Conan O'Brien to resume his late-night talk show on March 30, shot remotely via an iPhone

Variety

Conan plans to resume his late-night TBS talk show Conan by filming remotely with an iPhone with no audience and guests interviewed via video chat. Conan's approximately 75 staffers will help put the show together from their homes. “The quality of my work will not go down because technically that’s not possible,” Conan said in a statement. Conan's longtime executive producer Jeff Ross tells Variety the late-night host “likes to work. He likes to make stuff – as we all do. We are in the business of making content and this what we do. The idea that we can’t do it is a little frustrating. We have a staff that wants to work, that doesn’t want to not get paid, and you just want to keep the business going.” Conan was already scheduled to be on hiatus this week, but he's been posting short comedy videos to social media, as well as filming a special quarantine edition of Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend last Friday. “We were making stuff and putting it out and trying to be a distraction, but we just realized – why not just do the show?” asked Ross. “It will be different ,and it may not be pretty, but we’re going to do it.”

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