B&C on Leno: Everything old is new again

[M-D November]

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/blog/BC_Beat/26070-NBC_Shakes_Up_The_Format_For_The_Jay_Leno_Show_.php

"“The signature pieces people like such as ‘Headlines,’ ‘Jay Walking,’
those will be the pieces that bring us into the 11 o’clock news,” Leno
said at the Television Critics Association Summer press tour in
August. “We want to provide a strong lead-in for the 11 o’clock news.”

Indeed, since its launch September 14 launch, Leno has presented
Headlines every Monday night as the last segment of the show.

However, on Monday, November 9, the show finally broke from that mold,
and returned to a format much closer to that of Leno’s Tonight Show.
As usual, the program opened with Leno’s monologue, followed by a
commercial break. Then, just as on Tonight, Leno presented Headlines,
less than 15 minutes into the program. That was followed by another
commercial break, before welcoming Kathy Griffin on as his first
guest.

The first half hour or so of Monday’s Jay Leno Show was nearly
identical to the first half hour of Leno’s Tonight Show.

A spokesperson for NBC says that Headlines will be towards the front
of the show again next week (Nov. 16). Other episodes will feature a
retooled format as well, with certain comedy bits and interviews
appearing earlier or later than they normally would."

[PGage]

They have to do something and this is a good start. It does not help
the news to keep the popular bits to the end, if it means Leno never
has enough viewers worth trying to keep to begin with.

I am most interested in the information there that Kathy Griffin was
the guest on Monday night - that, combined with the attractive MNF,
may have helped drive away straight men in the demo, and explain his
particularly poor performance.