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The deal hasn't been completed but NBC has suggested that they will have The Jay Leno Show at 11:35 followed by The Tonight Show with Conan at 12:05, followed by The Late Show with Jimmy Fallon at 1:05. No word on the running time of Late Night or of the show that comes after Fallon.
Clearly they aren't willing to dump Leno... I've caught a few episodes of The Jay Leno Show (it airs the next day here on Universal) and it's quite awful.
The good news is that NBC will be returning to real programming right after the Olympics. I suspect that it will take them until next fall for their schedule to shake the weirdness of all of this... Five hours a week is a lot of prime time real estate to replace at one time.
So Leno didn't kill NBC, but it didn't do NBC any favours. (then again, there's still time).
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