The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

#2
#2
Nope, Apparently know one (but NBC) can figure out why NBC would push Leno out when he was still on top of the ratings!

I just think this is going to come back and bite NBC especially if Leno jumps to Fox.
 
#3
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CagleMtnVol said:
Nope, Apparently know one (but NBC) can figure out why NBC would push Leno out when he was still on top of the ratings!

I just think this is going to come back and bite NBC especially if Leno jumps to Fox.
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Leno says isn't going anywhere else.
 
#4
#4
Oxygen must be really thin in Dunlap.

A+ show and looking forward to watching every night. Letterman should now be officially buried in the ratings.
 
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Notorious B.E.N said:
Leno says isn't going anywhere else.
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Of course he is saying that, he is still under contract at NBC. NBC is paying Leno $15 million to leave early and will be paying Jay up until September when his contract is out.

When Conan O’Brien took over the ratings were initially good but by the end of the first month "Tonight's" ratings began to fall like a rock and NBC reluctantly had to put Jay back on the show just two months later. I'm sure Fallon's ratings will be good as well especially with the Olympics lead in this week but six months from now?
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
Of course he is saying that, he is still under contract at NBC. NBC is paying Leno $15 million to leave early and will be paying Jay up until September when his contract is out.

When Conan O’Brien took over the ratings were initially good but by the end of the first month "Tonight's" ratings began to fall like a rock and NBC reluctantly had to put Jay back on the show just two months later. I'm sure Fallon's ratings will be good as well especially with the Olympics lead in this week but six months from now?
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Probably won't be better than Jay's ratings but im pretty sure they're expecting that. They will still be better than Dave. Im excited for it amd Jimmy.
 
#7
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I hope Jimmy succeeds. I love his musical parodies.

And it was time for Leno to go. Letterman needs to step aside as well IMO. They were good at one time, but their material has gone stale with age. Honestly, when I watched an 11:30 late night show, I was watching Kimmel. Now I'll watch Fallon.

Late night Jimmies. There's a joke there somewhere.
 
#8
#8
The king of late night from a familiarity standpoint was always Leno, but Jimmy Kimmel has been the king the last few years in terms of having an entertaining and fresh show. I was never able to get into Fallon's show before he moved. I may give him another try now that he's on a new show.
 
#9
#9
I think Jimmy will do well. Conan hasn't been as good since his move to TBS. I think the ability to use edgier humor has worked against him.
 
#11
#11
I never watch the late night shows but I occasionally check out the popular clips on-line. Never was Leno fan so i wont miss him.

Are the Roots still with Fallon?
 
#12
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CagleMtnVol said:
Of course he is saying that, he is still under contract at NBC. NBC is paying Leno $15 million to leave early and will be paying Jay up until September when his contract is out.

When Conan O’Brien took over the ratings were initially good but by the end of the first month "Tonight's" ratings began to fall like a rock and NBC reluctantly had to put Jay back on the show just two months later. I'm sure Fallon's ratings will be good as well especially with the Olympics lead in this week but six months from now?
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Conan's Tonight Show never had a chance as NBC lost their freaking minds and put "The Jay Leno Show" on during the last hour of primetime. Pretty much killed any reason to stay up past the local news.
 
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bamawriter said:
Conan's Tonight Show never had a chance as NBC lost their freaking minds and put "The Jay Leno Show" on during the last hour of primetime. Pretty much killed any reason to stay up past the local news.
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They did that to keep him from jumping ship to another network.

They have already talked about Leno having a show every couple of months or so something along the lines of the Bob Hope specials back in the day. They know that Leno is still a ratings winner.
 
#14
#14
Leno was awful (my wife said he comedy for boring people), and thank God he is gone (I hope for good this time).

I wish Fallon well. His show (along with Kimmel) have had some of the best clips over the last couple of years.
 
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#16
I'd ranked my favorite late night hosts as follows;

1. Craig Ferguson
2. Jimmy Fallon
3. Conan
4. Letterman
5. Kimmel
6. Leno

Top three are the best IMO. Letterman is just old, Kimmel is meh, and I flat out couldn't stand Leno.
 
#17
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Vol Karma said:
Leno was awful (my wife said he comedy for boring people), and thank God he is gone (I hope for good this time).

I wish Fallon well. His show (along with Kimmel) have had some of the best clips over the last couple of years.
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That is the truth.
 
#20
#20
The reviews and ratings are out, with a couple of interesting reads!

The LA Times - 'Tonight Show' ratings: Can Jimmy Fallon go the distance for NBC?
'Tonight Show' ratings: Can Jimmy Fallon go the distance for NBC?

Jimmy Fallon's first night had almost everything: A parade of A-list walk-ons, U2 on a rooftop ... and some high ratings.

An average of 11.3 million total viewers tuned in to the premiere of NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," according to Nielsen. Fallon took over the fabled talk show from Jay Leno and, amid a burst of publicity, moved "Tonight" back to New York for the first time since 1972.

