Paris By Night - Wikipedia

List of Paris by Night episodes

Crew

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While most of the staff and crew remain the same from show to show, the directors may vary based on the filming location. Richard Valverde served as director for shows in Paris, Michael Watt directed shows in Canada and the United States, and Victor Fable directed in the United States. Notable directors include The Voice's Alan Carter, who directed six shows in the United States, CEO of production company A. Smith & Co. Kent Weed, of six shows in the United States, and NBC director Ron de Moraes, who directed five shows.

PBN Show Directors

Director	PBN Shows Directed
Jean Pierre Barry	10 - 15
Richard Valverde	16 - 37; 53 - 54; 60 - 62; 65 - 66; 69 - 70; 134; 136
Pascal Cresegut	23
Michael Watt	38 - 50; 56; 58 - 59; 72 - 87; 91
Lưu Huỳnh	49
Đinh Anh Dũng	49
Christian Oshea	52
Kent Weed	57; 63 - 64; 67 - 68; 71;
Danielle Phương Thảo	59
Alan Carter	88; 90; 92 - 99; Divas; 100 - 106; 108; 111; 120; 123; 129
Seounghyun Oh	89
Ron de Moraes	107; 109 - 110; 112; 114 - 119; 124; 126 - 128
Ken Nguyễn	PBN VIP Parties; 113; 121 - 122; Divos; Gloria 1 - 3; 125; 131; 135; 138
Manuel Bonilla	130; 132 - 133; 137

Starting with Paris by Night 34: Made in Paris, Shanda Sawyer worked as the production's main choreographer.

Filming

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Originally, Paris by Night was filmed exclusively in Paris, with its intended target audience consisting of the Vietnamese population in France. However, by the late 1980s, the production moved to Orange County, California following demand from the more populous Vietnamese American community for the production to host shows in the United States and the fact that most Vietnamese language performers from the former South Vietnam lived in the country, with filming beginning in the country in the mid-1990s.[4]

Except for several tapings, Paris by Night has been filmed live before an audience. The show has since been filmed in France, the United States, Canada, South Korea, Singapore, and Thailand. It has never been filmed in Vietnam.[3][5]

Video release

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Since the beginning of the show's run, the producers have been releasing videos of the shows on VHS and, more recently, DVD. Since the digital age, however, Paris by Night sales have dropped significantly, and the company has since switched to a video on demand service and subscription services similar to Netflix. Full shows and music clips have been made on the official Thúy Nga YouTube channel, supported with ad revenue. The company has also allowed IP addresses in Vietnam to stream shows for free,[3] countering the country's ban on the show's sales. Production coordinator John Nguyen states “All the copies in Vietnam are bootleg or through illegal downloads."[2]