The Tonight Show

 CA If you've been living under a rock, you might not realize that Jay Leno will be hosting his show every night during the 10 PM hour while Conan O'Brien hosts The Tonight Show at 11:30. I don't like this, not at all. So I have to get a contingency plan ...

 CA Apparently they asked NBC if they could show Leno's show at 11PM instead but NBC said no. I would have said no too. I mean, The Tonight Show starts at 11:35, so how could they show Leno's hour-long show without it eating into that? ...

 CA Richter lasted about 7 years, while mcmahon was with Carson for 30. Of course, Richter is going to get another chance with Conan starting in June, so his time is going to increase. And on The Tonight Show! Funny how these things work out sometimes. ...

 CA Based on Bill Carter's book and directed by Betty Thomas for HBO, The Late Shift lifted the curtain to show us what really happened when NBC chose Jay Leno to replace Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show instead of David Letterman, thus leading to ...

 CA There's been a lot of talk about Conan taking over for Jay on The Tonight Show and Jimmy Fallon taking over the 12:35 slot and ABC possibly canceling Nightline and moving Jimmy Kimmel to 11:35 and Jay moving to 10pm. But there's one person who has sort ...

 CA - drummer Max Weinberg of Late Night with Conan O'Brien's Max Weinberg 7 won't be going to LA when O'Brien makes the jump to The Tonight Show this summer. ...

 CA - Jay started hosting The Tonight Show full-time in 1992. The first BlackBerry was introduced in 1999. Video of the chat is after the jump. ...

By Bob Sassone NBC has said several times that even though Conan O'Brien is going to replace Leno as host of The Tonight Show next year, they were very interested in having him stay with the network to do...well, something else. Host another show, host specials, fix the cars of the executives, whatever. But no...

 CA - This isn't like The Late Shift, the HBO movie about how David Letterman left NBC and Jay Leno became the host of The Tonight Show. ...

By Adam Finley I'm old enough to have watched Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, but not quite old enough to have the appreciation for him some of my older constituents have. Nevertheless, Carson was usually the last thing I saw before drifting off to ...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: NBC, CBS, Late Night, Talent, Industry, The Late Show With David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Anyway, Leno has increased his ratings lead over Letterman, and the news is even more incredible because CBS is a primetime ratings powerhouse and NBC, well, isn't. So I...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: NBC, Late Night, Industry, The Tonight Show with Jay LenoSo what's this all about, Motley Crue filing a lawsuit against NBC? On the 2004 New Year's Eve Jay Leno show, Crue lead singer Vince Neil let the F-word fly, and NBC then banned the group from future appearances on...