Members dragonflies Posted April 3, 2013 Members Share Posted April 3, 2013 <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Breaking: NBC confirms Jimmy Fallon will take over The Tonight Show. Jay Leno will leave next spring. More to come.</p>— TV Guide (@TVGuide) <a href=" 3, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ryan Chamberlain Posted April 3, 2013 Members Share Posted April 3, 2013 Time for another massive fail! LMAO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 3, 2013 Members Share Posted April 3, 2013 Not a fan, but I'd take him over Leno, who has always seemed mean-spirited to me under the Mr. Everyman persona. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members quartermainefan Posted April 3, 2013 Members Share Posted April 3, 2013 Jay Leno was never funny once hosting that show. Fallon is a big step up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members reallyhateskateonlost Posted April 3, 2013 Members Share Posted April 3, 2013 They should just replay Johnny Carson episodes. NBC was dicks during the Leno/Conan debacle, if they would have just let it alone. The same thing will probably happen to Fallon, it seems to be a pattern with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 3, 2013 Members Share Posted April 3, 2013 The Leno issue is one that was not going away - there was a reason they moved him in the first place. But Fallon, although not one of my favorites, is a much better replacement than Conan. I like Conan, but Conan is very "smartest guy in the room," and only Johnny Carson could pull that off and still have public support. These days, it's impossible. Fallon will likely be able to get a slightly younger demo without alienating the older viewers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted April 3, 2013 Members Share Posted April 3, 2013 I still half-expect Leno to go by blowing his brains out or committing ritual seppuku on-camera. That's the only way he truly leaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 4, 2013 Members Share Posted April 4, 2013 If anyone didn't get to read it, I posted a Hollywood Reporter article in the other Jimmy/Jay (how Deliverance) thread - about NBC's issues with Leno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Max Posted April 20, 2013 Members Share Posted April 20, 2013 I'm puzzled why NBC chose to move The Tonight Show back to NYC, given it's supposedly more expensive to film there. It's also strange that they forced O'Brien to move to LA, yet are willing to move the show to NYC to accommodate Fallon. (Though I don't know if that's the primary reason why the show is being moved back to New York.) Additionally, I don't know why NBC has so much faith in Fallon while having so little faith in O'Brien, when the latter had so much more experience than the former. (I'm not a huge fan of any late-night host, though I prefer Leno, O'Brien, and Fallon in that order. Of course, I fully recognize that Leno is a ruthless human being.) If NBC attacked O'Brien for not having enough mass appeal, then I fail to see how Fallon will have the broader appeal that Leno has. While I know that part of the reason for choosing Fallon was because of his appeal to young people, that's also a big reason why O'Brien was chosen. Despite the fact that Leno will never come back to The Tonight Show, I can totally see NBC wanting to quickly get rid of Fallon if household ratings materially falter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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