Comments on: How’s the Jay Leno Show Faring These Days?

By: strumpfhosen

strumpfhosen — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:48:47 +0000

Love him. He’s really funny and I don’t care what anyone else thinks. Thank goodness Conan was replaced, Jay does the job much better. I’ll keep watching him til he’s done doing tv…

By: Teeter Hang ups

Teeter Hang ups — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:54:10 +0000

Jay Leno is funny and like able. He seems so approachable and normal. We watched the
“tonight show” and now we watch Jay at 9:00 (central). He’s never forgotten where he came from unlike that narcissistic boor–Letterman. We love Jay no matter what time he’s on.

By: Is Fox Making A Mistake With Conan O’Brien? - Screen Rant

Is Fox Making A Mistake With Conan O’Brien? - Screen Rant — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:46:44 +0000

[...] This is similar to the position NBC was in with The Jay Leno Show. Overall, The Jay Leno Show was considered a success by NBC because the low production costs and money saved from not running scripted programming at 10pm meant that they were making a profit – even if the ratings were low. [...]

By: NY Times – NBC Tells Conan To Move Over For Leno « The Studio Gates

NY Times – NBC Tells Conan To Move Over For Leno « The Studio Gates — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:33:10 +0000

[...] appears that The Jay Leno Show’s ratings having been so mediocre that NBC is going to shorten the show to 30min and move Leno back to his previous 11:30PM time [...]

By: Conan Says “No Way” to Tonight Show Time Change - Screen Rant

Conan Says “No Way” to Tonight Show Time Change - Screen Rant — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:18:37 +0000

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By: Battle Of The Funny: Jay Leno vs. Conan O’Brien [POLL] : College Candy

Battle Of The Funny: Jay Leno vs. Conan O’Brien [POLL] : College Candy — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:00:33 +0000

[...] the deal: Leno’s new gig at 10 p.m. isn’t working out so well. Shocking? Not so much. NBC moved him to this slot over the summer hoping he’d be cheaper [...]

By: NY Times – NBC Tells Conan To Move Over For Leno « MovieDriver – Hollywood Teamster

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:21:55 +0000

[...] appears that The Jay Leno Show’s ratings having been so mediocre that NBC is going to shorten the show to 30min and move Leno back to his previous 11:30PM time [...]

By: NBC Tells Conan To Move Over For Leno - Screen Rant

NBC Tells Conan To Move Over For Leno - Screen Rant — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:04:59 +0000

[...] appears that The Jay Leno Show’s ratings having been so mediocre that NBC is going to shorten the show to 30min and move Leno back to his previous 11:30PM time [...]

By: wharcraff

wharcraff — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:28:22 +0000

I say let ‘em eat cake. hmm that doesn’t seem appropriate.
Does it really matter what this network puts on during that time. Not like the 8 and 9 pm shows are all that popular. If they want the equivalent of a talk show during the 10pm slot for all eternity let ‘em. Less grief for me deciding what to watch on the weekdays.

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:33:51 +0000

Esquincher: Yep, reality and reality-like TV is cheap to produce and gives the studios a bigger return on the investment! Sadly speaking.

Jim Wagoner: I hear ya. I just never saw Conan as a viable option. If I recall correctly, Conan ratings (When he took over Jay’s slot) took quite the nose dive.

Joshi: GP. (good point)

I hated now NBC strong armed all the networks across the country to pump the show up… and for what? Nada.

By: roger

roger — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:15:47 +0000

well, i made money betting with the chicken…

By: Robyn2

Robyn2 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:42:40 +0000

The new Leno show is a mess, “Jay walking” is funny (the best segment)and “10 for 10″ is a disaster.
I watch “Castle” monday nights (reminds me of the 80s show “Moonlighting” with Cybil Shepard and Bruce Willis – great chemistry!) and other nights whatever else.
And Letterman is my man.

By: philip sell

philip sell — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:58:57 +0000

Arsenio Hall really is not an asset to your show
Thanks

By: Andy S

Andy S — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:08:12 +0000

MMMMmmm…steak…….

By: pamela

pamela — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:45:14 +0000

How could Jay stoop so low as to bring on an elephant, among the other ‘wild’ animals to his show? That elephant belongs in a sanctuary, NOT eating fruit from Jay’s hands. Shame and more shame. Animals are not ours for eating, experimenting or for our entertainment. One less viewer for the Jay Leno show.

By: Andy S

Andy S — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:53:05 +0000

AMEN JOSHI!

I like Jay, and his Jaywalking skits can sometimes be extremely funny. I have only watched one episode and not even in it’s entirety. It’s just not that good. I like my scripted drama/comedy/action shows, though, and I hope that Jay’s show is an aberration and networks still see there is a market for well-WRITTEN television shows.

Oh, and Craig Ferguson is better than Jay, Conan, Dave and Fallon. Gotta love the puppets!!

By: Joshi

Joshi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:45:35 +0000

The fact that it’s doing badly is a very good thing. This whole “experiment” was done to see just how successful un-scripted television could be. Had this been really successful, we’d have been saying goodbye to a whole load of well scripted shows because hey, the cheaper unscripted stuff does just as well if not better!

Leno failing hard means more money can be spent on scripted shows, which is what we need more of on TV right now.

By: piratedan

piratedan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:30:01 +0000

well all I know is that I watch Castle and it kicks ass!

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:07:50 +0000

@Jim Wagoner

“They want Jay to fail, go away, and fade away never to be seen or heard from again.”

I don’t know if it is anything as dramatic as that, but I agree that this 9:00 Show is NBC throwing a bone to Leno. At best, they hoped that Leno would be carve out a nice sized piece of the pie, but they really just didn’t want to lose him to another network.

And they REALLY didn’t want to lose Conan, who flat out said he was going to leave NBC if he didn’t get the Tonight Show. So they did the only thing they could do. Keep Leno in the NBC fold so he didn’t become a competitor in the same time slot against Conan’s new Tonight Show.

By: Jim Wagoner

Jim Wagoner — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:06:33 +0000

I will start off by saying that Jay was great on the Tonight Show. He should never have been replaced by Conan, who is not quite ready for prime time, not to say that he is not bad. Someone thought that Jay would just fade away, but he got better he went along, so NBC got worried about losing him to another network. They hope that this show would work(sort of, but not really), they set Jay up for failure big time. Sure NBC is spending money, not not that much. They want Jay to fail, go away, and fade away never to be seen or heard from again. This is a way to shame him away, so in a few years people will say “who was Jay Leno?”. This is their revenge for daring to succeed in spite of of their effort to make him fail.