Seth Meyers is returning to the studio for NBC’s Late Night with a limited crew and no studio audience after Labor Day weekend
Seth Meyers is slated to be back in a traditional studio setup after the comic has been broadcasting his show Late Night from his attic since March.
On Monday, the 46-year-old announced he had just ‘three shows remaining before returning to the studio.’
NBC’s Late Night is expected to take a previously scheduled break next week, which will allow the production to shift back to a studio setup in time for the September 8 broadcast, just after Labor Day.
From Captain’s Quarters: Seth Meyers is one of the longer-haired late night funnymen who’s slated to be back in a traditional studio setup as fears around coronavirus seemingly wane
Meyers is based on the East Coast in New York City, where the coronavirus pandemic has receded in recent months and phased reopenings have taken place.
No word yet on whether Late Night will be back at its home in Studio 8G at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, NBC’s production enclave in midtown Manhattan.
Regardless of where it will be, the show will roll out differently than before with limited production crew and musical accompaniment, the lack of a studio audience and guests who will continue to visit remotely through videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom.
From before: NBC’s Late Night is expected to take a previously scheduled break next week, which will allow the production to shift back to a studio setup; Seth seen on set in 2019
On March 13 of this year, Late Night suspended production as the COVID-19 pandemic forced productions everywhere to be placed on hold while social distancing and quarantine lockdown became the norm.
Roughly two weeks later, at the end of March, Meyers began taping the show from his own residence, dubbed ‘Captain’s Quarters,’ where he has been all summer.
Now, Seth joins Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert and James Corden, who also have all moved their shows back out of their homes to more professional studio surroundings.
Late night funnyman: Seth joins Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert, who have moved their shows out of their homes back to more professional surroundings; seen in 2019
Both Colbert and Corden, who make up CBS’s late night roster with The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and The Late Late Show With James Corden, have moved to out of their home setups as of last week.
Corden is now in a rejiggered production facility in the Fairfax District’s Television City in Los Angeles, while Colbert holds forth in a smaller studio that is part of the Ed Sullivan Theater complex in New York City.
Other hosts who have made the move out of home studios or garages include Conan O’Brien, who is now in a small Los Angeles theater for his show Conan on TBS, while Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight has been back at NBC’s 30 Rock production facility for a number of weeks.
Already: Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight has been back at NBC’s 30 Rock production facility for a number of weeks
He’s back too: The Late Show With Stephen Colbert is now in a smaller studio that is part of the Ed Sullivan Theater complex in New York City; seen during the taping of August 10th’s show