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Jimmy Fallon is taking over Conan's Late Night show next year

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Fallon is a fidgety bastard. I can't imagine him being able to sit still for an interview...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352397,00.html

Jimmy Fallon Cinches Conan's Job

The word is out among the NBC brass: As rumored and bounced around for some time, Jimmy Fallon is set to take Conan O?Brien?s job as host of "Late Night" in 2009. It?s a done deal.

Conan, of course, will be taking over for Jay Leno, who will leave the "Tonight" show in May 2009 as part of a forced retirement.

There?s much debate about letting Leno leave NBC etc., but right now let?s just concentrate on Jimmy. He?s the perfect successor to Conan and should have just as big an audience when he takes the reins. Fallon is one of those great underrated performers. This should be the right milieu for him.

I?m told NBC will make the formal announcement about Fallon around May 11 or 12, when the network presents the fall '08 schedule to advertisers here in New York.

Fallon, who recently married producer Nancy Juvonen, is said to be thrilled and ready, if not a little scared, about taking Conan?s desk. He still has to pick a producer and a band, among other things.

As for Leno, he has plenty of options. One of them might be to replace "Nightline" on ABC, pushing Jimmy Kimmel back to 12:30 a.m. But a lot can happen between now and May 2009 in the chess game they call TV programming.
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Sad to see Leno forced out. But I like Conan, so it'll be interesting to see how Leno's older audience reacts to Conan's weirdness.
 
meh, ive never liked the guy.

then again, i dont watch late-nite tv, even on the off-chance that im up at that hour, so...meh.
 
I like Conan well enough but forcing Leno out for Conan is just asinine.

And come to think of it I liked Conan a lot better say... 5 years ago. Now I frequently find him annoying.

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Originally posted by: Flammable
why is leno being forced out
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I don't think the plan was for leno to be forced out. Originally he said he was going to retire after 2008, but this was back in '05/'06, now he wants to stay, but by the time he decided this they had already made plans to move Conan forward.

I'm just glad it's not carson daly moving to conan's spot.
 
Originally posted by: Flammable
why is leno being forced out
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From what i can see Leno said I am retiring in X years. Well X years is getting real close and now he wants to stay. problem is NBC already said/offered the job to Conan so leno can;t stay. Rumor is NBC will offer Leno another job somewhere to make sure he doe snot jump ship to ABC.

Best thing IMO is for Dave to retire and let leno take over to stuff it to NBC. Dave owns his show so he still make money and funk off NBC at the same time without doing a thing.
 
A bunch of humorless sourpusses in this thread.

Conan is hilarious. Fallon... we'll see. Maybe he will surprise us. I think they could've done better, but who knows.
 
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