'Jay Leno Show' format revealed
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NBC's 'Leno Show', Thursday Comedies Get Head Start
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NBC's full premiere rollout below:
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...me too! Conan is better suited for the late-late-night audience and Letterman (my opinion) hasn't been funny since he left NBC. I wonder how much of the late-night audience Jay is going to take from Conan/Letterman ~or~ if people are willing to tune-in at 10pm.
Leno to 10:30 ?
Maybe.
From Washington Post's Lisa de Moraes (who knows her subject, usually) :
Leno at 10:30? - Moraes on TV
NBC might move Leno to a slot from 10:30 to 11:35, (or more likely 10:35 to 11:35) followed by O'Brien's Tonight Show at 11:35, with local stations doing news at 10. Subtract one hour for Central and Mountain.
Makes perfect sense to me. At least as an optional deal. Stations are not going to put up with this punting of 5 hours of primetime for very long.
Maybe.
From Washington Post's Lisa de Moraes (who knows her subject, usually) :
Leno at 10:30? - Moraes on TV
NBC might move Leno to a slot from 10:30 to 11:35, (or more likely 10:35 to 11:35) followed by O'Brien's Tonight Show at 11:35, with local stations doing news at 10. Subtract one hour for Central and Mountain.
Makes perfect sense to me. At least as an optional deal. Stations are not going to put up with this punting of 5 hours of primetime for very long.
Funny. It says to me that NBC has given up on being a full network and is dropping back to 2 hours a night. Hoping that moving Leno after the news will salvage their late night.
I would rather see Leno keep the 10-11pm slot, but NBC probably realized folks will tune-out after watching Leno and the first 15-minutes of the local news. We shall see...
Actually a good idea.
Several markets with a strong FOX affiliate have successful 10pm Local News Shows. This would allow the NBC affiliates to fight for that slot. 10pm News Slots are very popular with the "have to wake up early for work" crowd.
The problem for NBC though, would be those that would then watch the News @ 10, and then go to bed. But some good "Next on Leno" spots might keep the viewers interested.
Several markets with a strong FOX affiliate have successful 10pm Local News Shows. This would allow the NBC affiliates to fight for that slot. 10pm News Slots are very popular with the "have to wake up early for work" crowd.
The problem for NBC though, would be those that would then watch the News @ 10, and then go to bed. But some good "Next on Leno" spots might keep the viewers interested.
One of the things I have always liked about living in central time is that prime time is 7-10 not 8-11. I lived on the East Coast and 11pm news is a drag when you have to get up early for work.
It's unfortunate that NBC chose to use 5 hours per week of this. That leaves 10 hours per week of prime time for everything else. No one person is that good. Then again, I am not in their ideal demographic so they are not targeting me.
Given the announcement of moving the news up 1/2 hour, you can say he is back to late night. At the very least, he is only taking up 2.5 hours, with local news taking up the other 2.5.
They aren't changing the time of the show. It will be from 10pm to 11pm. The local news will still come on at 11pm.
The Leno Show is going to subtract one hour from primetime. I really don't see Leno at 10pm attracting enough of an audience. NBC is one of the cheapest OTA networks, all they are trying to do is fill a timeslot 5 days a week for less than the cost of a 1 Hour Drama.
Leno is very overrated.
John
Leno is very overrated.
John
