On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 9:45 PM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote:
> That said, I'd expect NBC to be both traditional and lazy. Whomever would > be holding the Late Night spot when Conan retired from Tonight would > probably get the gig. Maybe they'd make noises about poaching Trevor Noah > or Samantha Bee or John Oliver, but I'd expect it to end up being somebody > Lorne likes and/or thinks he could or did groom for the gig. So we might > still be cursing Jimmy East Coast or wondering how Seth Meyers might handle > things at 11:35. > I agree with David that the first in line for the job is the host of Late Night. In this world Lorne doesn't yet run the Tonight Show so there could be some resistance to giving the slot to him. If there were any competition or the network announced they were looking outside for a new host it wouldn't make for the kind of stories that came out during Letterman/Leno or even O'Brien/Leno. And choosing a middle aged white man to host won't help things. The late night shows aren't the revenue generators they once were and they certainly have lost a lot of influence. I don't see the late night shows coming to an end as Kevin would like . I can see the budgets get slashed and the shows becoming low rent plugfests. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGPO_0NyFE-FjGL1BfwGxseZ%3Dq3cq2ycTweV7hi5C9ndQ%40mail.gmail.com.
