And Now For Something Completely Different
posted in TV |I’m looking forward to the premier of the new This American Life TV show on Showtime. While its almost the stereotype of public radio, I really enjoy the radio version and Kat and I went to the live taping in Seattle two weeks ago. It was great getting to see the preview of the TV show and watching a radio show be taped can be a surprisingly fun event.
There was one interesting bit though- Ira Glass was chatting about the TV show with his director Chris Wilcha. They were talking about what a puzzle it was to figure out how to visually put Ira into the show and Chris said that he came up with a completely original, never done before concept. They would stick him at a desk in the middle of some landscape, by a road, on a beach etc.
I just hope they aren’t so clueless to think this is an actually original concept vs. one of the most brilliant but well known device in the history of television. I just hope they give a little shout-out to the origin of this device by having Ira say “And now for something completely different” at his desk some time.