American talk show hosted by Jay Leno (1992?2009 and 2010?2014)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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Presented by
| Jay Leno
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| United States
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Original language
| English
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No.
of seasons
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No.
of episodes
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list of episodes
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Running time
| 62 minutes
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| NBC
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Release
| May 25, 1992
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1992-05-25
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May 29, 2009
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2009-05-29
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| March 1, 2010
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2010-03-01
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February 6, 2014
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2014-02-06
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The Jay Leno Show
You Bet Your Life (2021 revival)
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
is an American
late-night talk show
hosted by
Jay Leno
that first aired from May 25, 1992, to May 29, 2009. It resumed production on March 1, 2010, and ended on February 6, 2014.
The fourth incarnation of the
Tonight Show
franchise debuted on May 25, 1992, three days after
Johnny Carson
's retirement as
host of the program
. The program originated from
NBC Studios
in
Burbank, California
, and was broadcast Monday through Friday at 11:35
p.m. in the
Eastern
and
Pacific
time zones (10:35
p.m.
Central
/
Mountain
time). Unlike Carson or his predecessor
Jack Paar
, Leno only once used a guest host, preferring to host the series in person.
The series, which followed the same basic format as that of its predecessors (an opening monologue followed by comedy routines, interviews and performances), ran until May 29, 2009, after which Leno was succeeded by
Conan O'Brien
.
[3]
NBC signed Leno to a new deal for a nightly talk show in the 10:00 pm ET timeslot. The primetime series, titled
The Jay Leno Show
, debuted on September 14, 2009,
[4]
following a similar format to the Leno incarnation of
Tonight
.
[5]
[6]
[7]
Neither
O'Brien's version of the program
, which premiered June 1, 2009 nor
The Jay Leno Show
generated the ratings NBC had expected. The network decided to move a condensed 30-minute version of Leno's show to O'Brien's time slot, and O'Brien's
Tonight Show
a half-hour later. This decision met with opposition from O'Brien, whose stint on
The Tonight Show
ended January 22, 2010, after which he began his own talk show,
Conan
, on
TBS
.
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
then began its second incarnation, the sixth of the franchise, on March 1, 2010. Leno left
The Tonight Show
for good on February 6, 2014, and on February 17, was succeeded by
Late Night
host
Jimmy Fallon
, at which time the series returned to New York for the first time since 1972.
History
[
edit
]
Succession from Carson
[
edit
]
Johnny Carson retired from
The Tonight Show
on May 22, 1992, and was replaced by
Jay Leno
.
David Letterman
wanted to move into the earlier time slot from his late night spot after
The Tonight Show
, and he was also considered by many as the natural successor (despite Leno having been Carson's permanent guest host for several years). Carson always favored Letterman; notably, Carson, who had been interviewed by Letterman, made two appearances on Letterman's rival CBS show, made no mention of Leno during his final shows and regularly sent Letterman monologue jokes in his final years.
[8]
With his heart set on the earlier time slot, Letterman left NBC in June 1993 and joined CBS that August.
The
Late Show with David Letterman
, airing in the same slot, competed against
The Tonight Show
for the remainder of Leno's run. Leno would outdo Letterman in ratings for the majority of the show's run.
Conan O'Brien
slid into the late night time slot vacated by Letterman in September 1993.
First end of Leno on
Tonight
[
edit
]
On September 27, 2004, the 50th anniversary of
The Tonight Show
'
s debut, NBC announced Leno would be succeeded by O'Brien, in 2009. Leno explained he did not want to see a repeat of the hard feelings and controversy that occurred when he was given the show over Letterman following Carson's retirement.
[9]
[10]
It was announced on July 21, 2008, that Leno would host his final episode of
The Tonight Show
on Friday, May 29, 2009, with O'Brien and
James Taylor
as his guests.
[11]
O'Brien took over hosting duties commencing the following Monday, on June 1, 2009.
On December 9, 2008, it was announced Leno would be hosting
a new nightly show
in September 2009, which aired at 10 pm ET, during the network's prime time period.
