The only late night show my TiVo grabs every night is Stephen Colbert's. I catch most of the segments I like from the other shows (mostly Seth Meyer's) on YouTube but Colbert is my only late night One Pass. I like the show a lot but a few little things bug me and I'll mention one here…
I know there are a few folks who work on the show who follow this blog so…would one of you ask your producers or someone to move the guest chair forward about four inches? Tell them their host spends an awful lot of his interviews turned mostly away from the camera. I cannot think of any reason why this is a good thing.
Maybe even show them the above side-by-side comparisons of how Colbert often looks when he's talking to a guest and how David Letterman looked when working on that same stage. Come to think of it, maybe there are plans around that would show you just where the guest seat was placed in relation to Dave's seat. It worked fine for him for more than 21 years.
Mr. Colbert is a handsome guy with an expressive face. Unless you're doing a "twin" thing like The Patty Duke Show or Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap, why make him look like a stand-in has taken his place and you can only shoot him from the back in a two-shot?