For about a year now Jimmy Kimmel has been trying to convince to Jay Leno not to come to ABC and yesterday all that convincing he has been doing worked because Jay announced that he was staying with NBC. In fact Jay also admitted that a disgruntled employee started the ABC rumors…Leno was that employee. Well now that Jimmy Kimmel Live! is safe, Jimmy Kimmel came clean about the great lengths he went to not to get his frenemy to work at the same network as he does. Did anyone else picture the two of them luffaing each other?
UPDATE: I don’t want to do another post about Jay Leno’s new show, so I going to post these great quotes from some really talented show executive producers about the 5 less hours dedicated to scripted television on NBC from The Hollywood Reporter.
“As entertaining as Jay is, I think it’s too bad that NBC is making choices primarily from a financial consideration vs. putting on the best possible work,” said panel moderator Peter Tolan, co-creator/executive producer of FX’s “Rescue Me.”
He and Chuck Lorre, co-creator/executive producer of CBS’ “Two and a Half Men” and “The Big Bang Theory,” asked, “Is NBC considered the Big Four anymore?”
Al Jean, the executive producer of Fox’s “The Simpsons,” joked that NBC could further enhance its standing by bringing back late talk-show maven Johnny Carson and giving him the 9 p.m. hour.
I think Al Jean gave NBC an idea, I bet they are trying to figure out how Heroes’ Suresh could give Johnny Carson a blood transfusion of Claire’s blood. Or maybe they will try to get Hiro to go back in time and stop Carson from smoking his first cigarette? Oh wait if Hiro does that we would have never had that classic moment between Don Rickles and Johnny Carson when Rickles broke his cigarette box.
