JAY LENO READY FOR PRIMETIME
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Jay Leno is staying put at NBC.
NBC has signed the comic to host a Monday thru Friday talk show at 10pm/ET. Leno has been given a significant pay raise. The show will be live and start in September 2009. The multiyear deal allows NBC to lower its primetime production costs, since it will have five hours of promgramming it will no loner have to worry about. If NBC hadn't signed Leno, it was widely speculated that he would have jumped ship to ABC or Fox.
Conan O'Brien is taking over "The Tonight Show" next year, while Jimmy Fallon takes over his timeslot.
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