The Jay Leno Show
ended after a short run on February 9, 2010.
[5]
Second incarnation
[
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]
On January 7, 2010, multiple media outlets reported that effective March 1, 2010,
The Jay Leno Show
would move from the 10 pm (
Eastern
/
Pacific
Time) weeknight time slot to 11:35 pm and O'Brien's
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
would move from 11:35 pm to 12:05 am.
[12]
[13]
[14]
On January 12, 2010, O'Brien publicly announced in an open letter that he intended to leave NBC if they moved
The Tonight Show
to 12:05 am ET/PT to accommodate moving
The Jay Leno Show
to 11:35 pm Eastern/10:35 pm Central, due to poor ratings.
[15]
After several days of negotiations, O'Brien reached a settlement with NBC that allowed him to leave NBC and
The Tonight Show
on January 22, 2010.
[16]
On January 21, 2010,
NBC
announced Leno would return to
The Tonight Show
. Jay Leno began his second tenure on March 1, 2010, after the
2010 Winter Olympics
.
[17]
The show moved to Stage 11 in Burbank,
[18]
the former home of
The Jay Leno Show
, with a similar set and theme song of
The Jay Leno Show
.
The Tonight Show
bandleader
Kevin Eubanks
announced on April 12 he would be leaving
The Tonight Show
on May 28 after 18 years with Leno.
[19]
Eubanks' replacement was former
American Idol
musical director
Rickey Minor
.
[20]
Minor composed a new main theme when he took over.
On July 1, 2010,
Variety
reported that only six months into its second life, Leno's
Tonight Show
posted its lowest ratings since 1992.
[21]
By September 2010, Leno's ratings in the adults 18-49 demographic had fallen below those of O'Brien when he had hosted
The Tonight Show
.
[22]
NBC ratings specialist Tom Bierbaum commented that due to the host being out of late night television for a period of time and the subsequent
2010
Tonight Show
conflict
, Leno's ratings fall was "not a surprise at all".
[23]
In October 2010,
David Letterman
beat Leno's program in the ratings, for the first time since Leno returned to hosting
The Tonight Show
.
[24]
[25]
By May 2011, Leno's
Tonight Show
regained the lead and held it since then. However, by August 2012, the
Los Angeles Times
was reporting that
The Tonight Show
was in serious trouble for a number of reasons, most notably that NBC was losing money. While Leno offered to take a pay cut, at least 24 members of his staff were laid off.
[26]
By March 2013, there were rumors that NBC would have
Jimmy Fallon
, who had been hosting
Late Night
since 2009 when he succeeded O'Brien, become the next host of
The Tonight Show
when Leno's current contract ended in 2014 and NBC would move the show back to New York for the first time in over 40 years.
[27]
On May 13, 2013, during its fall "upfronts" presentation, NBC confirmed Fallon would take over as host of the
Tonight Show
beginning on February 17, 2014;
Seth Meyers
, in turn, would leave
Saturday Night Live
(where he was the anchor of
Weekend Update
) and take over Fallon's time slot.
[28]
Leno's final episode of
The Tonight Show
aired on February 6, 2014. Per the terms on his deal with NBC, his staff was paid through September 2014. Leno wrapped up the night before the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, which began on February 7. Fallon took over
The Tonight Show
on February 17.
[29]
Leno himself would later appear multiple times on Jimmy Fallon's version of
The Tonight Show
, such as a June 15, 2016 appearance in which Leno not only appeared as a guest, he delivered part of that night's monologue, commenting on the 2016 US election campaign.
[30]
(Leno came out to do the monologue after Fallon faked an injury.)
Production
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From 1992 to 2009, the show was taped at
NBC Studios
' (now The Burbank Studios) Studio 1 and 3, and from 2009 to 2014 in Studio 11.
