Jay Leno News

For those who dig jazz, whether it's cool, slow and blue or red hot and hoppin', there's the Edmonton International Jazz Festival , which runs through Sunday, July 5th.Acts at the festival so far have included John Abercrombie Organ Trio and Branford Marsalis Quartet.

Television host Jay Leno has won control of a Web address using the name of his new show.

Hit and miss. Not a disaster exactly - even if it did sound as if Eddie Vedder's mic cut out during Pearl Jam's set late in the show - but no roaring success, either.

When Conan O'Brien stepped in for Jay Leno as host of The Tonight Show, the average viewing age of NBC's late-night lineup immediately dropped.

NBC kicks off the Fall 2009 season on Monday, September 14 with the highly anticipated primetime debut of The Jay Leno Show , followed by the premiere of the network's marquee night of comedy on Thursday, September 17, as Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday and new series Community join Parks and Recreation and Emmy winner The Office .

Posted Jun 25th 2009 3:17PM by Bob Sassone Filed under: Industry , Programming , Reality-Free It's always great to hear the fall premiere dates for shows.

I am a ' Hercules!! SNL hits primetime nine days before its traditional late-night debut.

We've got the fall premiere dates for 30 Rock , The Office and Law & Order: SVU below.

When Conan O'Brien stepped in for Jay Leno as host of The Tonight Show, the average viewing age of NBC's late-night lineup immediately dropped.

Rob Salem T here's a lot of talk about late-night talk, but it has nothing to do with celebrity guests.

Q Why did Jimmy Fallon decide to host a late-night talk show, rather than following in the footsteps of so many other former Saturday Night Live stars by making movies? - Stephen Higgins, Oneonta, N.Y. When Fallon, 34, left SNL, executive producer Lorne Michaels shared that NBC would be searching for a late-night replacement for Conan O'Brien, who ...

To the long list of casualties of political polarization, are we about to add late night talk shows? Please, please no.

During the David Letterman - Sarah Palin furor, I heard from readers who complained that the press was too easy on the CBS late-night host.

While network television demands on-time starts, the former host of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" had his audience at The Show at the Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa holding their collective breath Friday night for a few minutes after the anticipated start time.

I didna t comment on the David Letterman-Sarah Palin flap last week becausea wella .whata s the point? Letterman has been irrelevant since about 1995 when The Tonight Show with Jay Leno surpassed Lettermana s Late Show in the ratings.

CBS and ABC have made it clear that they think competing against Jay Leno at 10 p.m. will work to their advantage.

Sarah Palin is attacking David Letterman for daring to make a joke involving her daughter.

I guess I'm just trying to be devil's advocate or something, there have been hundreds of jokes.

Sarah Palin would no doubt be horrified by the idea, but there's a chance she could become the same boon to David Letterman's career that Hugh Grant was to Jay Leno's. Grant's 1995 appearance on NBC's "Tonight" show after a prostitution arrest, where Leno famously asked "what were you thinking?," was seen in retrospect as a turning point in the ...

That was fast! After only seven days on the job, Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show suffered its very first ratings loss to their dreaded rivals over at CBS.