NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 28: Jimmy Fallon hosts ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’ at Rockefeller Center on January 28, 2013 in New York City. Credit: Getty Images
It’s official, Jimmy Fallon is going to take over “The Tonight Show,” at least according to anonymous sources at NBC. The decision would remove longtime late night host Jay Leno from the time slot.
Meanwhile, there is an ongoing debate about the timing of the switch among key players at NBCUniversal, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Executives are reportedly leaving toward launching Fallon’s show in February of 2014, while others don’t want to move too quickly.
“Moving more quickly not only would provide a high-profile launch for Fallon but effectively would keep Tonight Show host Jay Leno from moving to a rival network until his contract expires in September 2014,” THR reports.
The Huffington Post reports that NBC has been “quietly” building Fallon a new studio in 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan for the anticipated move to “The Tonight Show” at 11:35.
Sources say the transition will occur “by the fall of 2014 at the latest.”
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mandmsgirl
Mar. 20, 2013 at 8:00pmNothing to watch on NBC if they take Jay off. Everything else is terrible. It’s no wonder they are in last place.
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jeffile
Mar. 21, 2013 at 11:26amI couldn’t agree more. Perhaps they are trying to get a government bailout.
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kangaroo
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:59pmJust a side note, I don’t like disquis haven’t signed up. I don’t comment on many stories but I read alot of headlines around the web and want to comment so I come here to give my 2 cents but the stories are not posted. I just think Blaze is a tabliod site, you have to weed through heaps of stories mostly a bunch of BS to even get the news and the real stories of the day are not here.
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kangaroo
Mar. 20, 2013 at 8:07pmHere is an example, why the sam hill is this story not posted here. I could go on and on.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/03/20/good-news-obama-admin-approves-saudi-arabia-for-program-that-allows-wahhabis-to-bypass-normal-airport-security/
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Eastinfection
Mar. 20, 2013 at 8:18pmROO…
post that link on the “give us a scoop” thing at the bottom of the page.
They run with stories some of us submit there quite frequently, actually.
PS: The fluff is there for the people who are here, commenting all day long…. the guards and the trolls.
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kangaroo
Mar. 20, 2013 at 8:27pmWell thanks East, will take that advice.
That actual story I just posted the link to was only on Weasil Zippers and Foxx so far even Drudge is not running it.
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Eastinfection
Mar. 20, 2013 at 8:39pmROO…
It’s a good story… The top comment on it says it all..
Un(stinking) believable…(Saudis) get a pass, but a double-amputee combat vet catches hell from a TSA (female sanitary device). This administration really does have their heads so far up their (posterior), it may never become unstuck.
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The-Monk
Mar. 20, 2013 at 10:58pmHi Kangaroo,
I sent that in. Thanks.
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eaglescout1998
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:52pmOf all the late-night hosts, I like Craig Ferguson most.
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drs1969
Mar. 20, 2013 at 8:14pmMe too. He’s the least political. I don’t care for Letterman, Leno, Fallon or Kimmel, in that order, due to their constant attacks against Palin. Over 4 yrs. and they’re still attacking her, to protect their Pet.
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clinker
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:47pmI’ll just read a book or listen to radio.
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RJJinGadsden
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:54pmHaving watched the old Johnny Carson shows in the hay day, at my age I just go to bed. LOL
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TROONORTH
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:47pmLeno, his politics aside, has lead the ratings on late night TV over the last 20 or so years for a reason;
He’s funny. I hope that he turns up on a rival network ( FOX?) and blows all three of the other liberal attack dogs right out of the water. Letterman is too rabidly liberal. Conan . … . Conan who? Fallon is funny to all the high school kids who stay up late watching TV in Dad’s rec’ room.
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drs1969
Mar. 20, 2013 at 8:20pmHis timing sucks! He’s just the prettiest ‘dog’ in the show. He’s obviously kissed a lot of *ss to get to his place. He got his old time slot back, and got Conan kicked out. I remember when he first took over for Carson. Buddy Hackett came on his show one night, and said, ‘Don’t worry, Johnny wasn’t so hot the first couple of years, either’. That was 20 yrs ago. Now, he’s more partisan, and with the same bad timing he had way back then.
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TROONORTH
Mar. 21, 2013 at 10:14amLeno didn’t get Conan ‘kicked out’. Conan’s ratings sucked and he was replaced by Leno by order from ‘above’.
NBC OWNED that time slot until Conan came along and then he tanked. Leno was the only show that NBC had that consistently lead it’s time slot. So when Conan circled the drain they had no choice but to move Leno ( who also tanked at the 10 PM slot) back to the 11:35 PM slot. Conan was a bad attempt to appeal to a younger demographic. NBC thought that if they moved him up to Leno’s time slot the younger audience would flock to him. What they discovered was that all the younger audience that would ever watch Conan was already watching and moving him did not bring in more viewers.
Aside from the fact that Conan sucks of course.
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TROONORTH
Mar. 21, 2013 at 10:17amps
The same thing is going to happen to Fallon. He has reached his peak and changing his time to 11:35 PM will not bring in any new viewers. His demographic includes SNL viewers and not much more. Watch NBC scramble in about two years, when they try to find a replacement for Leno. Hopefully Leno will be on ABC by then, giving them their first successful late night show.
