jay leno show

    By Aaron Crowe

    | 5:15PM 1/22/2010
    Conan O'Brien is out of a job now that his last gig on "The Tonight Show" has aired, but like many unemployed people, he'll probably find losing his job to be the best move of his career. The $32.5 million severance he's getting from NBC is enough to take care of him for life, but that's not the...

    By Jonathan Berr

    | 12:55PM 1/08/2010
    NBC executives appear ready to move Jay Leno back to late night TV. The Leno disaster, which will cost the network tens of millions of dollars, was avoidable, and will likely be discussed in business schools for decades to come.

    By Aimee Picchi

    | 6:00AM 11/25/2009
    What's hokey, full of hot air and increasingly looking like a Thanksgiving miracle for NBC? The network's 61-year old tradition of broadcasting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The three-hour broadcast remains as popular with viewers as it was in 1991 -- a feat that's remarkably rare among...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 1:00PM 9/25/2009
    A new network TV show that sees its ratings tumble after its debut usually meets with a swift and unforgiving fate. But don't expect that to be the case for The Jay Leno Show, NBC's prime time experiment with late-night comedy. Thanks to a $10 million promotional campaign, Leno premiered on Sept....

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 6:45PM 7/22/2009
    With less than two months to go before the launch of Jay Leno's new prime time show, NBC is ramping up the publicity push. Today, that means the debut of The Jay Leno Show's website, which offers a taste of the new program's flavor -- if something utterly bland can be said to have a flavor, that...