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The Late Late Show with James Corden
GenreTalk show
Variety show
Written byMike Gibbons (head writer)
Directed byTrollbäck + Company
(title sequence)
Tim Mancinelli (main show)
Presented byJames Corden
StarringReggie Watts, The Late Late Show Band
Theme music composerReggie Watts
Hagar Ben-Ari
Guillermo E. Brown
Steve Scalfati
Tim Young
Opening theme"The Late Late Show"
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes157 (as of March 3, 2016) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersRob Crabbe
Ben Winston
Mike Gibbons
ProducersJames Corden
David Javerbaum
Sheila Rogers
Michael Kaplan
Jeff Kopp
Josie Cliff
Production locationsCBS Television City
Los Angeles, California
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time40 minutes (without commercials)
Production companiesFulwell 73 Productions
CBS Television Studios
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseMarch 23, 2015 (2015-03-23) –
present (present)

The Late Late Show with James Corden (also known as Late Late) is an American late-night talk show hosted by James Corden on CBS. It is the fourth iteration of The Late Late Show. Currently airing in the U.S. at 12:37 a.m. Eastern and Pacific Time on Monday through Friday nights (following The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in the CBS late-night lineup), it is taped in front of a live studio audience Monday through Thursday afternoons – during weeks in which first-run episodes are scheduled to air – at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California in Studio 56, directly above the Bob Barker Studio (Studio 33). It is produced by Fulwell 73 and CBS Television Studios.

Corden was announced as the show's new host on September 8, 2014, succeeding Craig Ferguson.[1] Originally scheduled to premiere on March 9, 2015, CBS later pushed back its premiere to March 23, 2015, in order to use the NCAA basketball tournament as a means of promoting Corden's debut.[2]

Production

Corden said he was "thrilled and honoured" and found it "hugely exciting ... to host such a prestigious show".[3] CBS Entertainment Chairman Nina Tassler said in a statement that Corden is a warm, charming and original performer whose "diverse range of creative instincts and performance talent" make him a "rare entertainment force". Tassler cited Corden's work in such media as theater, film and television, and called him "loved and respected" in all of them.[4] The show continues to be filmed at CBS Television City in Los Angeles.[5] Corden made a surprise guest appearance on predecessor Ferguson's program on December 16, 2014, two days prior to Ferguson's last broadcast as host, during which the two briefly discussed Corden taking over the show.[6] He also appeared on an episode hosted by Judd Apatow to job shadow, stating he wanted to "learn from his mistakes".[7]

Unlike his predecessors, Corden's Late Late Show has a house band, nicknamed "Karen",[8] and led by Reggie Watts who also acts as the show's announcer. Reggie also performs as lead vocals, keyboards, beatboxing and programmer.[9] The other personnel in the band are Tim Young on lead guitars, Steve Scalfatti on keyboards, Hagar Ben Ari on bass, and Guillermo E. Brown on drums. The show's title sequence was originally supposed to be directed by J.J. Abrams but instead was filmed by the visual firm of Trollbäck + Company and Reggie Watts and the Late Late Show Band composed the theme song.[10] According to a report in the Daily Mail: "Corden hopes the credits will show him riding a BMX bike around Los Angeles, with other on-screen talent joining him as he reaches the CBS studio."[11] The show's executive producers are Rob Crabbe and Ben Winston.[7] The final product being James Corden and Reggie Watts going around LA in a Low Rider, LED bike, and some graphic and light painting with a Pixelstick. Trollbäck + Company put this statement below the video: "James Corden and Reggie Watts put the LA LA back into Late Late in a series fun vignettes filmed around Los Angeles for the identity of the new CBS Late Late Show. James originally wanted JJ Abrams to film him and Reggie scored to a Mark Ronson track. We were of course honored to take JJ's place as he was a bit busy filming a blockbuster! We managed to shoot everything in one night with LED bikes, a Lowrider, and a Pixelstick setting an eclectic visual tone for this experimental new show."[12]

While an opening monologue is a staple of the late night talk show genre, Corden has suggested that as he is not a stand-up comedian, he will also be using alternatives to the traditional joke-heavy monologue.[13] The show also uses an interview format similar to that of British chat show The Graham Norton Show, in which all of the night's guests appear on stage simultaneously.[14]

On May 7, 2015, a fire broke out on set behind the guests in the cityscape background and forced the production to move outdoors to the roof-top of CBS Television City.[15][16][17]

Episodes

Main article: List of The Late Late Show with James Corden episodes

Tom Hanks and Mila Kunis were Corden's first guests on March 23, 2015, for the debut episode featuring Corden and Hanks acting and singing their way through a retrospective of Hanks' career.[18] Later, after a prompt by Hanks, Corden appeared to score a coup by getting Mila Kunis to admit that she and Ashton Kutcher are married, but a source later claimed she was merely joking.[19] The episode scored 1.66 million viewers, the show's biggest Monday rating in more than three years.[20]

First-run episodes aired every weeknight through the May 2015 sweeps period; then, beginning the week of May 25, the show scaled back its production schedule to four first-run episodes per week (differing from the previous iterations of the program, which produced Friday episodes, either the day of broadcast or farther in advance on the tape date of the Thursday edition), with the Friday episode consisting of a rebroadcast of a recent episode, as has become common with several other late-night talk shows (with the exception of The Late Show and The Tonight Show, which continue to produce first-run episodes on that night, and many airing on cable, which almost universally do not air episodes on Fridays at all). Even with Corden's debut week, Late Night with Seth Meyers still beat The Late Late Show in the ratings during the 12:35 a.m. time slot, with Meyers continuing to dominate that slot on a weekly basis.

