TV ratings: ‘Bachelor’ finale wins Monday, ‘Law & Order’ helps NBC at 10

Fast National ratings for Monday, March 1, 2010
“The Bachelor” capped off its most-watched season since 2003 with a finale that gave ABC a ratings win Monday night. At NBC, “Law & Order” didn’t post big ratings, but its debut in the 10 o’clock hour improved considerably on “The Jay Leno Show’s” performance there.

ABC averaged [...]

‘Jay Leno,’ ‘TBL’ win worst-of-TV Bennie Awards

“The Beautiful Life,” formerly just a footnote to the 2009-10 TV season, is now a bona fide award winner.

OK, so the award is for 2009’s worst TV, but still. “TBL” and “The Jay Leno Show” were big winners in the inaugural Bennie Awards, a competition that aims to do for television what the Razzies do [...]

Jay Leno: Letterman ‘found me on Facebook’

Jay Leno says that despite any lingering bad blood between himself and his soon-to-be (again) late-night rival David Letterman, “a good joke is a good joke.”
And that, in a nutshell, is why he agreed to tape the now-famous Super Bowl promo for “The Late Show” with Letterman and Oprah Winfrey.
“Letterman and I hadn’t seen each [...]

Jimmy Kimmel on Jay Leno on ‘Oprah’: ‘He’s a tattle tale.’

Jimmy Kimmel fires back at Jay Leno after Leno’s appearance on “Oprah.”
On Thursday (Jan. 28), Jay Leno told Oprah Winfrey that Jimmy Kimmel’s impersonation of him and subsequent jokes in the 10 @ 10 segment on “The Jay Leno Show” were “a sucker punch.”
Jimmy Kimmel took to his opening monologue to respond, starting with, “Excuse [...]

Jay Leno leaves primetime a little early

The end of “The Jay Leno Show” will come a little sooner than originally planned.
NBC has issued some updates to its schedule that push Leno out of primetime two days earlier than the network had earlier stated. Rather than having his last prime-time show on Thursday, Feb. 11, Leno will now exit the 10 o’clock [...]

Jay Leno returns to ‘The Tonight Show’ March 1

Meet the new host, same as the old host: On the heels of NBC’s official announcement that Conan O’Brien is leaving “The Tonight Show” came another press release that Jay Leno would return to late-night.
Leno will go back to “The Tonight Show” starting March 1, following the Winter Olympics. NBC hasn’t said yet what will [...]

Conan O’Brien leaves NBC for $45 million deal

NBC’s late-nightmare is over. The network announced Thursday (Jan. 21) that Conan O’Brien will leave “The Tonight Show” and NBC.
O’Brien is expected to tape his last “Tonight” on Friday (Jan. 22).
NBC and O’Brien agreed to a $45 million deal wherein Conan receives $33 million under the condition that he not return to television for eight [...]

Jay Leno: ‘Don’t blame Conan O’Brien’

NBC still hasn’t officially said anything about the resolution to its late-night situation, but the man who’s in all likelihood headed back to “The Tonight Show” has decided to speak up.
On “The Jay Leno Show” Monday night (Jan. 18), Leno went beyond cracking jokes about the network’s late-night mess — though he did some of [...]

Late-night wars: Thursday’s best Jay-vs.-Conan jokes

The NBC late-night fracas was the comedy gift that kept on giving Thursday.
The best moment to come out of the various talk shows Thursday night (Jan. 14) was probably Jimmy Kimmel’s “10 @ 10″ segment on “The Jay Leno Show,” but the monologue jokes also flew back and forth. Some highlights:
“The Jay Leno Show” [...]

Jimmy Kimmel on ‘Jay Leno’: Fears? ‘I fear the network will move my show to 10 o’clock’

Jimmy Kimmel really took Jay Leno to task on Thursday’s 10 @ 10 segment on “The Jay Leno Show.”
After confessing that at night he only watches “Oprah,” Jimmy Kimmel finds any way he can to take a jab at Jay Leno and the NBC late night mess.
Regarding his Leno impression: “I hate to give [...]

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