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This morning, courtesy of the home office in Wahoo, Nebraska:
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Two thoughts:
1. It must feel good for Dave to vent nearly two decades’ worth of pent-up Jay bashing. See also his monologue last night. (“Jimmy Kimmel was so convincing as Leno that today NBC canceled him.”)
2. Jeff …
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David Letterman has been killing it the past few nights when it comes to the Jaypocalypse, in which he has a long-standing personal investment. But the most audacious and outrageously funny late-night take on the situation yet belongs to Jimmy Kimmel, who did his entire show last night as Jay Leno. See it here in its entirety:
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In all the NBC late-night drama, I’ve made a point of not treating Jay Leno as the bad guy. I was not a fan of The Jay Leno Show nor of his Tonight Show, but a lot of other people were, and he did a good job making a show that they loved. He didn’t ask to get bumped off the Tonight Show, nor can I blame him for wanting it back.
That …
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Let me take off my TV-critic hat for a minute and put on my TV-business hat. Everyone’s assumption now—a well-founded one, it seems—is that, forced to choose between Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien, NBC will pick Jay. Leaving aside fairness, funniness or cosmic justice, is that the right business pick?
Short-term, I have to say: …
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Let it not be said that Conan O’Brien lacks company loyalty. Even as O’Brien was busy getting publicly screwed over by his network, he was on the Tonight Show, making fun of his own situation while giving a plug to Howie Mandel and Deal or No Deal:
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The guy who’s having the best time with the Jaypocalypse and NBC’s Conanundrum? David Letterman. For now, anyway. Here’s a preview of his hit tonight (since I’m sure you’ll be watching to see what Conan has to say). The title gives away the punch line, but it’s funny anyway:
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NBC wanted a decision quick, and it got one: Conan O’Brien says he will quit [Update: or to be precise, all but says it] the Tonight Show if NBC moves it to 12:05 to shoehorn in Jay Leno at 11:35. This is not Conan “quitting” the Tonight Show exactly, but it is demanding NBC choose him or Leno.
[Update: NBC says that, yes, there will be …
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This week, the Television Critics Association is holding the winter version of its press tour in Pasadena, where TV networks are giving presentations on their midseason lineups. I’m not there, but here are some highlights from people who are:
* Fox has confirmed a second season of Glee for next year, and they’re holding a casting search …
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Presenting its midseason programming to TV reporters and critics in Pasadena this weekend, NBC made official its not-exactly a secret: after Feb. 11, The Jay Leno Show will be no more, at least at 10 p.m. NBC executives said that while Leno’s show was making money for the network (by lowering its costs even though it lowered the …
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One last Jaypocalypse post (I think) for the day: James Hibberd is quoting “a well-placed Fox source” as saying that Fox would be interested in (a presumably-ticked-off-at-NBC) Conan O’Brien, should he become available. Reportedly Conan has not yet agreed—pointedly—to a deal to push his Tonight show back to midnight to make room for …
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Looks like we may as well make a Jay Day of it. Over at my Twitter feed, people have been tossing out suggestions for what they’d like to see NBC toss in as stopgap programming if they have five hours of The Jay Leno Show to replace in a month and a half. (Required caveat: If it happens!) In particular, it has awakened the pangs of …
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If the reports are true—and it increasingly looks like it—that NBC is planning to send back Jay Leno to 11:30, it raises a lot of questions: Will Conan stay? What does NBC program in primetime? What about Carson Daly? For this post, I’ll stick to one: Why now?
What’s most surprising about the move—again if reports hold true—is …
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[Update: TMZ is reporting that Jay will move back to 11:30. See my separate post above.]
A TV-industry-news website, FTVLive.com (subscription required), is reporting that there are high-level talks going on at NBC over whether to drop The Jay Leno Show. The report is headlined “NBC to Pull the Plug on Leno,” and has been picked up thus …