The May 20, 2015 episode, which followed the finale of Late Show with David Letterman, was the highest rated episode of The Late Late Show in the history of the franchise with an audience of 4 million viewers and a rating of 2.5.,[21] despite starting 20 minutes late due to Letterman's show running over its scheduled end time.[22] The episode featured Corden and Sting outside of the Ed Sullivan Theater singing "Every Breath You Take" in the show's cold open and a monologue with a Top Ten List among other tributes to Letterman.[23]

Recurring segments

  • Carpool Karaoke, a segment in which James and musical guests sing along to their songs whilst driving in Los Angeles. Corden explained that the segment was inspired by a Gavin & Stacey-themed sketch he had participated in for the British charity television special Red Nose Day 2011, in which he sang along with George Michael in a car, stating that "Ben Winston and I always thought there was something very joyful about someone very, very famous singing their songs in an ordinary situation. We just had this idea: Los Angeles, traffic, the carpool lane — maybe this is something we could pull off." The segments, which have featured artists such as Justin Bieber and One Direction, have proven popular online as viral videos on the program's YouTube channel.[24][25][26] A Carpool Karaoke segment featuring British vocalist Adele reached 42 million views within 5 days, making it the most viral video originating from a late night program since 2013 by beating the trailer for Captain America: Civil War (which premiered on Jimmy Kimmel Live), which reached 31 million views in the same timeframe.[27]
  • Talking Mentalist: Over the summer of 2015, where CBS had aired reruns of its drama programming as a lead-in to The Late Late Show to lead up towards the premiere of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, several episodes opened with Talking Mentalist—a parody of companion talk shows such as Talking Dead and Talking Bad, in which James and his guests would discuss the rerun of The Mentalist that had just aired. After CBS followed suit, the sketch was reprised as Talking Hawaii Five-0, which featured a guest appearance by Talking Dead host Chris Hardwick.[28]
  • Celebrity Noses: A purported game segment surrounding the noses of celebrities, but every attempt to play Celebrity Noses is constantly interrupted by various complications, eventually preventing James from being able to perform the segment at all.[29][30]

Broadcast

In Canada, The Late Late Show with James Corden is aired by CTV in simulcast with CBS. The program formerly aired on sister network CTV Two, but moved to the main CTV network on February 8, 2016 in place of Late Night with Seth Meyers.[31][32]

In Australia, the series was purchased by CBS's Australian partner Network Ten.[33][34] It premiered on Network Ten's sister network Eleven on May 24, 2015 on a seven-day-a-week airing schedule to catch up with the current run through the northern hemisphere summer (by September and the start of the new American television season it had caught up and now airs on a day-delay with encores on the weekend); CBS holds a 1/3 stake in Eleven.[35]

In Asia, the show premiered on August 3 on RTL CBS Entertainment. It airs weeknights at 11:45PM (Singapore Standard Time), following The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.[36]

References

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  8. ^ "Reggie Watts' Late Late Show band is just called Karen". AV Club. March 23, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
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  10. ^ Southern California Public Radio. "Video: 'Late Late' news: Reggie Watts to head Corden's band, Colbert reveals final guests - 89.3 KPCC". Southern California Public Radio. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  11. ^ "BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Now Eddie finds his female side as he prepares to play transgender woman". Daily Mail. January 25, 2015. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
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  13. ^ UPROXX. "James Corden Shares How His 'Late Late Show' Will Be Different". UPROXX.
  14. ^ Raftery, Liz (March 24, 2015). "The 5 Best Parts of James Corden's Late Late Show Debut". TV Guide. Retrieved March 25, 2015.
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  19. ^ Saad, Nardine (March 23, 2015). "Mila Kunis seemingly confirms marriage to Ashton Kutcher on Late Late". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
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  22. ^ "David Letterman signs off from 'Late Show'". Los Angeles Times. May 21, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
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  25. ^ "The secret behind James Corden's 'Carpool Karaoke' sensation". New York Post. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  26. ^ "Niall Horan Answers Selena Gomez Marriage Question in Carpool Karaoke: Watch". Billboard. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  27. ^ "'Adele Carpool Karaoke' Most Viral Late-Night Video Since 2013". Variety. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  28. ^ "Late Night TV: James Corden giving CBS viewers reasons to smile". Orange County Register. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  29. ^ "Nerd Alert: Deadpool Trailer Trivia & Hugh Jackman Photobomb". MovieWeb. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  30. ^ "VIDEO: Allison Janney & Jesse Tyler Ferguson Discuss Sex Scenes on CORDEN". Broadway World. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  31. ^ "THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN Joins CTV Two's Supercharged Late-Night Lineup, March 23". Bell Media. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  32. ^ "The Brit is on the Move: THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN Lands on CTV Just in Time for February Sweeps". Bell Media. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  33. ^ Knox, David (January 9, 2015). "Corden but no Colbert for TEN". TV Tonight. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
  34. ^ Knox, David (March 25, 2015). "No date for Late Late Show with James Corden". TV Tonight. Retrieved March 31, 2015.
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  36. ^ "FIRST AND EXCLUSIVE: THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN AND THE X FACTOR UK ON RTL-CBS ENTERTAINMENT". SkyCable. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
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