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==History== |
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NBC had announced in 2004 that Leno would leave ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' at the end of May 2009, with [[Conan O'Brien]] set to take over days later. |
NBC had announced in 2004 that Leno would leave ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' at the end of May 2009, with [[Conan O'Brien]] set to take over days later. Leno said at the announcement, "You can do these things until they carry you out on a stretcher, or you can get out when you’re still doing good."<ref name="heresconan"/> He began to regret his decision in 2007,<ref name="heresconan"/> and several networks and studios (namely, [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]] and [[Tribune Broadcasting|Tribune]], among others) lined up for his services.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2008-12-09|url=http://news.aol.com/entertainment/television/tv-news-story/ar/_a/jay-leno-second-guessing-retirement/20071015125309990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001|title=Should He Stay or Should He Go?|publisher=[[AOL]]|date=2007-10-15}}</ref><ref name="nyt10pm">{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/business/media/09leno.html|title=Where Is Leno Going? To Prime Time, on NBC|author=Carter, Bill|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2008-12-09|accessdate=2008-12-09}}</ref> |
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[[Jeff Zucker]], head of [[NBC Universal]], sought to persuade Leno to avoid defecting to a competitor. Leno rejected several NBC offers for daytime or cable slots, a series of recurring specials, and a half-hour show at 8pm five nights a week (essentially the first 30 minutes of ''The Tonight Show'').<ref name="heresconan"/> Zucker, who had previously offered [[Oprah Winfrey]] an hour-long prime-time show, now offered Leno an hour five nights a week at 10pm.<ref name="heresconan">Hirschberg, Lynn. "[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24Conan-t.html Heeeeere's . . . Conan]" ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'', 20 May 2009.</ref> The new show was announced on December 9, 2008.<ref name="10pm-announce">{{cite press release|url=http://www.nbcumv.com/release_detail.nbc/entertainment-20081209000000-jaylenocomestopr.html|title=Jay Leno Comes to Primetime on NBC|publisher=[[NBC]]|date=2008-12-09|accessdate=2008-12-09}}</ref> |
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While the series may not be competitive with the higher-rated scripted shows on ABC and CBS in its time slot, its projected cost of production is far lower and thus is expected to be economically beneficial to NBC.<ref name="nyt10pm"/> |
While the series may not be competitive with the higher-rated scripted shows on ABC and CBS in its time slot, its projected cost of production is far lower and thus is expected to be economically beneficial to NBC.<ref name="nyt10pm"/> |
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Revision as of 20:08, 20 May 2009
| The Jay Leno Show | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Jay Leno Kevin Eubanks |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Production | |
| Production locations | NBC Studios Burbank Burbank, California |
| Running time | 60 min. |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | Fall 2009 |
The Jay Leno Show is an American prime time television talk show created by and starring Jay Leno, to premiere September 2009, following the May 2009 conclusion of Leno's tenure as host of The Tonight Show.
Overview
The show will air weeknights at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on NBC, and will originate from the same NBC studio in Burbank, California where Tonight currently broadcasts. The new series is expected to feature many segments carried over from Tonight, including "Headlines" and "Jaywalking".[1] It has been stated that the format will be somewhat different from Tonight, with Leno claiming, "the desk, that's Conan's thing. We have to be different to that." Several sources have claimed that the show will heavily incorporate 'stunts'. TV Guide has stated Leno will make adjustments to compensate for the fact that Tonight had a six-minute commercial break at Midnight ET and the new show will not have that luxury.
Specifically, the format will add a new comedy segment at the end of the show and will adjust the stage to allow guests to get off the couch and participate in antics.[2]
History
NBC had announced in 2004 that Leno would leave The Tonight Show at the end of May 2009, with Conan O'Brien set to take over days later. Leno said at the announcement, "You can do these things until they carry you out on a stretcher, or you can get out when you’re still doing good."[3] He began to regret his decision in 2007,[3] and several networks and studios (namely, ABC, FOX and Tribune, among others) lined up for his services.[4][5]
Jeff Zucker, head of NBC Universal, sought to persuade Leno to avoid defecting to a competitor. Leno rejected several NBC offers for daytime or cable slots, a series of recurring specials, and a half-hour show at 8pm five nights a week (essentially the first 30 minutes of The Tonight Show).[3] Zucker, who had previously offered Oprah Winfrey an hour-long prime-time show, now offered Leno an hour five nights a week at 10pm.[3] The new show was announced on December 9, 2008.[1]
While the series may not be competitive with the higher-rated scripted shows on ABC and CBS in its time slot, its projected cost of production is far lower and thus is expected to be economically beneficial to NBC.[5]
Though Leno is the first to move the entire five-day-a-week late night talk show to prime time, he is not the first Tonight Show alumnus to move from late night to a prime time talk show: Jack Paar, who hosted Tonight from 1957 to 1962, took on a prime time talk show after leaving Tonight; it was known as The Jack Paar Show and ran until 1965. Paar's show, however, was weekly, and not daily.
At least one station, WHDH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, had announced that it would not carry the program, claiming that Leno's show would be detrimental to the station's 11 p.m. newscast, and instead that it would launch a local newscast in the time slot. NBC said that such plans would amount to a flagrant violation of the network contract, a claim that WHDH disputed. NBC said that it would immediately remove its programming from WHDH if the station followed through with the plan. WHDH backed down on April 13, 2009 and announced that it had decided to air the program instead of the proposed newscast.[6]
References
- ^ a b "Jay Leno Comes to Primetime on NBC" (Press release). NBC. 2008-12-09. Retrieved 2008-12-09.
- ^ Stelter, Brian. NBC Previews the Jay Leno Show. New York Times. 4 May 2009.
- ^ a b c d Hirschberg, Lynn. "Heeeeere's . . . Conan" The New York Times Magazine, 20 May 2009.
- ^ "Should He Stay or Should He Go?". AOL. 2007-10-15. Retrieved 2008-12-09.
- ^ a b Carter, Bill (2008-12-09). "Where Is Leno Going? To Prime Time, on NBC". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-12-09.
- ^ Heslam, Jessica (April 13, 2009). "Channel 7 to broadcast Jay Leno show this fall". Boston Herald. Retrieved April 13, 2009.