![]() What’s been the easiest adjustment during this time? And the hardest? It’s you at your house, so you’d better learn to figure it out. I think that that’s probably what a lot of us are finding out in all kinds of jobs, which is that you used to be able to say, “Well, I’m not really good at that, so I have someone else do that.” Well, there’s no one coming to do it. ![]() There’s been a ton of time trying to learn how to do all kinds of jobs that people go to school for and are much, much better at than me and I am embarrassing all of them by trying to do it myself, but there’s no other choice. I thought I was just a television journalist, it turns out that I am also a cameraman, I am an electrical grip, I’m an IT guy, I didn’t know that, I’m a makeup artist, definitely didn’t know that. I’ve been able to develop skills I didn’t know I had, so that’s good. What’s it been like to switch to a new production system? I think it’s so interesting how in this time, the division between: Do you have younger kids or older kids who are completely up on the news and play video games? Do you live alone, completely by yourself, and are in this quarantine looking at your walls? Are you living with one other person? Are you living with your parents? All of these things that were kind of just side notes with your friends or with people you work with have become the defining thing of their lives. Then in the afternoon, we do some interviews that air on the show, I try to get in a workout, do some schoolwork with my kids, and generally try to make the day feel a little bit more normal for them. We tape late morning, the show airs, and we spend that hour in between crossing every finger and toe that no news breaks in that hour. Because we are now using a completely different system to put out a national television show, we have to tape about an hour before - it’s sort of figuring out what new stories happened overnight, putting the show together. on our show, The Jump. We had to move our schedule back a little bit because before all of this, when we were in the studio, we would go on live at noon every day. The idea is if they’re in the pickup truck and their friend is 10 feet away on the front lawn, that’s our playdate. Obviously they know life isn’t normal - they’re not going to school anymore and all of that - but we will have these outdoor playdates where I will drive over to a friend of their’s house and the friend will sit in a lawn chair on their front lawn and my kids will be in the back tailgate of our pickup truck, parked and contained right in the back of the pickup truck - with third graders you can’t really say to them, “Don’t get within six feet of each other” and have that hold. I’m still hosting a TV show every day, so like a lot of anchors you see I’m in front of a bookcase now instead of a giant television studio, and I also have twin third graders, so we’re trying to make life feel as normal for them as possible. ![]() Let’s start easy: how are you, especially balancing your show and homeschooling? Serena Williams Docuseries in the Works at ESPN At home in Pacific Palisades with the pair and her husband, director Max Nichols, the NBA reporter opens up about changes to her show, belief in a salvageable basketball season and her post-quarantine James Bond fantasies. While she juggles interviewing out-of-work basketball stars with being a camerawoman, electrical grip and makeup artist, Nichols is also managing her twin 9-year-old daughters’ schedules of schoolwork and socially distance playdates. Rachel Nichols, ESPN reporter and host of NBA talk show The Jump, is, like many Americans, working from home these days - except in her case, that now means being in charge of her own filming and production as well. To offer a better sense for how, The Hollywood Reporter is running a regular series that focuses on how Hollywood’s top writers, actors, directors, executives and others are living and working in these challenging times. With production grinding to a halt in the face of the novel coronavirus, the entertainment industry has found itself navigating uncharted territory.
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