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The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Future of Live Events and Late Night TV With Grammys EP Ben Winston

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3847 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Matt is joined by Ben Winston, executive producer of the 2023 Grammy Awards, to talk about why the Grammys are the most difficult awards show to produce, the messy transition from cable to streaming for live events, the end of 'The Late Late Show with James Corden,' and if it’s possible for a nightly late-night talk show to succeed on streaming. Click here for a 20% discount to Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter 'What I’m Hearing.' Email us your thoughts! [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Ben Winston Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Issa Kwanga and I'm Ryan Hunt.

0:01.8

And we co-host, Stadio, a football podcast on the Ring of Podcast Network.

0:06.1

If you like soccer or football, make sure you search for Stadio, a football podcast on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:16.2

It is Wednesday, February 1st.

0:18.8

The Grammys are this Sunday on CBS.

0:22.5

I'll be there. It's definitely the most fun of the major award shows to attend, and it's famously one of the most difficult shows to produce.

0:27.9

It's live, of course. It's packed with elaborate performances, collaborations between artists who

0:32.4

sometimes don't even know each other. They've all got egos, entourages to manage, and you never

0:37.1

know when a Kanye will

0:38.3

derail the whole thing. I try to go to the Grammys most years, and I remember being there when

0:42.6

Adele stopped her performance and started swearing live on CBS. That was a nightmare situation for

0:48.4

the producers, but it's a normal gig for Ben Winston. Ben is doing his third Grammys, and even though

0:53.8

he's still in his early

0:54.7

40s, he's arguably become the number one producer these days for live events and specials.

0:59.8

He and his company, Fullwell 73, did that great Adele Special, the Griffith Observatory,

1:04.7

the Friends reunion, the Elton John concert on Disney Plus, and he's done one-offs for artists

1:09.4

like Harry Stiles, Bruno Mars, Sam Smith,

1:11.9

Justin Bieber, tons of other stuff. That's in addition to his day job, the thing that brought him

1:16.6

to the U.S. He's executive producer of the late, late show with James Corden, which he's wrapping

1:21.4

up this April after eight years and hundreds of carpool karaoke segments. He's got 12 Emmys and produces the Kardashians reboot on Hulu,

1:30.0

so send him hate mail for that.

1:31.5

But he's the perfect person to talk about the future of live events and talk shows,

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