[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Dec 31 2003, 12:53 PM\'] [quote name=\'goongas\' date=\'Dec 30 2003, 09:22 PM\']When I attended WWTBAM during its second week of taping, I saw Regis hurriedly leave the studio and walk into his car with a chauffeur waiting. (I was walking out of the building the same instant he was).[/quote]
That, I assume was at the Sony Recording Studios, since the first series was taped there. All of the other episodes to the present day are at ABC--and Regis' apartment is across the street from ABC (or so I've read), so he only has to make a short walk to get to work. Whether he makes the walk himself or Joy, Gelman or security guards accompany him, I have no idea. [/quote]
First eps were indeed shot at Sony. We went to one taping the second week, and Regis seemed a little irritated as to how long the taping took -- making a couple of comments as such to Gelman, who was sitting in the audience. (My recollection is it took about an hour and a half to tape the half-hour episode.)
Some of it was bugs, but other things needed to be worked out -- like taking away and putting back the center podium for Fastest Finger, which took a ton of time. I was sitting to the left of the monitor Regis read the Fastest Finger questions from (a bad idea in itself; you could see him squinting a bit), and deliberately avoided any eye contact to keep things moving ("Why the hell is this guy staring at me all the time?").
Just eliminating the Fastest Finger no doubt makes the syndie version run a lot quicker.