Two long-running ESPN talk shows will have a new look starting next week.
Pardon The Interruption and Around The Horn will begin airing in high definition next week, in a move that was originally announced late last year.
According to the original reports last year, the shows will also be moving to ABC News’ Washington, D.C. studios.
While “[m]ost everything is going to look unbelievably similar,” according to executive producer Erik Rydholm, Pardon The Interruption will get a smaller, “glossier” desk and Around The Horn will move into a “spaceship for a studio.”
Overall, the moves are the “first significant visual [changes]” for the two shows since they debuted in the early 2000s.
(Sports Business Journal 9/20/2010, Sports Business Daily 12/11/2009)
