Timing has been fakakta since the return from the long break. Chris Wallace
was given so much time last night that poor Holland Taylor (whom I don't really
like, but whom I also imagine has amassed some pretty good stories over the
decades) for maybe three minutes jammed into the end. She looked very
distressed as Colbert was billboarding Corden, as though she had forgotten to
say something important.
I wonder, do they make the audience sit through the recorded band appearances?
Considering how awful they are, it'd be a blessing. I also have to wonder if
and when Meyers will get his studio audience back. Personally, I enjoy the
crowd-free shows, but since Colbert and Fallon are each working live (as will
Oliver this weekend), it's obviously not an NYC thing keeping people away,
--Dave Sikula
On Thursday, September 9, 2021, 10:45:31 AM PDT, Mark Jeffries
<[email protected]> wrote:
Unfortunately, as long as they are top-rated in the time slot and on social
media (unless you want to count what some say about "Gutfeld!"), Licht isn't
going to change anything that's important. Considering that Colbert still has
the writers that supported the Rev. Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A. character so
well on the "Report," it's amazing that they seem to be going through the
motions.
(For the record, they've also started squeezing back the first break ads to do
behind-the-scenes shots and lower thirds telling what's coming up and moving up
the last local break so that the show's last act is now either the musical
guest or the last guest into the goodnights. The plug for tomorrow night's
guest goes into the next-to-last break with the band playing the break music,
not the theme with canned cheering, and there's no plug now for "Tooning Out
the News." And the CBS logo bug is now in the left-hand corner of the screen,
but that has to be network-wide.)
Mark Jeffries
[email protected]
On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 4:45 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hope they enjoy it. I found it vertiginous, too fast, and capable of causing
nausea.
Rather than work on the credits, I wish they'd work on the writing and
Colbert's interviewing. Tonight's panel with Martin, Short, and Gomez was a
train wreck, with no focus, wit, or enlightenment. It was four people all
talking over each other to no effect. If a talk show can't make at least two of
those people interesting, it's the show's fault.
--Dave Sikula
On Tuesday, September 7, 2021 at 1:54:45 PM UTC-7 Jon Delfin wrote:
https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/stephen-colbert-late-show-credit-sequence-batiste-1235057860/
but I bet the announcer will continue to lie at the end and say "live on tape"
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