On April 26, 1999, the show began broadcasting in digital
HDTV
1080i
, becoming the first American nightly talk show to be shot in high definition. The show was recorded in
two channel stereo
sound and shot with ten
Sony
HD cameras including four
Sony HDC-700A
, three Sony HDC-750A, and three Sony DXC-H10
point of view
cameras in
16:9
aspect ratio
in the year 2000. The show was directly fed to
network affiliates
through
SBS-4
satellite and NTSC feed was sent to New York via
AT&T fiber
and was uplinked by New York to its affiliates.
[31]
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[33]
Finances
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During the last year with Leno as host,
The Tonight Show
cost about $1.7 million a week to produce.
[34]
With 45 weeks of annual production, that amounted to about $76.5 million, excluding the salaries for Leno and the show's "top producers".
[34]
In that same period, the show had been generating an estimated $30?$40 million a year in profit, down from the $150 million a year the franchise once made."
[34]
Format
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The show follows an established six-piece format. After
the announcer
announces the opening credits for the show, the first segment is a ten-minute
monologue
by Leno, with jokes about current events and brief comedy sketches occasionally mixed in. The second segment is a full comedy sketch, such as a mini-documentary by a "
Tonight Show
correspondent" (e.g.,
Ross the Intern
or
Mikey Day
), or a trademark of Leno's, such as
Headlines
.
The first guest appears, with the interview is divided into two segments, then followed by an interview with the second guest in the fifth segment. The sixth and final segment is typically a performance by a musical guest or stand-up comedian.
Immediately following the last performance segment, Leno walks on camera to thank the performers, bid farewell to the audience and recommends watching
Late Night
which immediately follows
The Tonight Show
. As the closing credits roll on-screen, the closing theme, composed by bandleader
Rickey Minor
plays the show off the air.
Bandleader
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]
Branford Marsalis
was the original bandleader of the show from 1992 to 1995, leaving the show after feeling displeased with his role on the show, what he called being an "ass-kisser".
[35]
Kevin Eubanks
, who was the guitarist in Marsalis' band, moved up to bandleader forming
Kevin Eubanks and The Tonight Show Band
and remained with
The Tonight Show
and
The Jay Leno Show
until 2010, when he left to concentrate on music, adding that his leaving was not provoked by any problems with Leno or NBC.
[36]
Eubanks would later reunite with Leno as co-host of Leno's version of
You Bet Your Life
.
Rickey Minor
, former
American Idol
music director, replaced Eubanks, forming
Rickey Minor and The Tonight Show Band
, staying until the end of Leno's tenure.
Announcer
[
edit
]
Edd Hall
served as announcer on
The Tonight Show
from 1992 until 2004. Hall occasionally appeared in skits during the opening monologue. These skits often involved slapstick injury to Hall (by using a stunt double, dummy, or film clip), such as vehicles running him over in the studio parking lot. Unlike his predecessors on
Tonight
(i.e. McMahon with Carson,
Hugh Downs
with Jack Paar), Hall did not serve as a sidekick for Leno during his tenure on Leno's incarnation of
The Tonight Show
.
Hall was controversially replaced in 2004 by
The Howard Stern Show
staff member
John Melendez
in what many perceived as a thinly veiled attempt to attract a younger demographic and nonsensical considering his "stuttering" moniker. The hiring of Melendez which was carried out by Leno without Stern's knowledge, prompted a rift between Stern and Leno. Stern launched into tirades on his show for many weeks on saying Leno was "ripping him off", citing previously "lifted" material from his show such as "Jaywalking" ripping off Stern's "homeless game"; for example, stating "To an 18- to 25-year-old male, Jay Leno is gay. He might as well put a dress on."
[37]
Since the move to
The Jay Leno Show
, Melendez was replaced as announcer, but remained on the writing staff.
[38]
Wally Wingert
would be the only off-camera announcer for Leno's second
Tonight
tenure, carrying over his duties from
The Jay Leno Show
.
Recurring segments
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Notable episodes
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- On May 25, 1992,
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
debuted on NBC. Jay's guests on his first show as permanent host were
Billy Crystal
,
Shanice
, and
Robert Krulwich
.
