For months if has been rumored that Jimmy Fallon would be taking over The Tonight Show from Jay Leno and today NBC announced it will be happening next Spring.
Jay Leno, who hosted the show for 22 years said “Congratulations Jimmy. I hope you’re as lucky as me and hold on to the job until you’re the old guy. If you need me, I’ll be at the garage.â€
And Fallon, who will be moving the show back to 30 Rock, had this to say about his quick promotion, “I’m really excited to host a show that starts today instead of tomorrow.â€
NBC justified their stupid decision by saying, “We are purposefully making this change when Jay is #1, just as Jay replaced Johnny Carson when he was #1. Jimmy Fallon is a unique talent and this is his time. I’m thrilled he will become the sixth host of ‘The Tonight Show’ at exactly the right moment, in conjunction with our coverage of next year’s Winter Olympic Games from Sochi, Russia.”
Well got to hand it to NBC, who is sinking faster than the Titanic, they are really out to destroy the network. I mean how and why do you get rid of the only thing that you have that is #1. Today lost that title to Good Morning America within the last year. Their primetime is behind CBS, ABC, Fox and Univision in the ratings. So the only thing they had going for them was their late night block. Well not anymore.
I just think that Fallon isn’t ready for the job. When he takes over The Tonight Show, he will not even have been hosting Late Night for 5 years. While he is great with his musical numbers and his games with the guests, he still needs to work on the rest of his show. I think his monologue isn’t fluid enough and his interviews are more about him than the guests. Plus he kisses their a$$es so much, it is hard to watch. That is why you never see any of his interviews getting international attention like the other hosts because there is nothing to them. He really needs to work on that before he takes over the primo late night show. Either that or just have him do skits and games with the guests instead of interviewing them.
Plus his other problem is because he is keeping the show in NYC, he will be competing with David Letterman for the big guests. Since his ratings will plummet (see Conan O’Brien’s when he took over The Tonight Show who is better off at TBS), The Late Show will be getting the big names first.
Now when it comes to the ratings, I honestly predict that The Tonight Show will fall to third place behind Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Show. I think that JKL scared NBC so much that they got rid of Leno and because of that it will make Kimmel’s show #1. I think the Leno deserters will be tuning to Kimmel because they haven’t been tuning into Fallon in all of this time. I think they will be discovering Kimmel over the next year and they are going to stay with him. I am not saying that because I am fan, I just think he will be more what they are looking for.
So what about the rumors that Seth Meyers is slated to get Late Night? I think that is a f*cking ridiculous choice. Who is he? He has never become a name. NBC needs to get a name in that job and someone who can do a talk show. Meyers has no experience and his inexperience might be the push in the ratings that Craig Ferguson needs to be #1 at 12:35a.
Finally I still don’t think this change is going to happen. Even though NBC announced it, I think that Robert Greenblatt is going to be fired after this TV season ends in May and he will be replaced by someone with more brains. That person will keep his only #1 time period as is and not f*ck with the one thing that isn’t broke.
Seriously NBC are you drinking the Kool-Aid from Jamestown? I think everyone is wondering what you are doing over there?
UPDATE: David Letterman really ripped Jay Leno and NBC a new one tonight on The Late Show at 11:35p on CBS. He really killed it tonight, but then again this was only 22 years in the making.
If you are like me, then Huey Lewis and the News’ Hip to be Square was forever ruined for you after you saw American Psycho. Well FunnyOrDie got Huey Lewis to recreate that infamous scene with Weird Al Yankovic as his Jared Leto and once again I can listen to that song. Unfortunately now I am going to have a problem listening to I Want a New Drug the same way.
Seriously that recreation is as genius as the movie that starred Christian Bale in back in 2000.
I wonder how long Huey Lewis has wanted to do this? The bit and what he did to Weird Al.
In case you don’t remember that scene from American Psycho, you watch can how perfectly Huey Lewis copied the original version below.
Ryan Murphy is having a bad week; first Cory Monteith suddenly entered rehab before filming the final two eps of the season and now Heather Morris is rumored to be pregnant. According to Us Weekly a source told them she is a little over three months along with her high school sweetheart’s baby. While her pregnancy won’t change things for this season, next season it will be hard to hide. So what will Glee do? Make her smart enough to graduate and disappear. Or it has been a few years since one of her classmates was having a baby, so now is a good time for another one to come our way? I guess we will have to wait and see. That is if Fox picks up the show for another season which they didn’t do in their first round of renewals.
Conan O’Brien is doing his show in Atlanta this week, the same city where they film The Walking Dead. Well when two of the jail people heard about that, they decided to seek cover in his studios. What happens next will not be good because Merle and Carol are not used to being around so many non-walkers.
BTW I wonder if there is some spoilery stuff going on because we all know that one of them became a biter, so how did they come back as living?
