It's Official: Leno out, Fallon in

[Uncle.Ruckus]

http://www.kshb.com/dpp/entertainment/tonight-show-host-jay-leno-on-way-out-jimmy-fallon-to-take-over-late-night-reigns

 

[Chef2]

Fallon sucks. So does Leno.

 

[imjustagirl]

I love when people take over the reigns.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

NBC's mistake is doing this now. Leno is still No. 1 and Fallon isn't going anywhere, and I'm guessing was not lobbying for this.

By doing this now, they're risking Leno going to Fox or getting a syndication deal and if Fallon loses NBC's grip on No. 1, he will be blamed for it.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Joey Lawrence and Patrick Duffy should be Jay's final guests.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

If Leno is truly content to retire to his garage and tour as a stand-up then NBC has dodged a bullet.

If he goes to Fox or gets a syndication deal, this could be almost as ugly as the Conan debacle.

Joel McHale should be a no-brainer for the 12:30 slot.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Mizzou, the problem for Fox is that their prime time programming ends at 10, not 11. This puts any late night show on the network out of synch. Show it at 10:30, you're up against prime time shows. Wait until 11:30 and you have no lead-in at all, and your audience is already cutting z's.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Mizzou, the problem for Fox is that their prime time programming ends at 10, not 11. This puts any late night show on the network out of synch. Show it at 10:30, you're up against prime time shows. Wait until 11:30 and you have no lead-in at all, and your audience is already cutting z's.

I read something that a Fox deal would have him starting at 11. Whether that would be after 30 minutes of news, and a Seinfeld rerun or 60 minutes of news, I don't know... If he's starting at 11, that could be dangerous for the other late night shows... That said, there have been similar issues that have prevented Fox from having a late night guy all this time... There are a lot of affiliates who would rather show reruns of Seinfeld or something else than show a late night show...

 

[Armchair_QB]

I love when people take over the reigns.

Even when it's reining outside?

 

[Michael_ Gee]

The two major advantages for a station of being a Fox affiliate are getting NFL games and all the extra time you have to present local news (cash cow) and syndicated programs. Fox wouldn't want to mess with that, because with the decline of American Idol their network ratings are starting to deteriorate.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

The two major advantages for a station of being a Fox affiliate are getting NFL games and all the extra time you have to present local news (cash cow) and syndicated programs. Fox wouldn't want to mess with that, because with the decline of American Idol their network ratings are starting to deteriorate.

So, it could be win-win if Fox's 10 o'clock news would go for an hour and then to Leno?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Lorne Michaels will be the producer too? I hope it doesn't hurt SNL's quality.

 

[bigpern23]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the main reason there is no 11 p.m. Fox programming because the affiliates rake in cash for advertising sold during syndicated programming? So Fox is going to have to convince its affiliates to give up all those programming dollars for, what, five years of Leno?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Lorne Michaels will be the producer too? I hope it doesn't hurt SNL's quality.

Michaels has been the late night producer the whole time Fallon has been doing it, and the whole time Conan was doing it and also produced 30 Rock... This shouldn't be any big change for him.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the main reason there is no 11 p.m. Fox programming because the affiliates rake in cash for advertising sold during syndicated programming? So Fox is going to have to convince its affiliates to give up all those programming dollars for, what, five years of Leno?

Right.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Lorne Michaels will be the producer too? I hope it doesn't hurt SNL's quality.

Michaels has been the late night producer the whole time Fallon has been doing it, and the whole time Conan was doing it and also produced 30 Rock... This shouldn't be any big change for him.

I know. I was making a joke. Poorly, it seems.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Lorne Michaels will be the producer too? I hope it doesn't hurt SNL's quality.

Michaels has been the late night producer the whole time Fallon has been doing it, and the whole time Conan was doing it and also produced 30 Rock... This shouldn't be any big change for him.

I know. I was making a joke. Poorly, it seems.

I'll share the blame for missing the sarcasm font.

 

[HanSenSE]

How many times has Fox tried, and failed, at late-night programming? Joan Rivers comes to mind, but, seems like there were others that were just as massive failures.

 

[mpcincal]

How many times has Fox tried, and failed, at late-night programming? Joan Rivers comes to mind, but, seems like there were others that were just as massive failures.

Chevy Chase was a disaster. I don't remember if Magic Johnson's and Dennis Miller's shows were Fox or syndicated.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Fox's attempts have been disastrous, but I don't think they've tried since Chevy Chase. A lot has changed since then.