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After just four months on the air, Leno’s primetime experiment has come to an end. The Jay Leno Show<\/em> is officially leaving its 10 PM time slot on February 12, NBC Universal Television Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin confirmed on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n NBC said on Sunday that it was abandoning its cost-cutting prime time experiment with talk show host Jay Leno, and “going back to basics.”<\/em> The NBC will drop its low-rated Leno next month, but sto keep both Leno and his Tonight Show<\/em> successor Conan O’Brien on its late-night roster.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI can confirm what many of you are reporting, starting February 12, \u2018The Jay Leno Show\u2019 will no longer air at 10 PM,\u201d <\/em>Gaspin told reporters at NBC\u2019s Television Critics Association session in Pasadena.<\/p>\n Gaspin confirmed the network wants to make Leno<\/em> shorter and air it at 11:35 PM, with The Tonight Show With Conan O\u2019Brien<\/em> at 12:05 AM and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon<\/em> at 1:05 AM. But the deal is not done.<\/p>\n \u201cAs much as I\u2019d like to tell you we have a done deal, that\u2019s not true. The talks are still ongoing,\u201d<\/em> he explained. \u201cMy goal right now is to keep Jay, Conan and Jimmy as part of our late-night lineup. As much as I\u2019d like to tell you we have a done deal, we know that\u2019s not true.”<\/em><\/p>\n Gaspin said the network had come under pressure from its local affiliates who complained audiences had dropped for their lucrative late news broadcasts because of the poor audiences for “The Jay Leno Show<\/p>\n He added, \u201cBoth Jay and Conan and Jimmy were incredibly gracious and professional and they all said they understood the situation that I was in. Beyond that was a private conversation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Gaspin told reporters that the talk show hosts \u201chave the weekend to think about\u201d<\/em> the proposed change before talks resume on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After just four months on the air, Leno’s primetime experiment has come to an end. The Jay Leno Show is officially leaving its 10 PM time slot on February 12, NBC Universal Television Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin confirmed on Sunday morning. NBC said on Sunday that it was abandoning its cost-cutting prime time experiment with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}