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VH1's Popular long time running show is changing it's format! On October 24th it will switch to a single host (Paul Tompkins) opposed to the multiple talking heads and a bit lighter, or less mean, tone.
The show will not abandon the sarcasm entirely but will be “snarky with a heart, snarky with a conscience,” Mr. Tompkins said, though he may have been snarking slightly when he said it.
Mr. Tompkins, 40, has contributed to “Best Week Ever” since it started, and he said getting the call to host was a rare instance of show-business ambition matching up with opportunity. “When I would watch the show,” he said, “I would always wish I was on it more.” Three weeks ago he and his girlfriend, Janie Haddad, an actress, moved to New York from Los Angeles, where he had lived for 14 years.
With the move to a single host, the look of “Best Week Ever” will change. While the talking heads were always seated in front of a colored screen, Mr. Tompkins will stand behind a piece of furniture that he termed a podo-desk (a podium-desk). “I’m already experimenting with elbow leans, with left foot versus right foot, with shifting my weight, distributing my weight,” he said. “So there’s going to be no surprises when it finally comes down to it.” His only other preparation: requesting a teleprompter.
Staff members of “Best Week Ever” are also figuring out how to work to Mr. Tompkins’s strengths. “Already we’re getting a lot better at writing with Paul’s voice in mind,” Sean Johnson, the executive producer, said. In a dry run last week he, a half-dozen other producers and Mr. Tompkins gathered in an orange conference room in VH1’s new brightly colored offices near TriBeCa to go over scripts.
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Source: NY Times
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