Jay Leno News

Leno Primetime Cancelled

4:15 pm EST January 10th, 2010 | News | 8 Comments

No surprise.

NBC Universal TV Entertainment chairman Jeff Gaspin confirmed Sunday to reporters at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena that the network is going ‘back to basics’ — scripted programming at 10 p.m., talk shows in late-night and a traditional network upfront in May.

And the network clearly thinks the remedy to this is to screw over Conan O’Brien (again). NBC doesn’t get must see anymore.

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Conan O’Brien Gets Screwed By Jay Leno

12:41 pm EST February 19th, 2009 | News | 5 Comments

conan o'brienHe’s not the first in late night tv to have that happen to him (see Letterman, David) but at the end of the day I feel Conan’s Tonight Show will outlive Jay’s talk show in primetime in how much it actually impacts culture.

I watched a couple minutes of Leno the other day and the big comedy bit was Jay finding “wacky” items on Ebay then seeing if they actually sold or not. Really. And it isn’t like Jay doesn’t know what’s funny. When he used to sub for Johnny Carson he was genuinely humorous. But then he got the Tonight Show and got safe, safe even by the standards of network tv. And safe = stale.

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