More NBC late night movement coming Fallon to Tonight Show, Stern to 12:30?

[Mizzougrad96]

Apparently NBC doesn't learn from its mistakes...

Jimmy Fallon is likely to take over The Tonight Show at the end of Leno's contract in 2014.

NBC wants Howard Stern to replace Fallon at 12:30.

I like Fallon better than Leno. That's a given. I just don't see him pulling Leno's ratings. I think he'll do better than Conan did, but I don't understand why they would force Leno out when he's still winning the night...

I know Kimmel is doing really well with the move to 11:30, but he doesn't have much pressure on him. If Fallon takes over and starts losing to Kimmel or Letterman, he'll be pushed out as well...

As far as Stern is concerned, I'd probably watch, but his lack of interest in hisn radio show is why I stopped listening a couple years ago after being a diehard for 25 years... Letterman, Conan and Fallon have done well at 12:30 because college kids loved them. I don't know if Stern (who has to be pushing 60) still has that appeal.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/70225/is-howard-stern-nbcs-choice-to-replace-a-moving-up-fallon

 

[JackReacher]

I've been DVRing Kimmel for the past month or so. Easily my favorite of the bunch.

I'd watch Stern, though. At least for the first couple weeks.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I've been DVRing Kimmel for the past month or so. Easily my favorite of the bunch.

I'd watch Stern, though. At least for the first couple weeks.

Yeah, I like Kimmel best by far... Some of the man on the street stuff is getting a little old...

 

[spikechiquet]

CraigyFerg, hands down.

 

[Buck]

I thought Louis CK was getting a late-night talk show?

 

[Football_Bat]

I'm a Letterman/Ferguson guy, and only when the desk isn't terribly busy. Haven't watched Leno in years.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

I couldn't see Stern being anything but a complete flop if he tries to go from the no-holds-barred world of satellite radio to network TV - even late night.

Maybe he'd have the motivation to do it - he surely doesn't like being as irrelevant as he is, working 3 mornings a week in a pay-radio platform, interviewing Joan Rivers and Jesse Ventura once a month.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Bill Carter just called his literary agent.

 

[DanOregon]

Joel McHale would kill it.

 

[Bradley Guire]

I'll stick with Craig.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Sounds like a story Stern planted.

NBC has viewed 12:30 as a place for someone who's up and coming, not for a 59-year-old guy with 30 years in the business. They couldn't make enough money at 12:30 to justify whatever they'd pay him, and he'd be gunning for the 11:30 slot after about two days of being a team player.

 

[Webster]

I don't know why Stern would want the job enough to plant the story. His demographic must be way older than the 12:30 audience and I bet he makes more from NBC on America's Got Talent than they are willing to pay the host. And it's not like Stern kills you with his work ethic these days.

That being said, his Saturday late night show on Channel 9 maybe 20 years was off the charts hilarious.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Joel McHale would kill it.

Yes he would. I'd say he's almost a no-brainer at this point.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

If I had to choose between Howard Stern and Joel McHale, I would hire McHale so fast it's not even funny.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Stern needs to retire from everything except AGT, which is he apparently good at (and is probably the only thing he cares about, since that's all he talks about on his radio show. Well, that and his lawsuit against Sirius).

 

[Chef2]

I like Stern a lot, but he would be a fool to go to network television. They would have to hold back too much, that it wouldn't work.

McHale should be snapped up in a blur.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

The Stern Show is collapsing around itself. Last week one of the show's "reporters" asked a Stern Show executive (Tim Sabaen) if he was dating Brandi Glanville (Real Housewives of Beverly Hills). He said no, but the whole exchange was edited out of replay broadcasts.

Glanville had been on the show within the last two weeks.

They also go to great lengths not to talk about Robin's health condition. She has not been in the studio in a long time because of some sort of illness (most suspect cancer). It's sort of bull**** that they ask all of these personal questions of guests yet cover-up obvious personal issues of the staff.

 

[PTOWN]

The Stern show is the sole reason Sirius is relevant. When he leaves that company it's going to lose a ton of subscribers. I listen to the show every week, and I don't think they have tried to conceal Robin's illness. If you are new to the show, then yes, you would have no idea. He's still entertaining and is one of the best live interview personalities of all-time. He does go on at-length about his lawsuit and AGT.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

I don't know why Stern would want the job enough to plant the story.

He's an attention *****. He makes a fortune from satellite, but he doesn't get headlines any more. He's preaching to the choir on satellite, there are fewer restrictions on content, he doesn't have an evil boss/establishment to fight. He may not even want the NBC job, but he wants people to talk about him.