Thursday, August 17, 2006
My Face Still Hurts
Last night's taping of the pilot episode of TRUTH, LIES AND LEWIS BLACK was an absolute barn burner. I've got to admit that my experience with live-to-tape is pretty limited, and this is the first time I've ever written and produced anything in that mode. I started out in the theater, and so last night's taping was a little like going home...and completely out of control at the same time.
Lucky for us we were in the care of Dennis Rosenblatt and an excellent team. It was funny to have done a show that has Mission Control as its centerpiece, and then to spend some time watching the amped-out controled chaos of the control room on TLLB. Truly, Dennis Rosenblatt is now "Flight" in my book.
And then there was Lewis Black. I've written for a lot of people, and it's always fun to see it come to life. This was different: he has such a great way of owning the material that it just made me proud to have written it. It's a little like dancing: when you write something for someone and they're so smart and so good that they hit all the corners inside of it and a few more...that's really something.
And of course he had the audience with him: he was just having such a good time. One thing that's not an expected part of the Lewis Black profile is charm, but he is an immensely charming man. We shot two interview segments in front of the audience last night, and he was terrifically engaging and gracious.
And (starting with John Bowman's great opening)...we laughed like hell. Man, I can't wait to see the final on this one.
Looks like we'll be delivering in a couple of weeks, but no air date yet. You'll see it here when we've got it.
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hi everybody. Just a quick question...im a really huge fan of Lewis Black's work, and i know there isn't an air date scheduled for the show, but does anyone know if it will air in Canada too? cause we have the history channel as well, but it's one of those things where it's the same, but it's also different (not being American, etc...)
The History Channel is different from the Canadian network known as History Television...I know A&E airs there, but I don't know if THC itself does.
Our shows have run on History International (in the UK and Latin America, in the case of DECLASSIFIED)...not sure what to say to our neighbors to the north.
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