‘Tonight’ Show Expected to Return to New York, With Fallon

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A plan is in the works to bring NBC’s “Tonight” show back to New York.

While the network has yet to complete a deal, it has made a commitment to Jimmy Fallon, the current host of its “Late Night” program, to have him succeed Jay Leno as the next host of “Tonight,'’ according to several senior television executives involved in the decision. The show would move from Burbank, Calif., back to New York, where it first started in 1954 with Steve Allen as host.

Some details remain to be worked out, including an exact timetable for the switch, though it is expected to take place by the fall of 2014 at the latest, the executives said in interviews this week.

NBC has quietly begun work on a new studio in its headquarters building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza as the home for the new “Tonight” show. The studio is part of a general reconstruction of the building being undertaken by Comcast, which this week completed a full takeover of NBC Universal.

full: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/business/media/tonight-show-expected-to-return-to-new-york-with-fallon.html

[onehandle]

1. Wow. I hope so. Leno, as always, is a dinosaur. nt

[liberal N proud]

2. Is Leno actually going to retire this time?

[RiffRandell]

3. Everyone hated Leno before the Conan crap but that was the icing on the cake.

I love Jimmy--I'm glad for him.

[graham4anything]

5. I am a Leno fan. Conan was never a 1130 person, and proved it every single night

Nobody will ever top Johnny and Ed.

[RiffRandell]

6. Leno's a back-stabbing joke stealer.

Every comedian hates him.

[graham4anything]

8. Every comedian is jealous of Leno. Conan thinks being trendy makes him funny. He isn't.

Conan was a mistake like new Coke was a mistake.

[RiffRandell]

9. Jealous?

No--they hate him because he's an asshole. Jimmy Kimmel was very revealing of what a piece of shit he is in Rolling Stone.

I'm done. Later days.

[graham4anything]

10. As Bing Crosby stated in White Christmas, and is true of all "Everyone has an angle" Kimmel does

Kimmel is a direct competitor. Wow, he is starting a publicity fight with Leno.

As Harry Chapin famously said "Good artists borrow, great artists steal".

Pink Floyd and Keith Richards stole everything they knew from everyone else.
So did Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.
Some give credit, some don't.

The last three entertainers who didn't steal from someone were Bing Crosby, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, and that goes back to about 1910.

But Kimmel and Fallon and Conan do nothing original. So its just sheer jealousy.

As Fallon is an impersonator of all singers(a parrot, mime, aper), to say Fallon don't steal is ridiculous.

Leno is still #1.

BTW, Conan stuck it to George Lopez, making Conan the #1 biggest hypocrite in the history of show business, lest one forget.

[patricia92243]

12. Agree 100 percent. Conon is a horrible interviewer - interrupting the guests with his un-funny

jokes. I like Jimmy Fallon and hope he can make it. I love Leno and hate to see him go.

[graham4anything]

4. If Fallon attempts to make it, he needs to be in NYC. He will fail in Burbank.

NY Edgy needs NYC. And whatever would then be in Jimmy's old slot should also be from NYC.

[olddots]

7. I miss Steve Allen

his politics were really cool for that era too.

Fallon better keep the band just the way it is .

[edbermac]

11. My idea for the Tonight Show: Dump Leno and just broadcast Johnny Carson reruns.

He's a hell of a lot funnier than most of the so called 'comedians' on today.