James Corden Talks “Feeling Compelled To Come Home” After Nearly A Decade On ‘The Late Late Show’ & The Need For More Risk In British TV – RTS Cambridge
deadline.comJames Corden has opened up about “feeling compelled to come home” after nearly a decade on The Late Late Show, as he urged British TV decision-makers to take more risk.
Corden left the CBS talkshow earlier this year after almost a decade and nearly 1,100 episodes in the presenters chair, and he reflected today for the first time since exiting at the RTS Cambridge Convention, having returned to his home country. “It was very hard to walk away from and very difficult to leave but I felt compelled to come home,” he said. “It feels like such a strange thing to have done for eight years.” “The other day [my wife and I] were back at the place we left when we went to America and I said ‘It’s not that weird we’re back, it feels weird that we ever went,” he told the confab.
Rewinding the clock to 2015 and the start of The Late Late Show, Corden said a lightbulb moment came when him and producers at Fulwell 73 realized: “Oh, hang on, no one knows us here.” “And suddenly I realized I had actually learned from being in plays or writing Gavin & Stacey or presenting A League of Their Own, and we thought ‘we can really build something here’.” He then set out to “make a show that would embrace the internet” while creating a “safe environment that was celebratory.” “Yes it’s on at 12.30 at night but I knew there was an audience who were watching content not just in the linear broadcast fashion,” he added. “So maybe we could make a show that launches at 12.30 but is available to watch all day, all night, wherever you are, and maybe if we do that we will get there.” Corden celebrated CBS for giving him an opportunity, having never appeared on U.S.
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