Jay Leno to Stay on NBC
December 8, 2008 by Kath Skerry
Lots ‘o movement at NBC. NBC is set to announce that Jay Leno will be given his own Monday thru Friday talk show. But with Conan taking over the The Tonight Show and Fallon taking over for Conan on Late Night, where will Jay land? How about 10pm? Done and done.
Giving Leno the nightly 10pm slots is a win-win (win). Jay is at the top of his game and still has a huge following. Creating this new show for Jay ensure that he and his fans stick around NBC and don’t defect to another network. But the move also means that NBC has less primetime to program. Rather than being responsible for an 8-11pm schedule each weeknight, the network only needs to worry about 8-10pm. Good thing for NBC because Ben Silverman doesn’t seem to be good at finding new programming (which is disappointing since that is his job).
But the good news is that Jay Leno is sticking around. I’m glad for Jay that this worked itself out.
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