A Closer Look, one of the most popular segments on Seth Meyers’ Late Night, is getting another primetime special. The political news segment will air an hourlong special, Closer Look Primetime, live on September 11 at 10pm on NBC.
It comes four years after Meyers debuted A Closer Look, which often draws millions of views on YouTube, as a primetime special in October 2020.
It’s somewhat of a surprise given that even Meyers himself joked in the past that the previous primetime special “under indexed with audiences”. “It was very funny because I think the original plan was to do three of those and then somehow it became one.
It was really exciting to do because A Closer Look live is so much talking and I’m very proud of the fact there wasn’t a stumble or a flub there,” he told Deadline. “I feel like the old SNL butterflies came back in a good way to get through that on a live Closer Look.
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