On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > ummm...isn't that the *exact* same deal Leno got a little over four years > ago? >
No. Variety's (well, Brian Lowry's) suggestion here is that Leno get the Bob Hope treatment (2 to 4 primetime specials a year), not the Jay Leno treatment ( 5 prime-time hours per week). But I dispute the premise of the entire piece (and it is really hard for me to take seriously any article which contains a sentence like this, regarding NBC's previous decision to keep Leno lurking in primetime, that it will "forever leave behind doubts regarding whether O’Brien ever truly received a clean shot at making “The Tonight Show” his own." There are no doubts regarding that). This time around, Leno has not agreed to step aside, he has been replaced. He can take the Bob Hope (or I guess you could call it the Tom Brokow role) at NBC, or he can lump it. If he wants to do a comedy show at CNN, or HBO, or Fox, or Lifetime, or wherever, fine, let him. I think he could do an all nude stand up routine every night at 11:35 on Cinemax and not cause much of a distraction for Fallon. People watch the Tonight Show, not Leno. -- -- 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.
