Rhod and Anna's World Adventure

On the 11th of December in LA we went to see the filming of some "live" TV. The programme is called Jimmy Kimmel Live and is shown every weekday night. It's filmed in the El Capitan theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.

So how live is live TV. I knew not to expect real time as the show needs to be filmed in LA to be broadcast at midnight on the East Coast. So with the three hour time change we guessed it would start around 7.30, be done by 8.30 and get edited and pumped out on the east coast at midnight their time, 9pm LA time.

WRONG! We joined the queue and got our seats. Not bad seats. We could see all we wanted. It was then we were told what we would be watching. On the 11th of September we saw Jimmy film the monologue for the show on the 21st December. We then waited whilst they removed all the Christmas decorations and watched him interview Ryan Seacrest (host of American Idol plus other American based TV and radio things) which was due for airing on the 14th December. We then went out side to the car park to watch the live concert by Gnarls Barkley which will also air on the 21st December. So we are part fo the audience for the 14th (we watched it last night and didn't see ourselves) and the part I find most interesting is that we have the potential to appear live on US national TV on the 21st December when we are already back in the UK! That's pretty clever of us I'm sure you will agree. We have a better chance of being on TV for this as we are stood near to him when he does his link for the Gnarls Barkley concert.

It was very funny and very interesting but I don't really understand the live part of it. I would go and see it again and if you are ever in LA it is a very good freebie and very funny.

http://www.jimmykimmellive.net