Jay Leno To Stay With NBC - New Show Will Be In Prime Time

[Rick-o]

Under the new deal, Leno, whose "Tonight" show hosting job will go to Conan O'Brien next June, would have a new show airing 10 p.m. Eastern every weeknight, according to The New York Times.

NBC must have been worried Jay would compete against them at a different network. I wonder what kind of deal they gave him?

http://apnews.myway.com//article/2008120...U56O2.html

Edit: Maybe a link to go with it? :drink:

[AllGold]

I might have watched his late night show occasionally if his "theme song" didn't make me want to throw up.

[Acer]

AllGold wrote:
I might have watched his late night show occasionally if his "theme song" didn't make me want to throw up.

da-d-da-dat...da dat!

[lafinfil]

So they're doing Jay 5 nights a week at 10 p.m. ?

Blah ! It's bad enough that the late nights recycle the same guests over and over
and now they add another venue and eat up a valuable time slot ? Brilliant.

[microchip]

Well. Arguing with everyone here apparantally.

I'm stoked. I knew something like this would happen. Heck, my family was ready for HBO to pick him up or something.

We're all huge huge Leno fans.

[guitarist]

The networks are all bleeding money. This Leno maneuver is likely aimed at survival. Letting Leno go might be too risky, finding a way to keep him makes sense if they're trying to keep some semblance of institutional memory and continuity, in a medium that's competing for smaller and smaller viewership and decreasing advertising dollars. Leno hasn't been funny in over a decade, but he is familiar and comforting.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Leno sucks. NBC should have gone with Letterman, as Carson intended.

[Black Landlord]

guitarist wrote:
The networks are all bleeding money. This Leno maneuver is likely aimed at survival. Letting Leno go might be too risky, finding a way to keep him makes sense if they're trying to keep some semblance of institutional memory and continuity, in a medium that's competing for smaller and smaller viewership and decreasing advertising dollars. Leno hasn't been funny in over a decade, but he is familiar and comforting.

Hi guitarist!

[bazookaman]

plus its way cheaper to have a "variety" show which costs next to nothing (relatively) w/a surefire host in place of a drama that costs lots o bucks that may or may not succeed.

[Yoyodyne ArtWorks]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
Leno sucks. NBC should have gone with Letterman, as Carson intended.

I used to love Letterman in the late Eighties/early Nineties but he is just an embarrassment now. Leno is certainly well past his prime, but Letterman's decline has been even more precipitous.