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Post by willywonka666 on Mar 2, 2013 1:54:15 GMT -5
The 2013-14 television season will be the last for Jay Leno as host of "The Tonight Show" in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Reporter quoted two sources as saying.
Public confirmation regarding Leno's departure is expected to be made in May when "Late Night" host Jimmy Fallon is announced as his successor on the 11:35 p.m. program.
"We do not speculate on rumor," Leno's representative told THR Friday.
The move is apparently being considered because NBC feels Fallon can better compete with the younger-skewing Jimmy Kimmel, whose "Live!" program ABC moved into the 11:35 p.m. time slot in January, the entertainment industry trade newspaper said.
NBC previously booted Leno, 62, as host of "Tonight" at the end of the 2008-09 season and gave the position to "Late Night" host Conan O'Brien to keep O'Brien from moving to another network. NBC then offered Leno a nightly, hourlong, 10 p.m. series, which kicked off in September 2009.
But when the prime time "Jay Leno Show" failed to be a strong lead-in for local news broadcasts, NBC announced it would push Leno's show back to 11:35 p.m., shorten it to 30 minutes and air "Tonight" at 12:05 a.m. However, O'Brien said he would not remain on "Tonight" if it was bumped to 12:05 a.m. and left the network, paving the way for Leno's return as "Tonight" host in the traditional 11:35 p.m. time slot in March 2010.
O'Brien now heads up his own chat show "Conan" on TBS.
This is the same kind of crap they pulled just a couple of years ago. Like him or not, I think Jay is getting the shaft this time.
I used to think that Fallon didn't deserve to host the same show that Johnny Carson once had, but now I realize, this isn't the show that Johnny had. Or at least this isn't the same world Johnny lived in.
And this could turn out to be bullshit.
Let the speculation begin!
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Post by Cela on Mar 2, 2013 1:58:10 GMT -5
Why do people give Fallon money? Yes, he's had a few good skits, but not enough to warrant this much of a push.
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Post by chazraps on Mar 2, 2013 1:59:45 GMT -5
Why do people give Fallon money? Yes, he's had a few good skits, but not enough to warrant this much of a push. He comes off as incredibly likable. I highly, highly doubt Leno's going anywhere. Even if NBC pays him out to leave early, he'll surely pop up on another network with another show. |
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Post by celticjobber on Mar 2, 2013 2:00:02 GMT -5
Leno will just end up coming back again. He'll probably host Tonight until he's an invalid or dies of old age. Why do people give Fallon money? Yes, he's had a few good skits, but not enough to warrant this much of a push. He comes off as incredibly likable. I think he comes off as a phony douchebag. Like the kind of guy in high school who would've been nice to your face, then turned right around to the "cool kids" he hung out with and make a joke about how lame you are. |
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Post by willywonka666 on Mar 2, 2013 2:06:19 GMT -5
Why do people give Fallon money? Yes, he's had a few good skits, but not enough to warrant this much of a push. He comes off as incredibly likable. I highly, highly doubt Leno's going anywhere. Even if NBC pays him out to leave early, he'll surely pop up on another network with another show. Which is exactly what happened last time. NBC freaked at the prospect of him going to another network and gave him another show. Why would they do this again? |
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Post by stinger on Mar 2, 2013 2:10:51 GMT -5
Jay Leno sucks. That is all.
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Post by chazraps on Mar 2, 2013 2:12:55 GMT -5
He comes off as incredibly likable. I highly, highly doubt Leno's going anywhere. Even if NBC pays him out to leave early, he'll surely pop up on another network with another show. Which is exactly what happened last time. NBC freaked at the prospect of him going to another network and gave him another show. Why would they do this again? #1 He has a "Play-AND-Play" contract #2 He gets 80 mil if they break it. Last time Conan only got 40 mil. They based their decision on that. Late Night is NBC's only constant. They feel they need Leno and are scared to let him go because it's an absolute given that he will be competition. The man will never allow himself to be off TV. |
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Post by Hit Girl on Mar 2, 2013 2:46:13 GMT -5
If I was running NBC, I'd release a statement saying "Leno will be hosting the Tonight Show until he dies"
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Post by Brickstone Kid on Mar 2, 2013 3:09:05 GMT -5
They shoulda never got rid of Conan. What was the point, just to get 4 more years of Leno? Idiots.
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Post by Sc on Mar 2, 2013 3:32:59 GMT -5
They shoulda never got rid of Conan. What was the point, just to get 4 more years of Leno? Idiots. I think the point was always to get rid of Conan. I don't think NBC wanted Conan to host the Tonight Show but were stuck with him thanks to a deal they signed in 2004. The new people in charge probably don't have a problem with Fallon taking over. |
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Post by Display Name on Mar 2, 2013 4:49:45 GMT -5
Bring back Conan!...so we can get THIS again!...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2013 7:38:33 GMT -5
Leno replaced again? This didn't end well for the replacement the 1st time......
