For Howard Lee, the president of TLC, pivoting reality shows like “90 Day Fiancé” into self-taped series in the era of quarantine is a logistical challenge. But getting the talent on board has been the easy part.
“We’ve already been seeing footage coming in, and we’re already putting it together, because this is the fastest turnaround we’ve ever done,” Lee says, via Zoom, ahead of the April 20 launch of “90 Day Fiancé: Self-Quarantined.” “But a commonality of all of our programming at TLC is ‘I’m often misunderstood. Please listen to me.’ This is just a new way of how to capture that. They’re used to this.”
Prior to Covid scrambling the priorities and production schedules of every shop in the TV business, Lee had already built out TLC — the Discovery Communications-owned network best known, when he arrived in 2008, for the radical candor of the...
“We’ve already been seeing footage coming in, and we’re already putting it together, because this is the fastest turnaround we’ve ever done,” Lee says, via Zoom, ahead of the April 20 launch of “90 Day Fiancé: Self-Quarantined.” “But a commonality of all of our programming at TLC is ‘I’m often misunderstood. Please listen to me.’ This is just a new way of how to capture that. They’re used to this.”
Prior to Covid scrambling the priorities and production schedules of every shop in the TV business, Lee had already built out TLC — the Discovery Communications-owned network best known, when he arrived in 2008, for the radical candor of the...
- 5/14/2020
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
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