Entertainment Tonight, Insider Going High-Def
The switch will come this September.
By Swanni
That's according to an article by Broadcasting and Cable Magazine.
TVPredictions.com reported last October that Entertainment Tonight would switch to high-def in 2008, but this is the first time a launch month has been revealed.
B&C notes that the September debut will mark the first two entertainment newsmagazines to go high-def. Only a handful of syndicated shows are now available in HD.
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"We know now from watching sports that High-Definition really enhances the moment,” Terry Wood, president of creative affairs and development at CBS Television Distribution, told the publication. (CBS owns the two programs.) “When you watch a football game or any sport in high-def, you feel like you are there. Making the viewers who tune in to what we do every day feel like they are on the red carpet or at the Oscars with us is a really important experience for them.”
Both Entertainment Tonight and The Insider feature interviews and 'up-close-and-personal' features on Hollywood celebrities, some of whom have been known to shy away from the candid HD cameras.
Linda Bell Blue, executive producer for both shows, acknowledges that HD will create a new set of demands for the show's staff.
“High-def is a whole new ball game,” Bell Blue told B&C. “The makeup is different, the lighting is different, even the way we shoot is different. We really are blazing a trail here.”
She added: "Everything is so much bigger and brighter and jumps off the screen in High-Definition. Everything from the colors of the actresses’ dresses on the Oscar red carpet to the facets of the diamonds in their rings and necklaces will be more brilliant.”
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