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2013 8:02:25 GMT -5
Yeah, I don't see this going well at all
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Post by mike2789 on Mar 2, 2013 8:55:57 GMT -5
Huge Conan fan here. The thing with Conan is he is very unique and is not mainstream (as in all viewers of all age appreciate him). I understand why NBC went with bringing back Leno even though I disagree with it. Conan is fine doing his thing over at TBS and will do that for as long as he wants because he is doing TBS a big favor.
Jimmy Fallon is a great choice. He is a likeable guy that can reach mainstream audiences. He might not be at the same level as Leno, Conan, Letterman, or Kimmel but he holds his own.
Personally it goes Kimmel, Conan, Letterman as my top three and I record all three so I can see it after work. It is on late and I like sleeping.
Once again, that is just my opinion
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Mar 2, 2013 9:09:14 GMT -5
They shoulda never got rid of Conan. What was the point, just to get 4 more years of Leno? Idiots. I think the point was always to get rid of Conan. I don't think NBC wanted Conan to host the Tonight Show but were stuck with him thanks to a deal they signed in 2004. The new people in charge probably don't have a problem with Fallon taking over. True, to an extent, but the whole 2004 deal was a result of Jeff Zucker not wanting Conan to go across the road to say ABC or Fox. Conan, at the time, was at his hottest, and had been showing that he'd, for lack of a better term, outgrown 'Late Night'. The goal, in the end, that no matter their professional feelings on both men, the aim was to keep them in the same house, and happy. If there's any credibility in the claims, this'll be the third time that Leno's been served up on the 'Tonight' show chopping block, and he keeps rallying back each time. If NBC has any notion of turfing him, it should just gander at the show's history over the last 21 years. They offered to dump Leno at the end of his initial contract, and offer Letterman the 'Tonight' show, to stop the latter from darting to CBS. Letterman axes the deal, because the show he wanted to inherit was dead, and the deal offered was flimsy, at best. They dump Leno in 2009, and then scamper back, because of NBC's unwillingness to let Conan settle into a proper groove on 'Tonight', and wanting to save a few dollars for the bottom line. Admittedly, Conan's naive contract, that didn't guarantee a timeslot, and Leno's 'keep going, or I'm gone' deal, played a more than significant part in that, but it was disastrous regardless. My point, if there's one to all this, is that I would never rule Leno out, 'til he flat-out offers to retire. On that note, I'd imagine Fallon would want to be cognizant of the 'Tonight' show's history before taking the leap. As something of a footnote, Bill Carter reported in 'The War for Late Night' that, as a worst case, if Leno and O'Brien weren't around anymore, NBC were having rumbles of perhaps just ditching the 'Tonight' show and pulling Fallon up an hour. If it lends any steam to the argument, CNBC Europe have ditched their showings of the 'Tonight' show entirely, and left Fallon's show in its place. The Comedy Channel in Austrailia pulled something similar. After Leno's reinstatement to the 'Tonight' show, ratings declined, and both 'Tonight' and 'Late Night' got dropped. 'Late Night', however, was later brought back without 'Tonight'. |
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Post by mjolnir on Mar 2, 2013 9:38:17 GMT -5
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Post by bob on Mar 2, 2013 10:00:20 GMT -5
Jay Leno sucks. That is all. |
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Mar 2, 2013 11:46:12 GMT -5
He comes off as incredibly likable. I highly, highly doubt Leno's going anywhere. Even if NBC pays him out to leave early, he'll surely pop up on another network with another show. Which is exactly what happened last time. NBC freaked at the prospect of him going to another network and gave him another show. Why would they do this again? Because Kimmel is now firmly entrenched at ABC, and I don't think they care too much about Fox |
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Post by Welfare Willis on Mar 2, 2013 12:17:01 GMT -5
Which is exactly what happened last time. NBC freaked at the prospect of him going to another network and gave him another show. Why would they do this again? Because Kimmel is now firmly entrenched at ABC, and I don't think they care too much about Fox Last time I heard about Fox Late Night was when Conan was leaving and no one knew where he'd land. This is an article from that period: www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/90618679.html#!page=1&viewAll=0&sort=oldestfirst&pageSize=10 |
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Post by willywonka666 on Mar 2, 2013 12:19:25 GMT -5
There was a report, I think after the whole Conan debacle, where they showed that late night television was suffering due to dvrs. Lorne Michaels has done A LOT for Fallon and with SNL being one of NBC's bright spots, I can see this probably happening. The entertainment world is really f***ed up now, barely resembling what I once knew.
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