Day 9: Dr. Phil is the Last Man Standing

1/14/20, Today was all about TV shows. 5:30 am we rolled out of bed to get to Dr. Phil. The taping started at 9:00 am so we had to get there real early. Getting on the set was just a surreal experience. We've all see the Dr. Phil set on TV and of course the man himself. But seeing it all in person just felt so odd, amazing but definitely different. He had seven different camera rigs for his show including a steady cam rig which was very interesting to watch as he moved around stage. After that we had an hour and half to kill before our next taping so we went to The Walk of Fame which was only cool because of the stars everything else was sorta dirty. Our final show for the night was Last Man Standing. This was a show being taped in front of a large studio audience like Mom was. The problem with these style of shows is they don't want the audience getting bored in between takes and scenes so they hire a comedian to keep the audience happy. Mom's comedian was actually really funny but this one was not at all. I laughed at like one joke of his. I would've liked it much more to just hear what the director and actors were talking about between sets. Tim Allen was on this one and he was being so funny in between takes it would've been way more interesting to just hear what he had to say. Overall not my favorite experience

of the trip just for the lack of info I got about that style of production.