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  • ‘The Tonight Show’ gets new promo with new host

    ‘The Tonight Show’ gets new promo with new host

    MUMBAI: For almost 60 years, The Tonight Show has been a staple on NBC’s programming. But, now the iconic show will go through a dramatic shift.

     

    The dawn of an exciting new era is fast approaching as the promo rightly suggests. Jimmy Fallon will step into the shoes of Jay Leno in The Tonight Show in a little more than a month. NBC is certainly excited about “The New Era” since it just unveiled an exciting new promo that features a lot of throwbacks to old-school Tonight Show as if preparing everyone for what is sure to be a much funnier version of The Tonight Show than what we’re currently watching with Leno at its apex.

     

    Jimmy Fallon shifts to the glossy new Tonight Show studio on 17 February, with the show itself undergoing a major reinvention not just concerning the host. After decades spent in Los Angeles, the show will move to New York for the first time since 1972. NBC is reportedly spending millions on renovating Studio 6B, where Fallon hosted Late Night throughout his tenure, as they look to bring as much of Fallon’s internet-friendly humor to the late night chat show circuit as possible.

     

    Coincidentally, Studio 6B is also the place where Jack Paar hosted The Tonight Show throughout his entire run and where Johnny Carson spent the first ten years of his thirty year spell on the show, making him the only host with the longest stint as the host on The Tonight Show.

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  • Eddie Murphy to host 84th Oscar ceremony

    Eddie Murphy to host 84th Oscar ceremony

    MUMBAI: Eddie Murphy will host the 84th annual Oscar ceremony next year. The news was flashed by Academy producers Brett Ratner and Don Mischer.


    Ratner termed the 50-year-old entertainer “a comedic genius; one of the greatest and most influential live performers ever” while Mischer called Murphy “a truly groundbreaking performer” whose “quick wit and charisma will serve him very well as Oscar host.”
     
    This will be Murphy‘s first time hosting the Academy Awards. The actor said in a statement that he is “enormously honoured” to join the ranks of past Academy Awards hosts like Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, Billy Crystal, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg.


    Murphy was last nominated for an Oscar in 2006 for his supporting role in Dreamgirls.

  • Letterman extends CBS deal through 2010

    Letterman extends CBS deal through 2010

    MUMBAI: The Late-night television comedian David Letterman has extended his contract with the CBS network in a deal that will keep his Late Show on the network through the fall of 2010.

    Letterman hosted his original show, Late Night on NBC in the time slot immediately following The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and was long considered a likely successor to Carson.

    CBS Corp chief executive Les Moonves said, “We are truly honored that one of the most revered and talented entertainers of our time will continue to call CBS home.”

    Letterman, who began his network TV career on NBC, will celebrate 25 years in late-night comedy this coming February. Letterman came to CBS in 1993 after 11 years on NBC, asserts an official release.

    CBS shares rose 1.5 per cent to close at $30.20 on 4 December after the announcement, adds the release.