First end of Leno on The Tonight Show
It was announced on July 21, 2008, that Leno would host his final episode of The Tonight Show on Friday, May 29, 2009, with O'Brien and James Taylor as his guests.[11] O'Brien took over hosting duties commencing the following Monday, on June 1, 2009.
On December 9, 2008, it was announced Leno would be hosting a new nightly show in September 2009, which aired at 10 pm ET, during the network's prime time period. The Jay Leno Show ended after a short run on February 9, 2010.
June 1, 2009
Conan O'Brien debuted as the host of NBC's Tonight Show.
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show that featured Conan O'Brien as host from June 1, 2009 to January 22, 2010 as part of NBC's long-running Tonight Show franchise. The program's host, Conan O'Brien, previously hosted NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien, which followed The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for 16 years, until O'Brien's brief succession over Leno.
Many
members of the Late Night cast and crew made the transition
to The Tonight Show. The Max Weinberg 7, the house band from
O'Brien's Late Night, served as the house band under the new
name, Max Weinberg and The Tonight Show Band. Andy Richter returned to the show
as announcer, and also began resuming his role as sidekick, shortly before the
show's conclusion. The opening and closing theme song from Late Night was
also carried over toTonight, in a slightly altered form.
In
January 2010, after the show had been on the air for seven months, it was
announced that NBC was intending to move Jay
Leno from
primetime back to his original timeslot at 11:35 pm, with O'Brien's show
starting shortly after midnight. In response to the announcement, O'Brien
released a press statement saying that he would not continue as host of The
Tonight Show if it was moved to any time after midnight to
accommodate The Jay Leno Show. He feared it would ruin the long and rich tradition of The
Tonight Show, which had been on after the late local newscasts from the
beginning. After two weeks of negotiations, NBC announced that they had paid
$45 million to buy out[3] O'Brien's contract,
ending both his tenure as host as well as his relationship with NBC after 22
years.
Conan
O'Brien's final Tonight Show was broadcast on January 22,
2010, with Jay Leno officially resuming his role as host on March 1, 2010,
immediately following the conclusion of the 2010 Winter Olympics. To date, it is the shortest running version of The Tonight Show.
It later received four Primetime Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Variety, Music
or Comedy Series, the first time The Tonight Show has received a
nomination for this particular award since 2003.
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