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Law & Order : SVU’s Mariska Hargitay is blaming Jay Leno and NBC for the reason that SVU’s ratings have took a dip.
SVU has always received over 10 million viewers but the show, which is now in it’s 11th Season was moved from Tuesday nights at 10:00 pm to Wednesday night at 9:00 pm in September 2009, is now getting between 8 and 9 million each week.
Mariska is blaming NBC and The Jay Leno Show for this reason, she tells the new issue of More Magazine “It ruined our numbers,” she says bluntly. “The first four episodes, we were considerably down because nobody knew when the show was on. Finally, we’re starting to find our audience again.†Given Leno’s disappointing ratings, she hopes “we go back to where we belong. It was doing so well. Why mess with it?”
I wonder if NBC regret all the decisions they have made in the past year? I also wonder if they regret still having Heroes on the air. But Heroes is a whole different subject (seriously how is that crap still going?). Jay Leno should just go hide in a hole because the hate for him is not dying down.
source: The Sexiest Cop Alive [More Magazine]
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In a somewhat unexpected move, Conan O’Brien has told NBC that he will not agree to moving “The Tonight Show” to after midnight to get the network out of the hash they created by moving Jay Leno to prime time.
He issued a long statement explaining why:
In the last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to start by making it clear that no one should waste a second feeling sorry for me. For 17 years, I’ve been getting paid to do what I love most and, in a world with real problems, I’ve been absurdly lucky. That said, I’ve been suddenly put in a very public predicament and my bosses are demanding an immediate decision.Six years ago, I signed a contract with NBC to take over The Tonight Show in June of 2009. Like a lot of us, I grew up watching Johnny Carson every night and the chance to one day sit in that chair has meant everything to me. I worked long and hard to get that opportunity, passed up far more lucrative offers, and since 2004 I have spent literally hundreds of hours thinking of ways to extend the franchise long into the future. It was my mistaken belief that, like my predecessor, I would have the benefit of some time and, just as important, some degree of ratings support from the prime-time schedule. Building a lasting audience at 11:30 is impossible without both.
But sadly, we were never given that chance. After only seven months, with my Tonight Show in its infancy, NBC has decided to react to their terrible difficulties in prime-time by making a change in their long-established late night schedule.
Last Thursday, NBC executives told me they intended to move the Tonight Show to 12:05 to accommodate the Jay Leno Show at 11:35. For 60 years the Tonight Show has aired immediately following the late local news. I sincerely believe that delaying the Tonight Show into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting. The Tonight Show at 12:05 simply isn’t the Tonight Show. Also, if I accept this move I will be knocking the Late Night show, which I inherited from David Letterman and passed on to Jimmy Fallon, out of its long-held time slot. That would hurt the other NBC franchise that I love, and it would be unfair to Jimmy.
So it has come to this: I cannot express in words how much I enjoy hosting this program and what an enormous personal disappointment it is for me to consider losing it. My staff and I have worked unbelievably hard and we are very proud of our contribution to the legacy of The Tonight Show. But I cannot participate in what I honestly believe is its destruction. Some people will make the argument that with DVRs and the Internet a time slot doesn’t matter. But with the Tonight Show, I believe nothing could matter more.
There has been speculation about my going to another network but, to set the record straight, I currently have no other offer and honestly have no idea what happens next. My hope is that NBC and I can resolve this quickly so that my staff, crew, and I can do a show we can be proud of, for a company that values our work.
While I’ve got no dog in this fight — I’ve seldom seen O’Brien’s show (old or new), haven’t watched Leno’s new show, and won’t watch “Tonight” regardless of who’s hosting it or when it’s aired — I’ve come around to O’Brien’s way of thinking.
NBC made a bad choice six years ago when it kicked the can down the road and set Leno’s premature retirement into motion. It compounded that error by putting Leno up against the other network’s prime time dramas, not only screwing the network’s affiliates but also seriously hampering O’Brien’s chances to succeed in the franchise he waited so long to inherit. One can certainly understand, then, O’Brien’s not wanting to be relegated back to the midnight slot and screw over Fallon in the process.
One presumes, then, that NBC will figure some way to buy him out of his contract and that O’Brien will do what David Letterman did in a similar situation years ago: Move to another network and compete against “Tonight.” Fox has already issued a statement saying they’d love to have him.
In the meantime, Leno, O’Brien, and Letterman are all taking their shots at NBC in their monologues.
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Apparently, if Jay Leno were a sinking ship, then NBC would be the captain going down with him. The network tried movie the chinned one to the 10PM time slot, but it wasn’t working out.
Once vacated, the 11:30PM time slot was given to Conan O’Brien. Now that NBC is catering to Jay and moving him back to his original time slot, where does that leave Conan and his huge following?
Hopefully, if they’re smart, they’ll give the boot to Jimmy Fallon give his slot to Conan. Let’s hope that after they announced their decision, that they’re listening to the public and have no plans to oust Conan. His fans will follow him and Jay’s show will be left to go down with the ship.
What are your thoughts?
Update: After NBC has given Leno back his time slot, that leaves Conan out in the cold a bit. Sources say that if Conan doesn’t want to go on the air for a half hour, that he could make NBC pay out his contract, worth $80 million, and then relax on the beach some.
Either that, or he could take the time slot and not give Leno any competition and keep his NBC job. The third option would be to go to FOX and get paid $15 million a year, with NBC forking over another $5 million per year to makeup for his lost wages.
source: NBC Shakeup — Jay Leno Comes Out on Top – [tmz]
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We’ve scoured the internet for the top ten celebrity quotes for the week and we’ve got some goodies for you. We’ve got President Obama, Craig Ferguson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and more!
“Oh, he’s my least favorite.”
– Boston Red Sox fan Jennifer Garner, after being asked to kiss a picture of Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, on “The Jay Leno Show”
“I’m very peeved Halloween only comes once a year.”
– Drew Barrymore, wishing she could go out in public more often without being recognized, to “InStyle”
“I think it’s important to realize that I was black before the election.”
– President Barack Obama, finding humor in the suggestion that he’s facing criticism because of his race, on “The Late Show with David Letterman”
“I’m unemployed now, and I’d like to be on Mad Men. I also like The Office and 24.”
– A sobbing Kristin Chenoweth, accepting an Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy series for her canceled show, “Pushing Daisies”
“If you’re going to go, isn’t that a great way to go – with a hot guy sucking on your neck?”
– Jennifer Love Hewitt, explaining her obsession with “Twilight” hottie Rob Pattinson, on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”
“We had choose Jewish or Mormon in our family, so obviously I was like, ‘I’ll take the dradle.’”
– Chelsea Handler, explaining her family dynamics on her talk show
“I really am in love with my hose.”
– Regis Philbin, on the breathing apparatus he uses to help his sleep apnea, on “Live! With Regis and Kelly”
“I’d trade this to look like him.”
– Alec Baldwin, accepting his best actor in a comedy series Emmy Award from the Rob Lowe
“It’s kinda our version of The Jay Leno Show, really – but we give more skin, less chin.”
– Craig Ferguson, on CBS’s various CSI spin-offs, on his late night show
“We’re going after Sesame Street, so watch out.”
– The Office’s Jenna Fischer, on what her onscreen pregnancy will mean for the competition, to “EW”
source: 10 Best Celeb Quotes This Week – [people]
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