Variety Streaming Room: Film, TV Executives on Adapting to New Production Challenges During Pandemic
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variety.comBy Klaritza Rico When COVID-19 forced television studios to close their doors, long-running late-night shows such as “Conan” were faced with a dilemma.
Was it possible to keep being funny and lifting audiences’s spirits from home? So, Conan O’Brien and his team set out to recreate their particular brand of comedy via Zoom. “We had no choice,” Jeff Ross, executive producer at Conan and CEO of Team Coco, said during the third episode of the Variety Streaming Room weekly series “Rebooting the Entertainment Industry.” “We went through it during the writer’s strike, after 9/11 — we realized we could do a show.
Now, it’s Conan at home alone with an iPhone and a laptop, Zooming interviews and shooting comedy alone and uploading media from his
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