On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Steve Timko<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Joe Coughlin<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I ask you, More teeny tiny table tops....what does this mean for The Jay >> Leno Show long-term? >> > Leno's back at 11:35 p.m. by Easter?
I don't know anything about this, but it does focus a question I have been wondering about. It is possible "The Jay Leno Show" becomes an institution and continues for decades; it may even become a tradition to cycle the current Tonight Show host down to the 10:00 slot whenever they are ready to step down. This is possible - but I doubt it - it would certainly violate every thing that has ever happened in network prime time programming. More likely, ,at some point (this year, in two years, in five years) the Leno show will get canceled - or Leno himself will decide to stop doing it, at least every night. Whenever that happens, whether this season before Easter or in 5 years from now, how does NBC get ready to replace it? What is their "exit strategy"? I have been assuming that a big part of the savings for the network in this move is not having to commission a lot of one hour drama pilots, but if that is really true, then NBC would have nothing on the back burner to put on whenever Leno does leave. They would be stuck with Law and Order repeats and more editions of Dateline, at least for a year or so. Are they still ordering up pilots of 60 minute shows (in which case, they are saving less money than I thought with Leno) or would they cannibalize their various cable outlets, so that, in the event, this April we might see "Caprica" "Burn Notie" and "In Plain Sight" on the 10:00 pm NBC line-up? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
