[TV] Late Late Show Goes Black!
Posted by Ashish on 10.28.2009
Watch Craig Ferguson host... in the dark!
Craig Ferguson was forced to host part of last night's Late Late Show by flashlight after a power outage left them in the dark. The lights went out midway through his interview with Alicia Silverstone.
... how did the cameras and broadcasting equipment stay on...?
Posted By: Meirsch (Guest) on October 28, 2009 at 03:53 PM
Late Late Show is awesome! By far the best late night host today! WAVEY RULES!!!!!
Posted By: Knotslip (Guest) on October 28, 2009 at 03:56 PM
How were the cameras still running if there were a power outage.
Posted By: X (Guest) on October 28, 2009 at 04:00 PM
... how did the cameras and broadcasting equipment stay on...?
Posted By: Meirsch (Guest) on October 28, 2009 at 03:53 PM
How were the cameras still running if there were a power outage.
Posted By: X (Guest) on October 28, 2009 at 04:00 PM
have you guys heard of batteries?
Posted By: perry (the blacko rican) (Guest) on October 28, 2009 at 05:31 PM
They probably had the cameras on independent generators or something.
Posted By: Cosmo (Guest) on October 28, 2009 at 05:44 PM
The lights are run on a different breaker system and power grid then the cameras.
Pro lights eat up more juice then anything else in that studio, so I'm assuming something overloaded and blew, hence the lights went out.
Posted By: JP (Guest) on October 28, 2009 at 05:49 PM
did Silverstone leave as soon as the power went out??? thats a fail on her part if that happened
Posted By: dogpound7382 (Guest) on October 28, 2009 at 05:51 PM
"have you guys heard of batteries?"
Oh, right. The backup generators are wired into the cameras and broadcasting boards, rather than any sort of auxiliary lighting array.
So in the case that the studio starts to burn down and the lights go out, at least they can record everybody's hideous screams as they're burned alive. How silly of us to doubt the veracity of Craig Ferguson.
Posted By: Meirsch (Guest) on October 28, 2009 at 07:56 PM
If by midway you mean at the very end, then sure. The lights went out as he was getting ready to throw to commercial. The 2nd interview was obviously taped earlier than the first being as the lights were still on, because the lights were out for the close of the show.
Posted By: TJ (Guest) on October 28, 2009 at 08:34 PM