- On May 20, 1993,
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
traveled to the
Bull & Finch Pub
in
Boston, Massachusetts
, to celebrate the final episode of
Cheers
. This is the first time that
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
is taped on the road.
- On May 9, 1994,
Bobcat Goldthwait
appeared on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
, where he set the guest chair on fire. Leno throws a cup of
coffee
, and tells Bobcat to sit down.
- On August 22, 1994, Leno eulogized his father, who had recently died. After his monologue, Leno sat behind his desk and told the audience about his father's life and how his father had supported him in his career. Leno noted a moment when, upon Carson's disapproval at Leno being his successor, his father had encouraged him and told him to "fight the good fight". Leno ended the tribute saying, "You know, it really is lonely at the top. You have no idea. But... we'll fight the good fight, Pop."
[39]
[40]
- On July 10, 1995,
Hugh Grant
appeared in public for the first time after his arrest on lewd conduct charges the previous month. Leno famously asked him "What the hell were you thinking?" In response, Grant told Leno, "I think you know in life what's a good thing to do and what's a bad thing, and I did a bad thing...and there you have it." The appearance was the first episode in which Leno beat CBS rival David Letterman.
[41]
- On November 30, 1995,
Howard Stern
, who had made two highly rated appearances in 1992 and 1993, appeared with bikini-clad porn stars
Nikki Tyler
and
Janine Lindemulder
, attempting to show "the Tonight Show's first lesbian kiss" and encouraging Leno to spank one of them. Stern and the women remained during
Siskel
and
Ebert
's segment, where he began to suck one of their toes, to raucous applause and behavior from the crowd. Leno was visibly uncomfortable during both segments, repeatedly telling Stern "it will all be edited out", and hastily trying to interview Siskel & Ebert while the crowd went wild at Stern's antics. Leno ended the show early by walking off the air, which was edited out when it aired a few hours later, as revealed by Stern when he went on the air (on the
Howard Stern Show
) the following morning.
[42]
Despite the situation, Leno called into the show that morning claiming Stern had "gone beyond the acceptable standards". Stern said Leno should not have "been so uptight" and he had a "real" reaction to the situation which was great. Stern recounted Leno had yelled at his producer
Gary Dell'Abate
saying Stern had "'s-d' in his house" and supposedly "grabbed his crotch" and yelled "Pussy, Pussy, Pussy! That's all it is with Howard" which Leno denied but agreed he had been angered by Stern.
[43]
- On March 13, 2000, New York Giants cornerback
Jason Sehorn
came onstage during Leno's interview with his girlfriend,
Law & Order
star
Angie Harmon
, surprising her by proposing in front of Jay, the audience, and musical guest
Elton John
. Harmon tearfully said yes, and Elton performed after the break. One night later in the monologue, Leno cracked up the audience by saying the episode was like every date he had in college:
"The pretty girl ran off with the football player, and I was left alone listening to Elton John!"
- In September 2000, with California in an energy crisis that forced blackouts, Leno did an episode in the dark using only candles and flashlights known as "The Tonight Show Unplugged".
- Following the
September 11 attacks
,
The Tonight Show
was off the air for about a week, as were most similar programs. The first post-9/11 episode began with a still image of an American flag and a subdued opening without the usual opening credits. Leno's monologue paid tribute to those who lost their lives and to firefighters, police and rescue workers across the US. Leno had questioned whether a show that regularly poked fun at the government could continue after the attacks, but in his monologue he explained that he also saw the show as a respite from the grim news of the world, akin to a cookie or glass of lemonade handed to a firefighter. He also told a story about himself as a 12-year-old Boy Scout, which Leno said he was not a very good at because of his dyslexia. His scoutmaster gave him the task of being the "cheermaster" of the troop, in which Leno told jokes to the troop to keep their spirits up.
[44]
Senator John McCain and the musical group
Crosby, Stills, and Nash
were featured guests. Leno also organized an auction for a
Harley-Davidson
motorcycle signed by celebrities (he signed his name on-stage), with the proceeds going to 9/11 support organizations. For an extended period after the attack, a short clip of a large American flag waving was shown in between the announcement of the musical guest and Leno's introduction during the opening montage.
