In a last minute addition Lindsay Lohan will be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno later on Tonight but the interview was pre-recorded yesterday and Radar Online reports that when she walked on set she received standing ovation from the crowd.
NBC are keeping most of the interview under wraps and only released the above clip from the interview but according to Radar Online she was asked “at what point did you realize, ‘Oh my God, I could lose this, this could slip away from me?’” He response was:
“I think that when, you know, being young and being in the position I was in, you don’t really take the time to appreciate what you have and it’s all kind of a whirlwind, and people make decisions for you, but I’m not a kid anymore — I’m 24, I’ve made a lot of mistakes and I recognize that. I’m in the clear now, and as long as I stay focused, I can achieve what I want to achieve.”
Yes you read read right she said she is “in the clear now,” obviously she is still living in the land of denial because she is still facing misdemeanor charges for robbing a necklace, was just sentenced to 120 hours of community service which involves working at a city morgue and she was released on $75,000 bail on Friday.
In the interview she also reportedly confirmed her role in the up coming Gotti movie which will also star John Travolta. You might also want to know that in order to fit Lindsay in for tonights show the producers bumpbed Kristin Chenoweth interview slot.
Spunky actress Ellen Page discussed her sleepwalking and “sleep hallucinations” last night with Jay Leno and happened to mention that she once found herself standing in a hotel hallway in her underwear. Of course Jay had to make an inappropriate comment, to which Ellen replied “I think I was about 11, Jay”.
The Inception star was visiting the Tonight Show to talk about her movie, not to be hit on by creepy old men. Did he ever watch Hard Candy? I’d leave that girl the hell alone.
Conan O’Brienannounced today that he will be kicking off his 30 city “Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television” tour on April 12th in Eugene, OR.
The show’s name comes from the clause in Conan’s exit contract that prohibits him from appearing on TV until September.
O’Brien will be joined on the road by his band and sidekick Andy Richter, plus about 40 people who worked for him on The Tonight Show.
Ticket prices start at $39.50 and can be purchased at TeamCoco.com.
Jeff Zucker talked to the NY Times about the NBC/Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno kerfuffle and came out with this response: “We Didn’t Have Time to Make Everyone Happy”. Nice one.
Couldn’t he have tried to make at least some of us happy? Instead, NBC has opted to kiss the chin butt of former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno.
In the interview, Zucker said that he has been receiving death threats over ditching O’Brien and called it merely a “business decision”.
Sure, it’s nothing personal after you and your staff have uprooted all of your families to move out here to tape a show. Nothing personal at all.
Zucker admitted that NBC had tried to find a compromise solution. But O’Brien didn’t seem interested, he said.
“Ultimately he couldn’t get his head around it,” Zucker said, according to a Twitter report from Broadcasting & Cable. “We didn’t have all the time and all the room to make everyone happy.”
Twitter reaction to Zucker’s interview indicated that Rose may have been unusually tough on Zucker, asking at one point whether his company was “in shambles.”
Zucker said, “We made a business decision here, and so we believe we’ve made the right business decision. We think that Jay, who was the ratings champ in late night for almost 15 years, will go back to 11:35 and be successful.”
Coco had it right with this little bit:
What do you think?
source: Zucker on Conan: ‘We Didn’t Have Time to Make Everyone Happy’ (video) – [the wrap]
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]
Have you seen Conan O’Brien hosting the Tonight Show on NBC? No? Don’t worry your not alone because the ratings have been beyond dire and NBC are taking notice.
In fact they are taking so much notice that they are considering just giving Conan his pink slip and replacing him with none other than their former king of comedy Jerry Seinfeld.
Seinfeld hasn’t worked with NBC since 1998, after he had a nine year run with them for his hit show, but he is the top man on their wish list of new presenters to take over the failing TV show.
A source said “”NBC just can’t carry on like this. ‘The Tonight Show’ has lost 52 percent of its viewership in just one year. The November ratings will be the show’s lowest in 15 years. They would be idiots to not be having the replacement conversation.”
I knew as soon as Jay Leno left the Tonight Show the whole night time TV would fall apart and it has, ratings all across the board are horrendous. I’m not saying Leno is the best thing but when a formula that has been working for years is changed people are going to either love it or hate it and everyone has decided on the latter.
What do you think?
source: Conan O’Brien Out, Jerry Seinfeld In? [Popeater]
NBC will keep Jay Leno five nights a week, but in prime time, competing not with David Letterman, but with shows like “CSI: Miami.†Huh?
The network will announce Tuesday that Mr. Leno’s new show will appear at 10 o’clock each weeknight in a format similar to “The Tonight Show,†which he has hosted since 1993.
Five years ago NBC announced that it would hand the job of host of that franchise show to Conan O’Brien in May 2009. Since then the network has maneuvered to try to keep Mr. Leno, who continues to be the late-night ratings leader, fearing that he could leave and start a new late-night show on a competitor’s network. “The Tonight Show†is seen at 11:35 weeknights.
Mr. Leno, 58, was known to have suitors, including ABC, the Fox network and the Sony television studio. But he was apparently persuaded to stay at NBC after aggressive personal wooing by Jeff Zucker, the chief executive of NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric.
Retaining Mr. Leno will undoubtedly be seen as a coup for Mr. Zucker, who has faced some serious questions about the wisdom of guaranteeing “The Tonight Show†to Mr. O’Brien and possibly losing Mr. Leno to another network.
Details of Mr. Leno’s agreement and the new show were provided by NBC executives who were briefed on the matter and who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the project until the network made its announcement.
The new show, which will begin next fall, is expected to be set in Mr. Leno’s longtime studio in Burbank, Calif. Mr. Leno is expected to retain many of the most popular elements of his “Tonight Show,†including his monologue and bits like “Headlines†and “Jay Walking.†One “Tonight Show†staff member said the new program would not be a variety show.
Mr. O’Brien, currently the host of NBC’s “Late Night,†will move “The Tonight Show†to a new studio on the NBC Universal lot in Universal City, Calif., in May. Mr. Leno, who is known to want to work as much as possible, would then miss only three months on the air, and would use that time to prepare his new show.
An executive involved in the discussions with Mr. Leno said that Mr. Leno finally came around to the idea that the television business had changed and a show like his could be a success in prime time.
Call me crazy, but a prime time (late night) talk show has “failure” written all over it. It’s just a fancy way of keeping your competition at bay.