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dannyo
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:46pmquit watching late night liberal pukes years ago…would come back if palin got a time slot, would be a ratings BONANZA!!!
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PK_SEA
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:45pmTeam Coco!!!!
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slr4528
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:44pmI am done with Obama’s little troll Fallon. His over the top worship of Obama is ridiculous. I know Leno liked Obama but at least there was some balance with his political humor. But to be perfectly honest these late night shows are a thing of the past. No one really watches them any more when they have a zillion other channels to watch late at night.
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flatbroke
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:41pmLate night T.V. is dead and has been dead for a very long time, Leno his jokes are lib slanted, and stale as he tells the same ones night after night, Letterman is not funny just, mean, and has not been funny since the 80s, and has the same boring celebs on his show night after night, mostly Sarah Jessica Parker shes on Letterman weekly, and i am surprised she doesnt have her own spot on the show regularly. Falon-. i dont waste my time.
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Stelex
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:24pmIt seems his class didn’t rub off on you.
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Stelex
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:55pmOK, Blaze, if your going to delete a post, and I’m glad you did, it was ignorant………could you delete the responses cause they make no sense without the original post.
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The-Monk
Mar. 20, 2013 at 8:18pmHi Stelex,
They use to do that and people complained. Can’t please all of the people all of the time.
I understand though. It’s looks confusing. : )
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Stelex
Mar. 20, 2013 at 9:04pmThanks Monk
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Stelex
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:21pmThe Tonight show died with Johnny. The last one with true class. All these guys and girls are wanna be’s. No more no less.
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crusaderx9
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:15pmFallon’s “Lying a$$ B1tch” stunt means I will never watch him. Letterman was written off years ago as he openly flaunts his progressive support especially after the Palin stunt on child rape. Leno is tired and old and safe and liberal – nothing for me there either.
Progressive topical theater of late night TV just makes you dumberer… :-)
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Snaker
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:14pmI stopped watching Leno eons ago, when NBC got into “that-guy’s” pocket… (Are ya happy to see me, or, do you have NBC in your pocket.)
As for the other’s, their “humor” is no longer humorous. Politics IS as politics DOES….
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EQUALIZER
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:11pmAnother reason not to watch. RIP Tonight Show
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BER691
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:08pmNow I understand why they are on the bottom of the rating, Jay was the only thing good on NBC, maybe if they got rid of Williams the rating might go up alittle
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jackact
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:01pmGreat.
George Bush jokes for everyone.
:(
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lillymckim
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:14pmJimmys the better asz kisser for Dear Leader Obama/NBC and Fallons drummer sang
“The Lying Asz Bitch” song for Michelle Bachman and danced dressed like a girl with “The Wife”
so of course Obama/NBC loves Fallon and Fallon love, love, LOVES Obama.
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WTFHappenedToTheUSA
Mar. 20, 2013 at 6:57pmLetterman and his left wing agenda stopped me from watching the show years ago.
Leno, Leno is human garbage who stole the slot from Letterman and Conan and refuses to go away, even though Leno is about has funny as watching paint dry.
Lets see what the chin does to screw Fallon out of the time slot.
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Pat Alexander
Mar. 20, 2013 at 6:56pmThe best thing I can say about Jimmy is – he isn’t Conan.
Unfortunately, that’s it.
NBC surely has a death wish.
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gyro
Mar. 20, 2013 at 6:55pmwho cares ?
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Roadbeer
Mar. 20, 2013 at 6:52pmDidn’t NBC already screw this pooch once before when Carson retired?
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RJJinGadsden
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:09pmYep, but they are about to screw it again with something even larger.
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michael48
Mar. 20, 2013 at 6:43pmdon’t watch pravda TV…but think highly of Leno….I wish him well…. and nothing but crap tv can move to Moscow…if it hasn’t already…btw ..sell the Golf/Weather channel to an American company…tired of your oBlamo/love fest there as well…
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artimusprim
Mar. 20, 2013 at 6:40pmWe all know that NBC is brain dead, Just another example, Brain dead host all over the place.
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spirited
Mar. 20, 2013 at 6:46pmObama really like Chuck Todd today. -lol
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birthright
Mar. 20, 2013 at 6:40pmThat will be a reason for me to get to sleep earlier. I enjoyed Jimmie’s show until he was rude to republican candidates while worshipping the Obamas.
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The-Monk
Mar. 20, 2013 at 6:40pmOh dear…. what will the progressives do?
Fallon or Letterman? Letterman or Fallon? What to watch?
It’s going to drive them nuts. LOL
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spirited
Mar. 20, 2013 at 6:45pmTheres always Kimmel
on TCM’s Woody Alan nights
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Chromo200
Mar. 20, 2013 at 6:45pmI watch neither.. I don’t think they funny.
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RJJinGadsden
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:12pmHi MONK, I was sitting in my living room in Tampa when I saw this as it originally ran.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxmXpzcl4MI
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RJJinGadsden
Mar. 20, 2013 at 7:34pmHi MONK, As I understand the story, Leno borrowed that suit. LOL, I have often wondered from whom?
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fastgen1
Mar. 20, 2013 at 6:35pmWell it looks like I will watching netfilcks for evening TV once Jay is gone. Havent watched that freak on the other channel for years, and fallon is so ho hum.
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