How do you stand out from the sheer volume of Election Night news coverage on Tuesday? By going stay from your personal Quantity.
The artistic staff behind Prime Video’s Election Evening Reside with Brian Williams—Amazon’s maiden voyage into information programming waters—reveals to TVNewser that the one evening solely particular will stream from the leisure big’s Quantity Wall, the identical LED-enabled set-up that Disney+ makes use of to make its blockbuster Star Wars sequence like The Mandalorian and The Acolyte.
And when you shouldn’t count on cross-company appearances from Din Djarin and lil’ Grogu, the particular’s producers, Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, promise that Amazon’s Election Evening protection received’t appear to be anything on tv… broadcast, cable or streaming.
“They’ve shot motion pictures on this set,” Kirshner tells TVNewser. “We’re not on a information studio—we’re on a film lot with this superb LED wall.”
Weiss—who can be directing the particular—echoes his accomplice’s delight at zagging away from the sorts of protection different shops will probably be offering, promising that Election Evening Reside “received’t appear to be each different information present on the market.”
“We’re masking the American election, so it’s going to really feel very Americana,” provides Weiss, greatest recognized for guiding big-time awards exhibits just like the Oscars, the Emmys, and the Tonys. “Bear in mind, we walked onto an empty soundstage with out the assist of a information division or a newsroom or an anchor’s desk. We needed [to create] an setting that represents this nation.”
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And the duo needed to accomplish that feat in a brief period of time. Weiss and Kirshner had been introduced onboard Election Evening Reside by Williams and govt producer Jonathan Wald a mere six weeks in the past. It’s a homecoming of types for each males; earlier than transferring into stay occasions, they minimize their enamel in information manufacturing with Kirshner kicking off his skilled run at ABC Information whereas Weiss served stints at CNN and Washington, D.C.’s Fox affiliate—the place he occurred to overlap with a younger Brian Williams.
“It gave me a really stable basis,” Weiss says these early-career experiences, which preceded the rise of partisan politics inside each information consumption and information manufacturing. “It’s been fascinating to observe over time because the nation has taken this massive flip, and now they’re on this staff or that staff. I’m actually glad that we’re right here to attempt to current info for the center.”
Apart from a Quantity wall that will make Emperor Palpatine envious, right here’s what you’ll be able to count on to see when Election Evening Reside goes stay at 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday. And, by the way in which, you don’t want a Prime subscription to observe—it’s free to view for Amazon prospects across the globe.