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We've been through this before: Talk show mainstay gets ready to step down, setting off a replacement scramble, a shifting of the TV landscape and general hand wringing and prognostication.

A new game and anyone can play: Let's call it Extreme Makeover, the Network Edition.

NIGHT talk show TV has passed me by. Sleep beckons before the witching hour so I have no experience with the truly late-night shows.

His name may not be met with instant recognition, even after a career that has spanned 40 years in New York.

Each year around this time, complete-series DVD sets hit the shelves as holiday gift possibilities for TV fans, and this collection of new releases leads off with three.

TO this day, Garry Shandling still wonders what his career would have amounted to without his breakthrough comedy, the one that skewered television conventions even as it religiously observed them and provided a framework for countless imitators.

However, O' Brien was in well-enough shape to quip later that day that the "Last thing I remember I was enjoying the play with Mrs.

Conan is now hosting the "Tonight Show" ... 1955 ] Wedding Bells : Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher walk down the aisle and then go on an 'Aba Dabba Honeymoon'. Four years later Eddie Fisher calls out for help singing "Oh My Papa" ... 1960 ] Vote For Me : The first of four nationally televised debates between presidential candidates John F. Kennedy ...

Steve Allen describes the birth of "The Tonight Show." Isabel Sanford talks about her path from theater to "The Jeffersons." Writer-producer James L. Brooks pulls back the curtain on the creation of "The Simpsons" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," while leading lady Miss Moore offers her own perspective.

Jay Leno never got the memo. The one that read: After nearly two decades topping the late-night ratings with The Tonight Show , it's time to sleep in late and buy more cars.

A U.S. Postal Service stamp emblazoned with the likeness of broadcast pioneer Steve Allen was unveiled Tuesday at Arizona State University's Hayden Library in Tempe.

Although Michael Jackson had spent his later years in isolation, he had lived most of his life in the midst of entertainment world royalty - as he will in his final resting place.

I'd like to think that in the special waiting lounge for skeptics in the Great Beyond, the late great Steve Allen, author of so many of the great live visual stunts in late-night television history, was watching when this tremendous sight gag played out on Thursday's "Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien." Max Weinberg has been Bruce Springsteen's ...

Given the orgies of commentary attending the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, deaths that have provided endless scrolls of pious-clucking platitudes about sex, celebrity, mortality, popcult nostalgia, internal demons, and the body as ravaged landscape, the quieter passing of Johnny Carson's Tonight show sidekick Ed McMahon resembles a ...

For every pioneer, for every Roald Amundsen, every Christopher Columbus, every Edmund Hillary, there was always the guy who slogged along behind, kept the powder dry and the boss on course.

Conan O'Brien insists he has not "gone Hollywood," even though he's about to take over from Jay Leno as host of TV's most preeminent and prestigious forum for late-night conversation, The Tonight Show .

It was August 1976 and this was everything my new wife and I owned: a head-blown VW, two backpacks, two sleeping bags and a tent.

In this May 22, 1992 file photo, talk show host Johnny Carson, right, is shown with the show's announcer Ed McMahon during the final taping of the "Tonight Show" in Burbank, Ca.

Could the reshuffling of late-night TV hosts spell the return of the "serious" guest to late night? Or -- as Conan replaces Jay, Jay launches a nightly prime-time hour, Jimmy Fallon tries to hang on to Conan's old show, and Letterman, Kimmel and Ferguson continue to march in place -- has our evolution into an infotainment society outgrown the ...

Conan O'Brien, the new host of The Tonight Show , is funny, witty, and possesses the sort of affable geekiness that makes him seem approachable.