Has there been enough time (2 months) to figure out if the young audience is breaking toward Kimmel? That seems doubtful.
>From what I remember, Kimmel's average audience age at 12:05 was only a few >years younger than Dave's or Jay's, and about the same as Fallon's and >Ferguson's. As for Fallon's youth appeal, I agree with Kevin that NBC is mistaken. From what I've watched, Fallon's college-age material is pretty much the games he plays with guests and/or the audience. For interviews and musical guests, it's usually contemporary to him or older. For crying out loud, he had on Christopher Cross! It also seems that part of the youth movement is dial position. Conan's average age was low on the Tonight Show and dived into the 30s when moving to TBS. I find it typical that this speculation gets attention, when the pending arrival of Arsenio and the post-Conan show with Pete Holmes, not so much. If it's not on network, who cares. David >________________________________ > From: Joe Hass <[email protected]> > >Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC wants to push Leno out for Fallon summer 2014 >(though they deny it) > > >Quick: someone check Helen Kushnick's grave! > >On Mar 2, 2013, at 3:12 AM, Steve Rhodes <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Kim Masters: >>Is NBC preparing to announce Jay Leno's departure from The Tonight Show? >>The network says categorically no, but two high-level industry sources tell >>The Hollywood Reporter that NBC is moving toward a May announcement that the >>2013-14 television season will be the last for Leno as host of the >>long-running late-night show. Sources expect the network to move Jimmy Fallon >>from his Late Nightspot into the coveted 11:35 time slot with a soft launch >>during the summer of 2014 before a formal fall kickoff. >>A Leno rep says, "We do not speculate on rumor." Whether the network finally >>executes the Tonight transition plan remains to be seen. Anyone with even a >>passing sense of Leno’s personality knows that the hardworking comic would be >>reluctant to leave his perch, especially before his rival at CBS, David >>Letterman, announces his retirement. Leno and Letterman are both signed >>through 2014. >>Sources believe the network will bring in Fallon partly out of concern about >>the competition on ABC, which moved younger-skewing Jimmy Kimmel to the 11:35 >>time slot in January. “The more time Jimmy Kimmel is in that slot, the more >>the young audience goes that way, the harder it is for Jimmy [Fallon] to keep >>that audience,” says a source familiar with the network’s thinking. >> >> >> >> >> > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