The numbers don't quite match the 14.6 million who turned up to see Leno's last episode of "Tonight" this month. But in an encouraging sign for NBC, Fallon's audience was significantly larger than the ill-fated 2009 premiere for Conan O'Brien (9.2 million), who hosted "Tonight" for only a few months before Leno was brought back. Fallon's audience probably would have been even bigger but for the midnight start time, because of coverage of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Realizing the high stakes, Fallon and his producers stacked the first show with high-profile talent, including Will Smith as guest, U2 performing on the rooftop at Rockefeller Center and a comedy bit featuring a parade of celebrities including Robert DeNiro, Seth Rogen, Tina Fey and Mariah Carey.

But of course, one night doesn't mean much in the world of late-night talk, where rival hosts such as David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert (who did a cameo on Fallon's opener) vie for attention. Viewing habits take a long time to develop and a long time to break. So what really matters is how the audience feels about Fallon months down the road, when the novelty has worn off and there isn't any Olympics for NBC to use as a promotional platform.

"The ratings next May and November will be far more important than the first week or two and [will be] indicative of how Fallon stacks up versus Letterman, Kimmel, Conan and Colbert," said Brad Adgate, an analyst for Horizon Media in New York.

However, there is one area that already might be of concern to NBC executives. Fallon's opening rating in the adults aged 18 to 49 category -- the key demographic for late-night entertainment -- was a 3.8. As it happens, that is exactly the same rating that O'Brien got for his opening night, and the network and its affiliates were hardly thrilled with O'Brien's numbers over the long haul. Yes, it's still early, but it must be disappointing to station managers that on his first night (and with huge Olympics promotion), Fallon did no better than O'Brien among the young adults they are most eager to reach.
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Entertainment Weekly - Jimmy Fallon first 'Tonight Show' rating: Strong, but below Leno farewell

Jimmy Fallon first 'Tonight Show' rating: Strong, but below Leno farewell

Jimmy Fallon picked up strong sampling during his first night as NBC’s new The Tonight Show host, yet couldn’t surpass the recent record set by a departing Jay Leno.

Fallon had a 7.1 rating in the overnight metered-market household ratings Monday night, which was higher rated than all but two of last week’s prime-time non-Olympic programs on NBC’s rivals and up 48 percent from the Feb. 7 finale of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. That also ties for the second-highest Tonight Show overnight rating since 2009 (Leno’s last telecast before Conan O’Brien took over) and also tied O’Brien’s Tonight debut that same year.

Yet Fallon was down 23 percent from Leno’s final Tonight episode, which had a giant 9.2 rating, though it should be noted that Fallon’s first Tonight started about 25 minutes later in the evening. Both Leno’s final Tonight and Fallon’s first benefited from a huge lead-in from NBC’s coverage of the Sochi Winter Olympics (though interestingly, O’Brien matched Fallon’s rating without Olympic support, plus debuted in the summer).

The big test for Fallon, of course, is not in this heavily promoted post-Olympics premiere slot, but the weeks, months and years to come. It’s a cliche to write that a TV show’s ratings are a marathon not a sprint, but it’s a cliche that’s never more true than when analyzing late-night talk shows.

Behind the desk, Fallon’s first night was playful and competent (if workmanlike and polite). As noted in EW’s review: “Time-slot rival Jimmy Kimmel is the inheritor of the Letterman tradition: Too cool for school. Fallon is the guy who thinks school is pretty cool.”

While EW’s Owen Gleiberman wrote an essay on Fallon’s succession arguing that the late-night host could be the next Johnny Carson, noting, “Jimmy Fallon is an exuberantly witty late-night party host who radiates a love for what he’s doing that can’t be matched.”

Also last night in prime-time: NBC’s Sochi coverage climbed for men’s skiing coverage, averaging 23.5 million viewers and a 5.6 adults 18-49 rating. This is up 11 percent from the comparable night in Vancouver, marking a rare surge for NBC’s Sochi coverage that goes above 2010 levels. ABC’s The Bachelor, Fox’s Almost Human and The Following were all steady with last week’s low Olympics-crushed numbers. The CW shoved new Twilight-but-with-aliens soap drama Star-Crossed into the Sochi firing line and it unsurprisingly got only 1.2 million viewers and a 0.4 rating.
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Burhead said:
I'd ranked my favorite late night hosts as follows;

1. Craig Ferguson
2. Jimmy Fallon
3. Conan
4. Letterman
5. Kimmel
6. Leno

Top three are the best IMO. Letterman is just old, Kimmel is meh, and I flat out couldn't stand Leno.
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Ferguson? Can't stand that guy. I love Kimmel but don'[t really watch any late night. Probably 2-3 times a year.
 
#24
#24
Really enjoyed the first episode. From the looks of things it's basically going to be the same show it's always been just in an earlier timeslot, which is a good thing.
 
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