fly. My guess is that the Corden crew did this shoot last Thursday or Friday when the show was dark. If it was earlier this week shooting the episode would have come during post-production time of that day's episode. Craig's "stoners and hoboes" was Tom Snyder's "tokers and jokers." -- -- 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.
