Jimmy Fallon moves into 6-A at 30 Rock for 6 months

[Fenway1912]

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2013/08/jimmy-unveils-studio-6a/

I find it amazing they built a duplicate set.

 

[KML0224]

The Saturday Today crew is temporarily inside a second floor studio. They gave an explanation to the viewers, cutting to the crew working on the ground floor set.

 

[stdjsb25]

I remember reading something a long time back that NBC once booted Johnny Carson to 6B, and the sets were built into a reverse of how they looked at 6A. The reverse arrangement reportedly upset and confused Carson to the point to where he demanded the sets be rebuilt back to the same way they were in 6A the following night.

And of course NBC booted Saturday Night Live out of 8H on several occasions for election coverage. 1976, most notably, where they were forced to move to Studio 1 in Brooklyn, and again in 83, spreading SNL to two studios in 30 Rock.

 

[1069_KIFR]

WNBC's Live at Five is no longer in 6-B? Letterman (In 6-A) use to go across the hallway and interrupt their newscasts.

 

[Lehos]

When Conan left for California, Late Night moved from 6A to 6B for the Fallon transition. 6A was the new home of Dr Oz

Dr Oz gets his own place on the Upper West Side this year. Seems to me some $$ could have been saved if they had just made 6A the home of Tonight, rather than rebuild Fallon's current studio and then build the Tonight set.

 

[KML0224]

Aren't Studios 6A and 6B the same size? If anything, the Ed Sullivan Theater seemed a bit smaller when I went to three taping of Letterman's CBS show (in 1995, 1997 and 1999).

 

[easttxtv]

And of course NBC booted Saturday Night Live out of 8H on several occasions for election coverage. 1976, most notably, where they were forced to move to Studio 1 in Brooklyn,

I wonder how that worked. Another World and Somerset were both taping in Brooklyn then. Did both shows have some kind of hiatus to make room? Or could it have been late enough in the year (Somerset was cancelled at the end of 1976) that Somerset had already wrapped production?

 

[Fenway1912]

WNBC's Live at Five is no longer in 6-B? Letterman (In 6-A) use to go across the hallway and interrupt their newscasts.

WNBC moved into 3-C last year

 

[rbjones]

Seems to me some $$ could have been saved if they had just made 6A the home of Tonight, rather than rebuild Fallon's current studio and then build the Tonight set.

This is N B C we are talking about. Not much rational thinking seems to happen there these days.

 

[fybush]

WNBC's Live at Five is no longer in 6-B? Letterman (In 6-A) use to go across the hallway and interrupt their newscasts.

WNBC moved into 3-C last year

After spending several years upstairs in 7E, a newly-built smallish studio down the hall from the WNBC newsroom that allowed 6B to be repurposed for the network.

 

[rageradio]

I remember reading something a long time back that NBC once booted Johnny Carson to 6B, and the sets were built into a reverse of how they looked at 6A. The reverse arrangement reportedly upset and confused Carson to the point to where he demanded the sets be rebuilt back to the same way they were in 6A the following night.

And of course NBC booted Saturday Night Live out of 8H on several occasions for election coverage. 1976, most notably, where they were forced to move to Studio 1 in Brooklyn, and again in 83, spreading SNL to two studios in 30 Rock.

On that note.. I remember once seeing, must have been sometimes in the mid/late 70s, I was really young so my memory of this isn't great but one night on the Tonight Show, Johnny Carson talked about a studio in New York ready to go should they ever need it and they cut to a shot of a dark studio, seeing mainly the desk and the couch in the shadow to the left. Was this true? Did I understand that correctly?

 

[gtdradio]

What studio is Seth Meyers going into? Isn't he going into 30 Rock?

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

I find it amazing they (Jimmy Fallon's producers) built a duplicate set.

I thought that they would have moved the set across the hall over the course of a weekend, or a vacation break.

I would think that once Fallon moves back to 6-B for "Tonight", that 6-A will be redone for the Seth Meyers show.

With a two-and-a-half-week gap between Fallon's last 12:30 A.M. (ET/PT) show and the start of his time on "Tonight" (which will also be Meyers' premiere date), that might be enough time for a new set for Meyers to be installed in 6-A.

Hopefully for Fallon's sake, he won't get bumped out of the 11:30 P.M. slot seven months after he starts. ;D

 

[PTBoardOp94]

With a two-and-a-half-week gap between Fallon's last 12:30 A.M. (ET/PT) show and the start of his time on "Tonight" (which will also be Meyers' premiere date), that might be enough time for a new set for Meyers to be installed in 6-A.

Unlikely because of the timeline. My guess would be a set for Meyers in 8G with a 100-110 seat audience, moving to 6A as soon as feasible. Or Meyers stays in 8G and a new set is erected for "Football Night in America" in 2014 in 6A.

I'm also guessing that just moving the "Late Night" set was not feasible because 6A and 6B have different dimensions -- particularly ceiling height.

 

[Fenway1912]

Football Night will be moved to Stamford at some point.

With a two-and-a-half-week gap between Fallon's last 12:30 A.M. (ET/PT) show and the start of his time on "Tonight" (which will also be Meyers' premiere date), that might be enough time for a new set for Meyers to be installed in 6-A.

Unlikely because of the timeline. My guess would be a set for Meyers in 8G with a 100-110 seat audience, moving to 6A as soon as feasible. Or Meyers stays in 8G and a new set is erected for "Football Night in America" in 2014 in 6A.

I'm also guessing that just moving the "Late Night" set was not feasible because 6A and 6B have different dimensions -- particularly ceiling height.

 

[fybush]

I'm also guessing that just moving the "Late Night" set was not feasible because 6A and 6B have different dimensions -- particularly ceiling height.

That, and they're flipped 180 degrees from each other. There are some subtle differences between the 6B and 6A versions of the Fallon set because of the placement of studio doors. The upper tier of the bandstand in the 6A version has to straddle the studio door, which is why there's a ladder going up there instead of the spiral staircase in the original 6B set.