Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon Dec 8, 2008 at 5:19 PM Pacific

Ugh

Bleh:

NBC Expected to Give 10 P.M. Show to Leno

NBC is expected to announce Tuesday that it has signed its late-night star Jay Leno to a new contract that will keep him at the network in a new format that will give him the 10 p.m. time period each weeknight for a show similar to the one he has done on NBC's "Tonight Show" show since 1993.

...The offer of a new weeknight show for Mr. Leno at 10 p.m., an idea that NBC executives said Monday came from the NBC chief executive, Jeff Zucker, not only allows NBC to retain Mr. Leno's services, but also means the network may be able to greatly reduce costs of developing and producing other prime-time shows.

Ugh

Bleh:

NBC Expected to Give 10 P.M. Show to Leno

NBC is expected to announce Tuesday that it has signed its late-night star Jay Leno to a new contract that will keep him at the network in a new format that will give him the 10 p.m. time period each weeknight for a show similar to the one he has done on NBC's "Tonight Show" show since 1993.

...The offer of a new weeknight show for Mr. Leno at 10 p.m., an idea that NBC executives said Monday came from the NBC chief executive, Jeff Zucker, not only allows NBC to retain Mr. Leno's services, but also means the network may be able to greatly reduce costs of developing and producing other prime-time shows.

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