Coming on the heels of their victory for Outstanding Talk Series at , is looking for more success even after for this crucial season, which is heavily focused on that is turning out to be like no other. It also is a season like no other for the show itself, which saw to the anchor chair on Mondays, rotating with several other hosts on other nights. It is a format that seems to be working brilliantly in lieu of the single host the show has used since its inception.
Joining me to talk about all of it at Saturday’s virtual Contenders Television: The Nominees event were director and supervising producer David Paul Meyer, supervising producer Elise Terrell and news team member Troy Iwata. Meyer, who also is nominated for his direction of the series, talked about why the show is still running on all cylinders. “It’s a great place to work because there’s so many people there who are all sort of performing at the top of their game — from the writers, the producers, the crew, our graphics team, our editors, post,” he said.
“There’s like 150 people at the show, and everybody is sort of focusing on their process, whatever that thing may be, all treating it just as important as the next thing. It kind of is just this beautiful choreography, I think, of it all coming together.” Terrell, who has seen it all in her 20 years working on , explains the magic from her POV.
“One of the things that our team, from our writers and our correspondents and our segment directors, I .