Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Fallon has the lowest percentage of guest talk

['David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV]

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 From: PGage <pga...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Fallon has the lowest percentage of guest talk
 


One reason for the "return to talk" is that, while it might not be more 
entertaining than anything else, it is easier to maintain at a relatively 
entertaining level than the alternatives.  A year or two from now, when 
whatever Fallon's schticks are now that seem fresh and new begin to feel old 
and stale, will he be able to keep coming up with new and entertaining things? 
Maybe. But also maybe not. I heard him interviewed a few months before taking 
over from Leno, I think maybe by Gross, or maybe on a podcast, saying that he 
loves staying late after the taping of a show working on a bit for the next 
night, or coming in over the weekend to work on stuff. Perhaps he will still 
want to do that 10 and 15 years in, but most likely, he will not. 
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Me - For all the accounts of how Fallon's Tonight Show is just his Late Night 
with a new set and new theme, he has changed up the games.  I think another 
curve ball may be how fatherhood changes his outlook on doing the work.  His 
daughter is still quite young, but as Harry grew older, Dave has said he was 
more interested in spending time with him and less interested in handling as 
much of the show as he used to.

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From: PGage <pga...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Fallon has the lowest percentage of guest talk
 
Stewart and Colbert each produce 40% of the show that the late night broadcast 
boys do, but I am certain they work at least 50% harder (maybe even 100% 
harder). Sooner or later it becomes clear that it is just easier, chepater, and 
produces a higher hit rate, to spend more time talking to whoever is on the 
celebrity wagon train (to use Tom Hanks' phrase) than to make up new sh*t every 
freakin night.
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Me again - I expect that all the late night programs will go to four nights a 
week within the next few years.  Arguably this is a return to late-Carson form 
(when late night was just NBC), but it is a marked difference to the pattern 
since Leno took over on Tonight.

Meyers will occasionally do a Friday repeat, Kimmel does them always, Letterman 
has taken to doing them in the summer, and Ferguson tried that this past week 
(though they may simply have failed to pre-tape enough shows).

The timetable may be determined by Colbert's Late Show production schedule.  If 
they do four shows a week, whomever takes over the Late Late Show will likely 
follow suit, leaving Fallon as the only one always doing new Friday shows.

An interesting question is how the decrease in talk on Fallon's program affects 
its cost.  Certainly the ratings will justify a healthy budget, but a trend 
toward four nights a week may not be just to reduce the creativity burden of 
producing new content.  Again, I think Colbert's Late Show may influence what 
happens.  Does it stay in the Ed?  Does it have a band?  I don't know, but 
since Colbert doesn't have a band, I won't rule out him not having one at CBS.

David

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