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Looks like it's going to be interesting.
There hasn't been a repeated talk show on network prime time since the late '60s-early '70s when Dick Cavett was on three nights a week on ABC, on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday if memory serves. Groucho Marx -- a friend of Cavett's -- said he needed a secretary to remind him what days Cavett was on.
There are going to be serious changes at NBC. Conan O'Brien will be moving to L.A., into a new studio that was being built on the Universal lot last time I looked. When he goes to 11:35, he will have to revise his show and adapt to L.A. I think transplanting him to L.A. is a mistake but who the hell knows.
Leno, apparently, wants to stay in his old studio at NBC in Burbank -- which the rest of NBC is vacating for new facilities at Universal. Although the building(s) will remain a TV studio, probably owned and rented out by NBC-Universal.
The real crisis, if you ask me, will hit at 11:00 when all the major network affiliates go to news, scattering viewers all over the dial and making the late-night shows earn their viewers back. I think NBC ought to move their affiliate news to 10 and start the Leno/Conan/Jimmy Fallon line-up at 10:30/10:35 and let everybody else sweat it.
--t
who still carries his NBC gate pass from the '80s in his wallet
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