well you know how you boys wanted to
play with NBA players kind of got you
into a charity tournament with your
favorite it's Ben Simmons Happy Together
one of the most popular news shows on
news six and that's a clip from next
week's episode with Ben Simmons who
attended Montford Academy might remember
that the sitcom stars Damon Wayans Jr
and it's about a married couple who
suddenly gets a roommate in the form of
a famous pop star and one of the brains
behind that show is here on set with us
today CBS executive producer and
multitasker extraordinaire Ben Winston
thanks for coming in today
thank you for having me I'm happy to be
here have time to be here with us
well I oh I'm sorry we want to show this
clip - okay sorry clip that's more
exciting well let's just check it out
happy together isn't the only credit to
Winston's name he also helped create a
popular late night talk show segment and
he has a new show in the works and here
he is Ben Winston thank you so much for
joining us and we were talking show your
just a few things going on I know but
when I when I heard last night that
Candice was off I thought I've got to
get on a plane and join you I thought I
could fill in for her and I'm just so
happy to be weather coming up and it's
mostly sunny you've nailed it so yes
adding here this is job to your job but
happy together we're so excited to have
that on news six yeah and where did you
come up with the premise this is based a
little bit on some things that have
happened in your own life it is yeah I
mean a few years ago I was I was working
with one direction I used to make a lot
of their music videos and I produced
their movie and and at the time Harry
Styles had just moved out of an
apartment he was sharing with one of the
boys and before he moved into his house
while it was being done up he sort of
said could I live in your house for a
little bit and and I at first sort of
had to ask my wife and she said as long
as it's only a couple of weeks and no
more and in the end it ended up being
for quite some time and it was a it was
a great experience for all of us really
it was lovely no one ever knew he was
there so fast forward six or seven years
I mean it was a long
time ago and we suddenly had this
concept me and a couple of producers
Jonathan Barry Michael Rotenberg Austin
Allen Tim McCall if we had this idea
that actually it would be a great
premise for a sitcom now I
it's the sitcom of course is not really
based on real life in any way nothing
Cooper does is like what Harry does and
I'll be honest Damon Wayans Jr is a hell
of a lot cooler than I ever could be
but that it it was a nice premise for
the idea that I'm too sort of mid
30-something couple married for a while
happily married feel like they're young
and exciting and cool and then actually
when somebody really young exciting yeah
turns up how you see life through their
eyes and what it says about you so it's
far more a show about the meaning of
marriage and a happy marriage and
getting that little bit older with
pretending while you're not than it ever
is sort of about a pop star living in an
attic that was just all the more the
premise and the hook isn't that always
the case you feel like you're 22 until
you go out and have drinks with someone
who's 20 yeah and then you need to be
hospitalized yes I feel like that every
day yeah especially in the job that we
do we have such brilliant young people
around us and I and I used to think to
myself oh I'm a really young producer
and director and then you'll just
realize at one point you're just a
producer and a director you're also over
another fan favorite you work with James
Corden and - yes the Late Show with
James Clay like really late like we I
wish we were you know the unfortunate
really late it's late late but carpool
karaoke is just you know it's become a
cult classic and how did that come about
well it was it was while we were we were
first James and I moved here January the
1st 2015 we had three months to put a
show together with Rob Crabbe the other
EP of the show and we were just sit in a
room with our writers and go look what
can we do and at that stage James wasn't
well-known at all in America I had never
made a show in America so we didn't have
much clout in getting any talent to come
to our studio so we sort of suddenly
thought well hold on a sec why don't we
we'd seen the carpool lane and and that
was something that had registered with
us and James and I had made a show back
in the UK where once he sang with George
Michael in a car and it really resonated
with our audience people loved it and so
we thought well hornacek you know if
people won't come to us then why don't
go to them because it was much easier to
drive the car to them and get them in
and it was immediately a clever idea
because we thought about it and we
thought well when pop stars are on shows
they rarely do their classics right they
do their new stuff and let's be honest
none of us want to hear we want to hear
the classics so it was a very clever way
of getting six or seven of their hit
songs in and also creating an
environment with a really intimate area
so you could do a brilliant interview
with them and James is just a phenomenal
talent who manages to get the best out
of every person he's with so it really
took off we we didn't expect it to be
the success it's been it's now its own
spin-off show on Apple and everyone
who's got an iPhone can get a carpooled
series now on their phone which went
which we started last week with second
series so we're over the moon with
success of it and just delighted that
people still enjoy it my 9 year old
daughter is obsessed with it that's
great that it's something that kids can
get into - yeah and you have something
exciting coming up after the Super Bowl
yes we do yeah we have a new show on CBS
and this network - and it is called the
world's best and it's a brand new world
talent show which we started filming a
few weeks ago and yeah we go live
straight after the Superbowl so working
on that at the moment it's some great
guests some great hosts for that show -
to look forward
yeah well James is gonna host it and
then we have RuPaul Faith Hill and Drew
Barrymore RuPaul so much I can't even
yeah he's an extreme talent he's so
phenomenal and then we have 50 judges
from around the world that you can see
in that photograph that are behind are
three American judges so it is a it is a
judging panel like no other on
television and and our and our acts on
the show need to not just impress the
American judges but also the wall of the
world so it's a it's an exciting show I
couldn't be more delighted to be doing
it with Mark Burnett and Mike Dunnellon
we're so excited about it yeah we
appreciate you stopping by we know
you're super busy I know you have to get
back out to some things you're working
on here in town yeah we're doing drop
the mic for TBS tonight live from
Orlando so so that's exciting for us yes
well thank you so much for coming to be
fabulous we've loved meeting you thanks
for having me