- On May 12, 2003,
Katie Couric
hosted
The Tonight Show
for a day. Couric's guests on that night's show were
Mike Myers
,
Simon Cowell
, and
Robbie Williams
.
- On August 6, 2003, actor
Arnold Schwarzenegger
appeared on
The Tonight Show
and confirmed he would be running against California governor
Gray Davis
for the
2003 California gubernatorial recall election
. Schwarzenegger won the election on October 7.
- On January 24, 2005, Leno had a special episode that paid tribute to
Tonight Show
predecessor Johnny Carson, who had died the day before. During the opening credits, the guests of that show were simply announced using pictures from when they were on Carson's
Tonight Show
, and the monologue simply gave condolence to Carson. There were no segments used; however, Leno played clips from
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
before commercials. All the guests were people who had worked with Carson, and had been on his show, including Ed McMahon, Drew Carey,
Don Rickles
, and Bob Newhart.
[45]
- On July 20, 2006, as
Colin Farrell
was being interviewed by Leno, Farrell's
stalker
, Dessarae Bradford, evaded security, walked on stage as cameras were rolling, confronted Farrell, and threw her book on Leno's desk. In front of a silent, stunned audience, Farrell escorted her off the stage himself, told the camera crew to stop filming, and handed her over to security. As Bradford was led out of the studio, she shouted "I'll see you in court!" Farrell's response was simply, "Darling, you're insane!" Outside the studio,
NBC
security handed her to
Burbank
police, who eventually released her. While waiting to begin filming again, a shocked Leno sarcastically called for "a round of applause for NBC security" from the audience. After Farrell apologized to the audience, describing Bradford as "my first stalker", the show then continued filming and the incident was edited out of the broadcast aired that night.
[46]
Farrell later requested a restraining order in court against Bradford.
[47]
- On July 24, 2007, the monologue was animated by
Homer Simpson
. Simpson gave a short monologue to the audience, and was "kicked out" by Leno. This sketch was to promote
The Simpsons Movie
.
- On January 2, 2008,
The Tonight Show
(along with
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
and
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
) returned to air without writers, with the WGA still on strike. This was in response to the deal by
David Letterman
's production company
Worldwide Pants
and
CBS Paramount Television
with the WGA to allow
Late Show with David Letterman
and
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
to return with writers.
[
citation needed
]
Leno's guest that night, Republican presidential candidate
Mike Huckabee
, was criticized for crossing the WGA
picket line
to appear on the show.
[48]
Huckabee would go on to win the
Iowa caucuses
the very next day.
[49]
- On June 13, 2008, Leno delivered the news of
Tim Russert
's death to his audience during his monologue, and set aside some time in it to remember his old colleague. Leno then stated that he would continue the show as normal afterwards.
- On March 19, 2009,
Barack Obama
appeared on the show. This marked the first time that a sitting President of the United States appeared on a late night talk show. President Obama came under fire for a remark made about the
Special Olympics
, which he made in reference to Leno's congratulations to Obama's low bowling score.
[50]
- On March 1, 2010, Leno made his return to
The Tonight Show
with a re-written version of
The Jay Leno Show
theme song and a renovated Stage 11. Leno's guests were
Jamie Foxx
, Olympic Gold medalist
Lindsey Vonn
, and musical guest
Brad Paisley
. Leno also did a segment searching for a new desk, an element which was not implemented into his primetime show.
[51]
- On November 18, 2010, former President
George W. Bush
made his first appearance on a late night talk show since leaving office.
[52]
- On November 23, 2010, former bandleader
Kevin Eubanks
returned to promote his new album
Zen Food
.
- On March 2, 2011, the 4,000th episode aired.
