![]() “I’d like to leave the world of television a little bit better than when I entered it,” she says. She introduced a paid parental leave policy that with 20 weeks of fully-paid time off is thought to be one of the most generous in the industry. In the end, there were a lot of reasons why that space is better for the show and for a quality of life.” ![]() It was a space large enough for a large studio audience and all of that became wildly impractical during Covid and we wanted to be able to control our protocols and know who exactly was in there so it made sense for us to take over an entire studio. When we were shooting in New York, we shared a studio space with a lot of other television shows, so we only had that space for one day per week, which didn’t give us a ton of flexibility. We were looking for a setting that we controlled ourselves. “We looked for a space that really accommodated us well. However, Bee and her team did not move back to the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street in New York, but rather to their own studio in Norwalk, Connecticut. We learned a lot of really valuable lessons by shooting outside, which is that you can literally make this show any place if people just stay quiet enough behind us.” TBS We have fewer woodchippers and leaf blowers blowing my neighbors’ lawns in the studio, which is nice. ![]() You’re much more in control of the environment around you. While the light was free, there were plenty of challenges.Įarlier this year, she returned to the studio. When Covid-19 hit last year, the show, like all of the late-night shows was forced to adapt and Bee filmed it from her house in the woods in upstate New York with the help of her husband Jason Jones and her children. We’ve lived through an entire Donald Trump Presidency, been in a global pandemic, so much has happened in the world and somehow we made 200 episodes of TV on top of that.” “I can’t even remember what my headspace was, I feel like I was a completely different person six years ago. The show premiered on February 8, 2016, months before Donald Trump became President. Whenever possible, we’re trying to think in advance of what makes sense for us.” We knew that this case was going to be argued on December 1, we planned the show to be rooted in that subject. That took a tremendous amount of planning and execution. It’s so stupid and so smart at the same time. ![]() Bee and her team, which includes showrunner Alison Camillo, have built a reproductive justice escape room for the episode starring Philipps. It’s an important issue, but as with much of what the show covers, it’s done with some jokes thrown in. I thought it’d be a fun adventure to shoot it near the Supreme Court,” she adds. “The show has been so vocal on the subject of reproductive justice so it makes sense to talk about the Supreme Court. ‘Full Frontal With Samantha Bee’ Renewed For Season 7 At TBS, Late-Night Series Moves To Thursdays ![]()
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