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CBS Says Stephen Colbert Late Night Show will Require Live Audience to Show Proof of Vaccination
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24 May 2021
NEW YORK (AP) CBS said Monday that Stephen Colbert’s late-night show will return to doing live episodes on June 14, with a vaccinated audience in New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater.
The show produced 205 episodes without a live audience in more than a year because of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Audience members will be required to show proof of vaccination before being allowed in Colbert’s audience, CBS said. Face masks will be optional. Staff and crew members will be tested prior to coming back to work and monitored regularly for signs of symptoms.
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ends its live audience hiatus after one year and 205 episodes. Colbert will host his late night political comedy show at the Ed Sullivan Theatre in front of a full audience on June 14.
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“Over the last 437 days, my staff and crew (and family!) have amazed me with their professionalism and creativity as we made shows for an audience we couldn’t see or hear,” the host said. “I look forward to once again doing shows for an audience I can smell and touch.”
This time last year,
The Late Show strictly stuck to a virtual format from Colbert’s home, eventually bringing on guests at production offices in South Carolina, and then back to its home base in New York City. Colbert ushered in his first COVID show from home straight from his bathtub, also picking up some bragging rights as the first late night host to return to the air after the pandemic started. It’s expected that other late nig
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Morning-News Battle Means CBS Saturday Trio Doesn t Get Weekends Off
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This Saturday-morning news show is supposed to look like the ones that precede it Monday through Friday. It doesn’t.
Co-anchor Jeff Glor isn’t wearing a tie and his colleagues, Michelle Miller and Dana Jacobson, often join him in a weekend outing that seems cut from different cloth than the weekday version to which it is tied. Brian Applegate, executive producer of CBS This Morning: Saturday,” sees no need to stitch everything together.
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“What I really want to do is continue down the path of identifying this show as a unique broadcast that is unlike anything else at CBS News,’ says Applegate, in a recent interview. After years of being promoted lockstep on social media with the weekday program, he says, CBS News is set to launch a distinct social campaign for its Saturday effort.