Leno was moved to prime time with his own program, "The Jay Leno Show, " in the fall of 2009.
Last Thursday, NBC executives told me they intended to move the Tonight Show to 12:05 to accommodate the Jay Leno Show at 11:35.
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Jay Leno show in what McPherson has dubbed a "cost-containment effort"--ABC heads into another television season with its most aggressive development slate in years.
While The Jay Leno Show won't deliver much by way of ancillary revenue streams like syndication, international and DVDs, it will shave millions off the network's weekly production budget.
Leno told the television press last month that he can make an entire week's worth of The Jay Leno Show for the cost of a single CSI: Miami episode.
Just a week-and-a-half after NBC officially canceled his Jay Leno Show, the host of the network's failed prime-time experiment is being restored to his 11:35 p.m. time slot on March 1.
The network's dismal showing led Zucker to replace five weekly hours of costly scripted drama with The Jay Leno Show, a financially minded decision that's been blasted by many in the creative community.
Despite the disaster that was The Jay Leno Show (the comedian will return to his 11:35 p.m. perch Monday night) and a little-watched slate of original series, the network has the Olympics to thank for a seasonal ratings climb.
Late-night television show host Jay Leno will be replaced by presenter Jimmy Fallon on NBC's The Tonight Show, the US network has said.
"The average median age of Jay Leno on The Tonight Show was 54, " he wrote in a report last month.
The network has committed to comic Jimmy Fallon, who will succeed Jay Leno, host of the Tonight Show, when Mr. Leno steps down.
Talk show host Jay Leno had a question last night for former Senator Fred Thompson.
"I'm not saying it's true, " Maher told Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" last month.
In a startling break with tradition, Ron Paul took a few quick jabs at his Republican rivals on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Friday.
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They get deals on instruments in exchange for playing their Laklands at high-profile gigs--a spot on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, say, or a televised concert.
First, Tonight Show host Jay Leno started using his nightly monologue to call out NBC executives who are trying to ease him out of his hosting spot.
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Obama's communications gifts are powerful and poetic -- but round-the-clock campaigning on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, " "60 Minutes" and this press conference won't save bad policy.
During a recent appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, " California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger threw cold water on talk of tweaking the Constitution to restrict marriage to heterosexual couples.
He'll then tape a Tonight Show with Jay Leno in L.A. He will then hold a late-night rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, where Katy Perry will perform at the event.
President Obama has at least acknowledged the frustrations of the OWS protesters in his public speeches and during an unprecedented appearance (by a sitting President) on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Oct. 25, 2011.
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My only advice to the president is do what you think is right on health care and don't get so overexposed on television that we treat you like an old rerun of Jay Leno's "Tonight Show, " which now we can see every night in prime time.
Though the stoppage over new media compensation will continue indefinitely, a handful of those shows, including General Electric -owned NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, as well as Walt Disney-owned ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, will return to the screen without writers on Jan. 2.
Though the stoppage over new media compensation will continue indefinitely, a handful of those shows, including General Electric -owned (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, as well as Walt Disney-owned (nyse: DIS - news - people )ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, will return to the screen without writers on Jan. 2.
Speaking from a rain-soaked red carpet, the star pondered her employer's very public spat over the talk show contracts of Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien.
Krishna, talked in January of lodging a formal complaint over a quip by Jay Leno, an American talk-show host, who said the Sikhs' revered Golden Temple in Amritsar was in fact Mitt Romney's holiday home.
Gingrich, who recently survived an attempted coup to oust him as speaker, will visit 13 cities in 13 days, beginning in San Diego on Monday, where he will appear on NBC's "Tonight Show" with Jay Leno.
Tonight Show watchers (when Jay Leno was still hosting) hovered at around 55, and both Comedy Central shows continue to attract the most young men.
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Letterman's deal gives his show a distinct advantage over the likes of Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel, who face the prospect of presenting an hour-long nightly television show without scribes to pen their monologues, sketches and other written material.
While all eyes have been focused on Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon in the battle over The Tonight Show, NBC officials have reportedly also been talking to actor Alec Baldwin.
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