On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:50 PM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> The URL says it all, and those of us who have followed this daypart know > most of what's in the article. > > > http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/02/how-great-would-it-be-for-leno-to-go-on-em-letterman-em-one-last-time/283636/ > What I got from this that I had not framed just that way before was that Leno is the only network late night show of his era to have only had an 11:35 show. Like most of the article, and others of its kind, this is an oversimplification, but there is something to that. If Leno had done a 12:35 show for 7 years before doing the Tonight Show he may have 1) had a built-up momentum of cool that could have carried into his 11:35 show, cutting his need to pander to the banal center and 2) as he aged and became naturally less edgy, the public would still have the schema of his earlier cool self to partially see him through. As the article also notes, Leno did have a little of this, with his body of work on Dave's show, but that was not enough to carry though to his 11:35 show, which was already from the start really framed by his fill-in gig for Carson much more than his favorite-guest status on Letterman. I have been busier than usual the last few weeks, and have not really been following closely the march to Leno's last show which I guess is tonight. I am going to DVR it and watch it over the weekend I guess. But I am working from home today, and am noticing on the internet that Leno seems to have been doing something of a good-bye media tour, much of it seemingly dedicated to trying to frame his image and defend himself from Conan, Kimell and Dave. -- -- 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.
