The recent talk that NBC is set to replace Jay Leno as host of The Tonight Show with Late Night's Jimmy Fallon is heating up, with the newest reports out yesterday (March 20th) saying the network also plans to move the show from L.A. to New York, where it began six decades ago before moving out to California in 1972, 10 years into Johnny Carson's 30-year tenure.
NBC confirmed Wednesday that it's building a new studio for
Fallon in New York, where he hosts Late Night. But it didn't comment on the New York Times
report that the studio may become home to a Fallon-hosted Tonight Show.
Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter said yesterday that Fallon
has contacted Leno in an effort to help smooth the potential succession. Leno's
Tonight Show contract expires in September 2014, but The Hollywood Reporter
story says some at NBC are eyeing a Fallon takeover as early as next February,
to take advantage of the promotional platform of the 2014 Winter Olympics in
Sochi, Russia.
In a Fallon cover story for the April issue of GQ, Late
Night executive produce Lorne Michaels seemingly confirmed the transition,
stating, "I'm not allowed to say it -- yet. But I think there's an
inevitability to it. [Fallon's] the closest to Carson that I've seen of this
generation."
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