- On February 6, 2014, Leno hosted his final show, which featured several pre-taped well-wishes (and humorous advice) from a variety of celebrities ranging from
Steve Carell
to President Barack Obama, who offered Leno an ambassadorship to
Antarctica
("Hope you have a warm coat, funnyman."). Appearing as Leno's final guests were
Billy Crystal
(Leno's first guest in 1992) and
Garth Brooks
. Crystal surprised Leno by leading an on-stage sing-along of "
So Long, Farewell
" from
The Sound of Music
, with lyrics for the occasion performed by special guests
Jack Black
,
Kim Kardashian
,
Chris Paul
,
Sheryl Crow
,
Jim Parsons
,
Carol Burnett
, and
Oprah Winfrey
; Brooks performed his touching song
"The Dance"
(at Leno's request) before closing out the show with the rousing "
Friends in Low Places
". In closing "the greatest 22 years of my life", Leno turned emotional in his final remarks, calling himself "the luckiest guy in the world... I got to meet presidents, astronauts, and movie stars." Leno also thanked the audience as well as his staff, who "became my family" after the deaths of his parents and his brother early in his
Tonight
tenure.
[53]
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Reception
[
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]
Critical reviews for the show were mixed, with a
Metacritic
score of 49 out of 100, based on 9 reviews.
[55]
In a negative review, Robert Bianco of
USA Today
wrote; "Monday's opening monologue, supposedly Leno's strong suit, was tired, lame and unfunny. In other words, typical of the real Leno, rather than the Leno of public-relations imagination."
[56]
The show was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series category ten times between 1993 and 2005. It won the award in 1995.
[57]
Ratings
[
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]
The 10th Anniversary special, broadcast on April 30, 2002, drew in 11.888 million viewers.
[58]
On September 22, 2006,
The Tonight Show
led in
ratings
for the 11th consecutive season, with a nightly average of 5.7 million viewers ? 31% of the total audience in that time slot ? compared to 4.2 million viewers for
Late Show with David Letterman
, 3.4 million for
Nightline
and 1.6 million for
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
. Two events helped Leno gain and keep the lead: a new set brought Leno closer to the audience and
Hugh Grant
kept his July 10, 1995 scheduled appearance, despite having been arrested for seeing a prostitute, where Leno famously asked Grant, "What the hell were you thinking?"
[59]
The final telecast of the first incarnation of
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
had the show's highest overnight household rating for a Friday episode in the comedian's 17-year run as host of
Tonight
, averaging an 8.8 rating in metered-market households.
[60]
For at least six weeks following his return to
The Tonight Show
, Leno's program beat Letterman in the overall ratings each night, though with a reduced lead in comparison to his first tenure. By mid-2010,
The Tonight Show
was receiving its lowest ratings since 1992, an average of 4 million total viewers, though he remained ahead of Letterman, who experienced a coinciding decline in ratings.
[61]
In September 2010,
The Tonight Show
posted its lowest numbers on record,
[62]
with Leno averaging 3.8 million viewers. This was a 12% increase in total viewers over O'Brien at the same time the previous year, but still 23% below O'Brien in the coveted 18?49 demographic. For the first time in almost 15 years, the show slipped to second place in its time slot being consistently beaten by
Nightline
.
[63]
In October 2010, Letterman beat Leno's program in the ratings, for the first time since Leno returned to hosting
The Tonight Show
.
[24]
[25]
In the May 2011 sweeps period, all of NBCs late night programming had increased viewership.
The Tonight Show
received a 15% increase in viewership compared with the first 36 weeks of last season. In that process, it outlasted rival late night talk shows
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
on ABC, as well as
Late Show with David Letterman
on CBS. Both of Leno's lead-in,
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
and
Last Call with Carson Daly
, also received increased viewership.
[64]
For the season, in the 18?49 demographic,
The Tonight Show
had 4 million viewers, compared with
Late Show
, which had 3.5 million, and
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
, which had only 1.9 million.
Nightline
, though, still beat Leno in the May 2011 sweeps, with 4.4 million viewers.
