Leno to leave NBC’s ‘Tonight Show’ next spring
Jay Leno says he will be leaving NBC’s “Tonight Show” next spring, to be replaced by Jimmy Fallon. Leno announced the move Wednesday in a news release.
Jay Leno says he will be leaving NBC’s “Tonight Show” next spring, to be replaced by Jimmy Fallon. Leno announced the move Wednesday in a news release.
NBC says it is conscious about the amount of violence it airs in the wake of real-life tragedies, but it isn’t really an issue because NBC isn’t the “shoot-’em-up” network.
On his upcoming NBC comedy, Michael J. Fox will play a newscaster who had quit his job due to Parkinson’s Disease but returns to work in the show’s first episode because a new medical regimen has helped him control many of the disease’s symptoms.
For many years now, NBC’s “Today” show has topped the ratings for morning TV in the United States. However, starting this year, its main rival, “Good Morning, America,” has occasionally been chalking up better viewership figures, prompting the erstwhile leader to shake up the way it does things.
NBC said its benefit concert for Superstorm Sandy victims drew nearly $23 million in donations to the American Red Cross.
About 100 protesters in New York gathered Monday to speak out against a new NBC television reality show that will pair celebrities and service members for quasi-military exercises.
NBC defended itself Monday against Sharon Osbourne’s claim the network discriminated against her afflicted son in casting a new reality show.
What was once a rumor, as we reported recently, has swiftly come to pass: Ann Curry has been dismissed from her plum post as female host of NBC’s long running morning show, “Today.” Her replacement is former junior segment host, Savannah Guthrie.
RUMOR has it that Ann Curry, Matt Lauer’s co-host on NBC’s “Today” show, may not be around much longer, because she’s being blamed for the daily morning show’s dip in viewership ratings.
RIGHT after our piece on comedy on TV (“Laughing All the Way to the Bank”) came out last month comes confirmatory word from the States that the NBC network is mightily striving to attract more viewers by unveiling as many as 10 comedy series this season.
