Jim Bell on his way out from NBC

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Bob Jersey

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Nov 4, 2019, 3:50:46 PM11/4/19
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The head of production and programming at NBC Olympics, former exec of "Today" and current exec of Fallon's "Tonight Show," ends nearly thirty years with the network.

Gavin Purcell, a familiar face to Jimmy, takes over there, but reportedly only for a limited time.


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Kevin M.

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Nov 4, 2019, 4:09:05 PM11/4/19
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I see viral clips of Colbert on my newsfeeds constantly. Also lots of Conan clips. Occasionally but rarely I see something from Late Late Show or Kimmel. To date, the only thing I’ve seen go viral from Fallon was him messing up Trump’s “hair.” And I can’t recall seeing anything from Seth or Trevor in recent years either. The 

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Nov 4, 2019, 7:27:49 PM11/4/19
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I suspect that is partly an incomplete sample - Trevor has a pretty vigorous social media presence, often centered in his informal “off camera” chats with the audience, but also from interviews and comedy pieces. I hardly ever watch his show any more, and don’t follow him on any social media directly, and still feel like I have a pretty good sense of his show. 

But your point about Fallon holds. It was not that long ago that conventional wisdom was that he had changed the rules for Late Night, that it was all about producing viral, evergreen comedy bits for sir social media linking, no longer topical, political monologues or (relatively) substantive interviews. Yet now Fallon seems almost absent from social media, while CBS aggressively sends out two or three memable still images per night with pull quotes from the show, and often links to high impact clips, almost always from his very political monologues or substantive interviews, like the one last week when Cynthia Erivo made him cry singing Aretha Franklin en panel.

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Bob Jersey

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Nov 21, 2019, 2:14:41 PM11/21/19
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Moi, Nov 4th:
The head of production and programming at NBC Olympics, former exec of "Today" and current exec of Fallon's "Tonight Show," ends nearly thirty years with the network.



His successor will be Molly Solomon, the Golf Channel EP who's worked 10 previous Olympiads...


Now all that remains is the positioning of as many events to East Coast primetime as possible.

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