Kevin Carroll Takes the Stage: Hit Late Night Show Finishes First Semester of Filming

“Late Night with Kevin Carroll” is Q30 Television’s newest show.  It may also be the station’s most popular show.

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On Thursday Dec. 5, 2013, Late Night completed filming its final episode of the Fall semester.  The filming took place live in front of an audience in the Piazza of the Carl Hansen Student Center at Quinnipiac University.  It is the only show filmed in front of a live audience.

The gathering of Quinnipiac students gave the taping not only the feel of a live production, but that of a popular campus event.  For each taping, the show is “co-sponsored” by another student organization where that group will ensure that people come to the show to participate in the audience.

The team is working to get the show promoted on Quinnipiac’s “MyQ” website.

Executive Producers Rebecca Castagna and Sommer Rusinski, along with Host Kevin Carroll, proposed the idea for the late night show back in September.  Weeks later, Late Night with Kevin Carroll published its first episode to YouTube.com on  Oct. 13, 2013.

That individual episode now has 1,077 total views so far, thus making it by far the most watched show episode of the Fall semester.  As of Friday Dec. 6, Late Night Episode 1 is followed by both Episode 3 (803 views) and Episode 2 (673 views) respectfully.

Infographic charting the growth, by day, of the total amount of views for each of the three completed episodes.

(Link to Infographics about Kevin Carroll’s Stats – Provided by YouTube Analytics)

Following the production of the inaugural show, the producers of Late Night with Kevin Carroll have begun uploading the individual segments from the show onto YouTube to further promote the show.

Compared to the other five weekly television shows Q30 produces, Late Night with Kevin Carroll is bi-weekly.  By taping every other week, it allows the crew to work on the segments and come up with ideas.

“We come in every Tuesday the week before we shoot the show to come up with ideas and begin writing the monologue … It’s all around fun, its a lot of hard work, its kind of time consuming, but its worth it,” said James Anderson, a production assistant for Late Night.

The bi-weekly filming was an idea given to them by Q30 Television Vice President Sarah Violette.  Violette has been a big advocate and supporter for the show during its early existence.

When asked if she was surprised by how far Late Night with Kevin Carroll has come since its beginnings, Violette said, “Am I surprised? No. I think what I am more surprised about is that when they brought the show to us, they showed us all these great ideas and we said, ‘great, but thats a lot of work’ … I am surprised that it has gone so smoothly and I think the reason its happened is that they have a severely dedicated staff.”

As for the future of the show … there are new things in the works.  Executive Producer Rebecca Castagna was able to shed some light on what we can expect in the Spring.

“Some ideas for the future, we have ideas for cooler segments and parody music videos, we also want a live band for Kevin, kind of his own version of ‘The Roots‘ because that would be fun.”

Late Night with Kevin Carroll will be returning bi-weekly on Thursday nights once the Spring semester begins.

For more information about Late Night with Kevin Carroll, you can like them on Facebook and follow them on twitter @LateNight_KevC.

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