Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1449234
them to be bright and have an LED color-changing element. (Real speakers are black and boring.) I searched online and found huge spun aluminum cooking pot lids that were a perfect size. Most of them were acquired with no problem, but we needed just three more. We had to wait weeks and weeks for those final three lids to come in, which they did just in time. The desk is another whole story. The design of the desk went round and round for eighteen months. Finally, after lots of discussions, they allowed a very expensive custom desk to be built. When the desk arrived, it needed a slight touch up, so it was sent back down in the elevator. While I was downstairs briefing the painter, someone made the decision to put the pilot desk (that I did not design) on set and right at that moment, Nick walked and started getting used to it. Despite all my eorts, the crappy pilot desk remains on air to this day, and the expensive custom desk is in storage, or perhaps a New York dumpster. A designer can lose a lot of battles on these types of TV shows. It's extremely frustrating, and one reason why I love working in theater, where the designer's choices are gospel and deeply respected. ADG Andrew Walmsley, Production Designer Gillian Speers, Ryan Patrick Lammer, Studio Art Directors Michael Moore, Set Designer E F