NBC says “Not tonight, Tonight Show”

[Kevin M.]

Johnny Carson could get away with it. The 12:35 shows could get away with it. I don’t believe Fallon gets away with this. 

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/tonight-show-jimmy-fallon-four-nights-per-week-nbc-1236135343/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1tT5E8Zo22JwuNwgiS97xdTXoICXlPUhTDgLwA7cOJ8ngVKwRvwkH15ks_aem_uwexcyGufsGni0diKtFQSw

Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Jim Ellwanger]

No one will notice anything different.

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[JW]

> Johnny Carson could get away with it. The 12:35 shows could get away with

> it. I don’t believe Fallon gets away with this.

I'm not going to look up the exact dates, but by 1980, Carson was doing three new shows a week. Monday was a guest host, and Tuesday was The Best of Carson.

So if the network wants to shows reruns on Fridays now (against the other networks' reruns), who's gonna complain?

[PGage]

Two questions:

1. The Variety story says Fallon is joining Kimmel and Colbert with 4 nights/week; other stories I have seen seem to be saying Kimmel and Colbert were only doing Friday reruns for the summer. Which is correct?

2. NBC recently signed an extension for Fallon; should we assume that was based on 4 nights a week and it was not announced at the time, or did they just cut his workload 20% for the same salary?

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[Steve Timko]

Kimmel had a new show last night

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[Kevin M.]

If any of the late night hosts had as commanding a lead in the time slot as Carson when he negotiated his contract from five days to four (then to three with guest hosts), that’s one thing. But they don’t, so for any of them to take a day off is just sad. Fallon should be grateful to be working at all. 

Kevin M. (RPCV)

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[Jon Delfin]

On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 7:22 PM Steve Timko <steve...@gmail.com> wrote:

Kimmel had a new show last night

and if I'm reading the internet tea leaves correctly, the Friday-taped-on-Thursday Colbert shows are history

[David Bruggeman]

Colbert was a repeat last night.  I remember that Late Show did air five nights a week for a little bit after the strikes were over, but I believe they have been consistently four nights a week for most, if not all, of 2024.

My recollection is that Kimmel has usually been dark on Fridays.  The holiday on Monday may have prompted the Friday show, or since West Coast Jimmy is back from his summer break, he had the material to burn.

And, of course, it probably wasn't taped on Friday.

David

[Tom Wolper]

Kimmel was new last night because Monday’s show was a rerun.

I recently found out that Kimmel takes off from July 4 to Labor Day because that’s what his buddy Howard Stern does.

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[Bob Jersey]

I almost thought Colbert would make up for not producing Labor Day with a Friday episode... Jon's note notwithstanding.     B

Tom Wolper, to David Bruggeman, Steve Timko, PGage, and Kevin M, Sept 7th, in part: