So a few years ago Jay Leno said he was giving up his The Tonight Show, but as the deadline was approaching he decided he wanted to stay but he was already replaced by Conan O’Brien. So NBC worked out a nice deal with him and gave him an earlier slot of 10p and moved him to primetime. So you would think he would be happy? But after watching a clip from last night’s The Jay Leno Show, I think he might want his old timeslot back? As you will see it looks like he is the reason why Conan O’Brien fell on his noggin? So do you think was an accident or was it on purpose?
There had been rumors that ABC and CBS had been banning their talent from doing NBC’s The Jay Leno Show and looks like last night Julia Louis Dreyfus confirmed it when she appeared on his show. When I saw she was on his show, I was like I thought she wasn’t allowed to be on his show because The New Adventures of Old Christine is on CBS, and thought since he isn’t a threat to their 10p shows they said OK. But in reality it according to her it was her saying she was going to do his show. It will be interesting to see if any other ABC and CBS stars will cross The Jay Leno Show line when they have stuff to promote that isn’t related to their network’s shows. Personally I can’t blame the networks for saying no because he is direct competition to their programming and so far he has only beat one show in the ratings. Which I guess means that Christian Slater’s the forgotten might be living up to its name soon???
After years of promising us that he would retire from the Tonight Show in 2009, Jay Leno is keeping his promise. Tonight is his last show on NBC’s late night schedule. That is until he moves to his early bird special of 10p in September. So say goodbye to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight on NBC at 11:35p.
Jay Leno returned to his talk show tonight on NBC at 11:35p after his brief hospitalization late last week. I don’t know what was is that stuff they used to rehydrate him, but he was funnier than I have seen him a long time! Seriously who else besides me could actually see Conan O’Brien trying to snuff him out with a pillow? Starting next month he will Jay’s 11:35p slot, but I am sure he would rather have Jay’s 10p slot!
On the first night of sweeps, Jay Leno was so sick he was taken to the hospital for unknown reasons and was forced to cancel tonight and tomorrow’s taping. According to People, he wasn’t feeling well, so one of his co-workers took him to a nearby hospital. His rep says he is doing fine and, “He was kidding around with the hospital staff and running his monologue jokes by the doctors and the nurses,” says NBC’s Tracy St. Pierre. “He’s expected back to work on Monday.” Hopefully he will be better soon.
While he might be better soon, lots of big wigs at NBC are probably sh!tting a brick right now because sweeps is so huge and they really needed Jay to help Jimmy Fallon as a lead-in before he exits the show later this month for the 10p slot in the fall. And that must make the NBC execs really nervous, will he still be able to handle the show next season? I would hate to be them now. See that is what they get for cutting the Heroes order from 20 to 18 next year.
