Last week in New York for my birthday, I treated myself a taping of Late Night with Conan O’Brien. I’ve had that privilege several times in the past and always found it the fastest hour you can spend in Manhattan. Plus, well, tickets are free. The show is taped in Studio 6A deep within that
The Hollywood Reporter has posted Jimmy Kimmel‘s best lines from the ABC upfront this week. Kimmel has hosted the Manhattan bash the past few years. Among his keepers from Tuesday’s event: “Here at ABC we’re very excited about both our new shows.” And: “NBC are calling it their ‘infront’ this year because they’re just in
NBC entertainment president Ben Silverman admits the peacock network will likely lose Jay Leno once he leaves The Tonight Show in 2009. “I think it’s a reach,” Silberman tells Bill Carter in today’s New York Times. Carter was reporting on yesterday’s official announcement in New York that Jimmy Fallon will be taking over from Conan
NBC–the network that had sworn off upfronts, pilots, fall seasons and all other broadcasting conventions, will host a scaled down upfront this Monday in New York. They’re calling it a presentation or something; there will be no party. CBS, Fox, ABC and The CW are also down playing their upfronts a little, most of them
Steve Allen may have invented late night, but by the time I spoke with him in 1992, at the age of 71, he rarely watched it anymore. This excerpt from that conversation was unearthed for a book on late night TV I am in the process of writing. If you missed Part One of my
Over the past few months, there have been plenty of shout outs here about my book, Truth and Rumors: The Reality Behind TV’s Most Famous Myths. It is available at Amazon and at Barnes & Noble, thanks for asking. My publisher, Greenwood Publishing in Connecticut, is anxious to see some copy for my next book,
Don’t forget, tonight at 11:35 it is the 1000th episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live (on City-TV and ABC). Kimmel’s girlfriend, Sarah Silverman, and her lover, Matt Damon, were nice enough to take this ad out in Variety just to congratulate him. No ad yet from Ben Affleck. Kimmel has really beat the odds lasting five
Nobody has a better handle on the late night scene than Bill Carter at The New York Times. The author of The Late Shift and, more recently, Desperate Networks, Carter’s connections with industry power players runs deep, even after he’s spilled the beans so many times in the past. I know from personal experience that