Jay Leno
I have good news and bad news for those of you who love Jay Leno. His 10 pm Eastern time show has been canceled. It wasn’t doing well enough to keep going and it was giving the local networks a problem getting their audiences back. Most people were watching other networks by then, it would appear, and then didn’t flip back to the NBC local news. But the bad news is this: he won’t be back out on the comedy club tour for all of you to see. You might have thought that he would be ready to get back out to live performances with the end of his nightly show. But thus comes some good news. He will apparently be back in the 11:35 slot, the traditional beginning of the Tonight Show. They haven’t yet announced whether he will simply take back the Tonight Show and Conan O’Brien goes elsewhere or if Conan’s Tonight Show will simply start after a half hour of Jay Leno. It’s a tough situation for everyone involved, but you probably shouldn’t expect to see any of them on the comedy circuit anytime soon.
