Seth Meyers is taking a brief sojourn from late night to primetime.
The “Late Night” host will lead a half-hour special based on his show’s signature “Closer Look” segment that will air Thursday, October 8, at 8:30 p.m., just as the nation focuses more intently on the looming 2020 presidential election. “Closer Look Thursday” will air live from Studio 8G in NBC’s Rockefeller Center headquarters in New York.
Meyers’ “Closer Look” weaves analysis, jokes, outtakes from news reports and clever graphics into a minutes-long vignette that examines the news of the day and often provides a weightier counterpart to some of late-night TV’s regular humor. NBC expects the special to “dissect the events of the day, up-to-the-minute breaking news and other important facts as America begins to cast its vote.”
The host has been in a similar position in the past. He has helped lead primetime half-hours based...
The “Late Night” host will lead a half-hour special based on his show’s signature “Closer Look” segment that will air Thursday, October 8, at 8:30 p.m., just as the nation focuses more intently on the looming 2020 presidential election. “Closer Look Thursday” will air live from Studio 8G in NBC’s Rockefeller Center headquarters in New York.
Meyers’ “Closer Look” weaves analysis, jokes, outtakes from news reports and clever graphics into a minutes-long vignette that examines the news of the day and often provides a weightier counterpart to some of late-night TV’s regular humor. NBC expects the special to “dissect the events of the day, up-to-the-minute breaking news and other important facts as America begins to cast its vote.”
The host has been in a similar position in the past. He has helped lead primetime half-hours based...
- 9/23/2020
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
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