With all the money Jay has made, it kills me to know that, according to Jay himself, he only spends his 'stand-up' money and doesnt touch his 'Tonight Show' and 'Leno Show' money.

He has no kids, so I assume the money will go to charity when he dies, but, cmon Jay, help a guy out here!

Not surprised at all.

Can't wait for Law & Order: Leno.

TMZ is reporting he is moving back to his 11:30 time slot:

http://www.tmz.com/2010/01/07/jay-le...-tonight-show/

Well, with that news and Comcast taking over, I think I can officially remove NBC from my channel guide.

TMZ has been pretty reliable, so I'm inclined to think their story is pretty accurate.

Now let's hope some of the 10 drama pilots that NBC is developing gets greenlit to fill the 10pm timeslot in the fall.

TMZ - another reliable source.

Seriously though, that explanation of what NBC wants to do makes NO sense.

TMZ is usually very reliable. I wonder how all of this plays out.

Hard to blame them for THIS decision, they're dying out there. Easy to blame them for being stupid almost to the point of an all-time bad decision to even make the switch.

Second that. Pretty fucked up shit going on here. Dump Conan but keep Falon? Gees.

Sure it does. Leno is probably making them a profit, certainly a more predicable/steady profit than the old 10PM scripted model. However, the affiliates are bitching and moaning because people are watching Leno at 10PM and then going to bed or whatever and not watching the local news.

Moving Leno back to his old spot at 11:30PM will stop that.

Any way you slice it, it was a failure. It's really too bad that Conan gets the shaft.

Oh, good God. If Conan leaves, that'll just leave Craig as the last man standing (who is worth watching).

I'm guessing they would love Conan after Leno instead of Fallon, but Conan might be sick of them screwing him.

Yeah, they really blew that Michael Jackson story.

Hopefully Conan anticipated something like this and is covered in his contract.

The problem is NOBODY is watching Leno, giving the local news ZERO lead-in. Where I live, the 10pm news on the NBC O&O went from a solid 2nd place to third, losing to the CBS station that has been in the toilet for decades.

They were also the 1st ones to report Brittany Murphy's passing before all the official sources reported it. It's not like this is the National Enquirer reporting it.

Coming soon to a forum near you: 100's of "I can't believe NBC put this garbage show at 10:00pm" or "Damn you NBC for canceling those 10 shows that had a solid 3 million viewers with a 1.0 in the demo" posts...

Everyone is covered in their contracts.

Leno has 1 'season' left. They can cancel him, and pay him out. Done. 10pm goes back to normal

or
they move him back to 11pm, either pay him the same or a bit more, and cancel Conans contract. I doubt they would dump Falon as they do need some 'fresh meat' in there.

Conan, go to Fox.

If required, I could live with 1/2 hr Leno, 1 hr Conan, and 1 hr Fallon (I'd only watch Conan, though).

The thing that really sucks is that Conan said one of the reasons he stuck with NBC was loyalty.

Wasn't Medium on in that slot for a couple of years?

Honestly, I'm shocked Conan is still on. It's not the same show as it was when he had the 12:30 timeslot and neither incarnation is meant for a mainstream/11:30 audience. I feel bad for Conan though as being the guy who (ratings wise) is killing the Tonight Show, especially after following in the footsteps of the consistently unfunny Leno.

Conan is in a lose-lose position; if he continues on, he'll go down in the history books as a failure, if he does get dropped and goes back to 12:30 it solidifies him as being "second rate."

None of this affects me though, as I only watch Craig Ferguson.

I never thought Leno would last forever at 10/9, but I also never thought he would be back on NBC at 11:30/10:30.

If Leno goes back to 11:30, that means that NBC is obligated much more financially to Jay than Conan.

Still, I cant believe they'd pull the plug on CoCo so fast. I dont buy the story.

NBC not denying...

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...-tonight-show/

They could make The Biggest Loser three hours. There, that's Tuesday!