The 2020 Emmy-nominated variety talk series — Comedy Central’s “Daily Show With Trevor Noah,” TBS’ “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee,” ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Ol…
The 2020 Emmy-nominated variety talk series — Comedy Central’s “Daily Show With Trevor Noah,” TBS’ “,” ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” and CBS’s “Late Show With Stephen Colbert” — all had to quickly pivot at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Licht also credits “Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj” showrunner Prashanth Venkataramanujam, though, because he sent an email to a group of late-night showrunners who often get together for dinner that said, “What now?,” which led to everyone talking and comparing notes, collaborating rather than seeing each other’s shows as competition.
“We had a virtual control room a couple weeks in,” Licht says. “The director’s at his home, calls the shot. The [technical director], on her laptop [in her home], could switch the shot.” “Sam wanted to do it outside,” Camillo says, noting that once the location was set the team faced more questions. “Can Sam upload from her house? Can we get a prompter on an iPad for her to rig up with what they have at the house? [Exec producer] Miles Kahn loaded up a truck with equipment, put on a mask, dropped it all on their lawn and ran.”
Flanz praises the show’s editors as one of the keys to the remote broadcasts, nicknamed “The Daily Social Distancing Show.” “The show is so heavily edited right now and they’ve been so creative and innovative in how the show is being presented,” she says.
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