As I noted after Colbert's first night at home, I'm mostly enjoying the format, as the panels seem less canned and more spontaneous. Tonight's interview with Cate Blanchett was refreshing in its conversational presentation; just two people who like each other having a chat.
Now, that said: Fallon's show continues to be an amateurish nightmare (so he's continuing the standard he set at 30 Rock) and his kids continue to be less charming than he thinks. Meyers's interviews run hot and cold, since he's not the performer Colbert is. The scripted material in the first half-hour is good, although why he continues to give his writer Amber a spotlight is as much a mystery to me as Colbert's obsession with Brian Stack. I can't speak to what Kimmel and Corden are doing, since I rarely watch the former and can't stand the latter. For me, the biggest loser is TDS, because Noah's material is weak (especially without a braying audience), his delivery obnoxious (I'm really growing to hate his lousy dialects and Trump impression), and the correspondents are mostly second-rate (exceptions: Roy Wood, Jr. and Jordan Klepper--though the latter is hampered by not being able to do remotes). The saving grace is that the interviews with public officials and experts have been generally good; far better than the celebrities he drags out. I am ready to go back to real shows, though. --Dave Sikula On Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at 7:33:58 PM UTC-7, stannc wrote: > > It’s only been a month and I can’t believe how much I miss HD-quality talk > shows, with a desk, a set, a band, and two people in the same shot. > > -Stan -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/cfa7c6b4-cb8e-4f04-b18e-2b0c885d0521%40googlegroups.com.
