Colbert leaving the house, mum on next location

[David Bruggeman]

At the end of tonight's episode, Stephen noted that the show would be going on a 2 week break (Fridays have often been repeats while he's been broadcasting from home), and would not be broadcasting from his house on his return.

He will also *not* be broadcasting from the Ed Sullivan theater.

Presumably this means that he's following the Conan model of finding a performance space that isn't his home studio.  He didn't say anything about where. 

Tonight's all-to-brief talk with Jon Batiste didn't give any explicit hints about this.  Jon did note he's been checking in from the Knickerbocker Music Center in Westerly, RI, a small club just across the border from Connecticut.  I suppose they could do something similar to what East Coast Jimmy is doing with The Tonight Show and a stripped-down Roots crew.  But I'd think they'd try and find some location in the city or a close-by jurisdiction where it would be permitted.

David

[Jon Delfin]

On the other hand, still no explanation as to why he hasn't gotten a haircut, even though that's been possible since early June. (Ditto Seth Meyers.) 

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[David Bruggeman]

No idea.  I suppose he might have opted to not leave the house, but the occasional references about his family members suggest there have been comings and goings at Casa de Colbert, mainly of his kids.

Conan hasn't gotten his mop cut either, and I think there was a window of time in California where he could have had that done.

From what I can tell of the Jimmys, they've either been getting trims, or their hair doesn't go wild if it grows out.

David

[Tom Wolper]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 9:28 AM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

No idea.  I suppose he might have opted to not leave the house, but the occasional references about his family members suggest there have been comings and goings at Casa de Colbert, mainly of his kids.

Conan hasn't gotten his mop cut either, and I think there was a window of time in California where he could have had that done.

From what I can tell of the Jimmys, they've either been getting trims, or their hair doesn't go wild if it grows out.

CBS has to have some available studio space at Black Rock. The Evening News moved its studio to DC last December so there is a studio with a state-of-the-art control room. Since the crew working the show will be so small it shouldn't take much time at all to prepare a set. And since unlike the previous generation of talk show hosts Colbert does not own his show, decisions like staying at home and letting his hair grow need network approval.

[M-D November]

The Roots are running short-handed? I thought they were just split across 2 levels, like they were during the Late Night years...?

[David Bruggeman]

The one time I checked this week, I counted 4 members, split across the 2 levels.  I think that's less than 50 percent of the band.  Heck, it's less than the usual number Batiste has with him back at the Ed.

David

[Diner]

On Monday night Jimmy welcomed two of their three horn players, who had been missing the previous week.

I think they're still missing a tuba player and maybe a percussionist. It's hard to be sure because they are spread out so wide on 2 levels along the left wall.

BTW, I don't think it's been mentioned, but I realized while watching Monday's show that the new set is in Studio 6A, not 6B. It hit me when I saw Jimmy make his entrance from the right side of the stage.

(He used 6A for the last few months of Late Night, while his Tonight Show set was being built.)

[M-D November]

So what do we think the implication is there?  Is 6A being used as a temporary "no guests, no audience" set while 6B gets an overhaul?

[Jon Delfin]

And 57th Street is partially open, unless they've recreated the "CTM" (I apologize for contributing to the proliferation of that) set elsewhere. Maybe they're giving him Oliver's or Bee's studio? 

[Doug Fields]

>And 57th Street is partially open, unless they've recreated the "CTM" (I apologize for 

>contributing to the proliferation of that) set elsewhere. Maybe they're giving him 

>Oliver's or Bee's studio? 

Why would they give him Oliver's or Bee's studio if they won't give them to Oliver or Bee?

Doug Fields

Tampa, FL

[Jon Delfin]

Because Colbert's 4 or 5 shows a week make a crapload more money for CBS than whatever rental Oliver and Bee are paying.

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[David Lynch]

CBS has to have some available studio space at Black Rock. The Evening News moved its studio to DC last December so there is a studio with a state-of-the-art control room.

As others have said, there are other studios available, but the Evening News broadcast from the same set as CBS This Morning from the 2016 election until the show moved to DC. In the mean time, the studio cum newsroom that the Evening News had been in since the 90s (bar a few weeks/months of renovations in preparation for Katie Couric's tenure) was converted back to just a newsroom.

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[Jon Delfin]

Not sure why you keep saying Black Rock. The building in midtown is all offices, no studios. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Building  

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[Bob Jersey]

Some like to call the place "524," as that's where they asked the mail to be delivered over the years, but Wiki sez its official bldg # is 530.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Broadcast_Center

I take the sanitization of the "This Morning" set was finished, and they can give Stephen back the Ed?

B

Jon Delfin, to David J. Lynch, Tom Wolper, and David Bruggeman, today (7/25):

[Jon Delfin]

And so the thread loops back to the beginning, with Colbert's announcement that he is _not_ returning to the Ed, but going ... somewhere.

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[Tom Wolper]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:34 AM Jon Delfin <jond...@gmail.com> wrote:

Not sure why you keep saying Black Rock. The building in midtown is all offices, no studios. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Building

I have never been in the building so I figured it was like 30 Rock, a building used by the network since the radio days with studios built in. I assume CBS owns studio space in NYC outside of the Ed but that is just an assumption.

[Mark Jeffries]

Actually, Black Rock (designed by the eminent architect Eero Sarrinen, whose wife Aline was a broadcaster at NBC) came along in the 60s.  The network's offices had been located at 485 Madison Ave. which address was given for tickets to shows or when John Daly or Garry Moore asked for contestants for their panel shows.  The Broadcast Center opened in 1952 and became the production HQ in the late 50s after the last facilities were moved out of the Grand Central Station Terminal (master control was still there until 1964).  Radio moved into the Center in 1964 and the radio network is still based there (the radio stations now owned by Entercom moved out some years ago).

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[Dave Sikula]

I’ve been wondering if he’s going to use the space in the Shmotel Shpennsylvania (copyright Dave Barry) on 34th that Jordan Klepper used to use. I assume that if Viacom used it for Comedy Central, CBS can get in there, too.

—Dave Sikula

[M-D November]

All this talk of studio shuffles begs the question - given the "Daily Show" studio is a stand-alone facility (on 11th Ave & 52nd St), why can't Trevor Noah go back to his home base (albeit with a skeleton crew & no audience)?