In the beginning, it was a cool moment, then it became too much of a reflection of what the regular world is.” NBCįallon opened his first show back at 30 Rock with a song, “It’s Beginning to Look a Bit Like Normal.” It obviously wasn’t, and Purcells admits it was quite the adjustment. I started to feel, and I think this is the case for almost all production, were starting to get sick of people at home. It was a little about trying to find some semblance of normalcy,” he tells Deadline. “We just wanted people to be able to get back to work. Showrunner Gavin Purcell laughs that he felt like a guinea pig being the first late-night show back. This is a similar case for Jimmy Fallon, whose Tonight Show was the first of the late-night shows to return to the studio, in their case 6A in 30 Rock, on July 13. “We really want to try and make a variety show each and every day, and a lot of our show is sketches and bits and field pieces.” “We were tired of doing the show in the garage,” he says. Winston admits that he and his team were “desperate” to get back into the studio, which they redesigned over the summer, with Corden now sitting where the audience used to be, albeit with COVID-19 safety protocols such as social distancing, masks and testing and a much-reduced crew of about 16 people. “This week has felt like we’ve got our show back.” “That felt like the turning point for the COVID show in that it suddenly felt like we were back in our stride,” The Late Late Show exec producer Ben Winston tells Deadline. The CBS show returned to the studio on August 11, previously having spent months filming in Corden’s garage. The most remarkable thing about The Late Late Show’s Spill Your Guts segment wasn’t the disgusting snacks, however, it was the fact that the Brit was in the same room as one of his guests. James Corden spent Wednesday drinking hot dog juice and eating ants with Alicia Keys.

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