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Series high
Views
|
Description
|
Date
|
Reference
|
22.4 million
|
Cheers
finale
|
May 20, 1993
|
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|
16.1 million
|
Debut
|
May 25, 1992
|
|
14.96 million
|
Seinfeld
finale
|
May 14, 1998
|
|
14.64 million
|
Series finale
|
February 6, 2014
|
|
11.9 million
|
First series finale
|
May 29, 2009
|
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|
Weekly highs
Views
|
Description
|
Date
|
Reference
|
9.08 million
|
|
May 17, 1993
|
|
8.289 million
|
Finale week
|
February 3?6, 2014
|
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|
Broadcasting in other countries
[
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]
Australia
[
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]
The show was telecast in Australia by
The Comedy Channel
before being discontinued in July 2010, shortly after Leno's reinstatement as the host of
The Tonight Show
.
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The channel had been airing versions by the various presenters under the title
Late Night Legends
. Currently,
The Tonight Show
is one of the few late-night television shows that cannot be viewed on Australian television. The only shows available are
Late Show with David Letterman
on
Network Ten
,
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
on
The Comedy Channel
,
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
on
Eleven
and
Conan
on
GEM
.
Brazil
[
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]
From 1991 to 2000 the cable channel Superstation showed both
The Tonight Show
and
Late Show
in daily bases, one week after airing in the United States. From 2011 the show was broadcast on
Record News
with Brazilian Portuguese subtitles at midnight (local time), two days after airing in United States.
Canada
[
edit
]
Canadian viewers watched the show on
CTV 2
and on
NBC
affiliates close to the U.S./Canada border.
CNBC Asia
[
edit
]
For many years,
The Tonight Show
episodes from the week ran back-to-back on Saturday and Sunday on CNBC Asia, available to Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand ? but since October 2011, they have been replaced by
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
.
CNBC Europe
[
edit
]
CNBC Europe confirmed they would show
The Tonight Show
when
Conan O'Brien
took over from
Jay Leno
in June 2009. After Leno returned, they have been showing
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
. From Monday April 19, 2010, until the show's conclusion under Leno, CNBC Europe aired the show on weeknights from 12.00 am CET in a one-hour format, with double bill re-runs on Saturdays/Sundays from 9:00
pm-9:45 pm & 9:45
pm-10:30 pm CET. The show aired on a one-day delay from original transmission in the US.
Finland
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edit
]
In Finland,
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
was broadcast by MTV3 MAX from Monday to Friday with a three-night delay.
India
[
edit
]
The show was originally broadcast on CNBC. Starting in 2006 it was telecast on
Zee Cafe
at local time 10:00
pm with a one-night delay. It was later shifted to
Zee Trends
in 2011, which was subsequently discontinued after a short run. Now
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
is telecast on Comedy Central at 11:00
pm every weekdays.
Israel
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edit
]
In Israel the show was aired during the 1990s on
NBC Europe
, which was included in Israeli cable (later called the "
Hot
" company), though this channel was pulled from cable in Israel towards the end of the 1990s. Soon after, the show began airing on the Israeli popular cable channel
Hot 3
(then simply called "Channel 3") until 1999. Since 2000, the show is broadcast in the Israeli satellite company
yes
(which launched in that year) in various channels, the current being
yes stars
comedy.
Italy
[
edit
]
In Italy (with Italian subtitles) from 2003 to 2007 when
RaiSat Extra
cancelled the program.
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Philippines
[
edit
]
In the Philippines, channel
ETC
broadcast
The Tonight Show
from 2004 until 2007, when the show was turned over to sister channel
JackTV
and
Talk TV
.
Portugal
[
edit
]
In Portugal, the show was first shown on
SIC Comedia
until the channel was off the air by the end of 2006. The show was switched to
SIC Mulher
until Leno moved to prime-time.
Sic Radical
used to broadcast
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
following the demand from their target audience to O'Brien's humor, after
Jimmy Fallon
took over
Late Night
.
[
citation needed
]
The contract that both NBC and SIC had was not expired by the time
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
got cancelled, so the network received the rights to exhibit
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
.
Sweden
[
edit
]
In Sweden,
Kanal 5
started airing
The Tonight Show
every night Monday to Friday with a one-week delay in 2000. In 2008, Kanal 5 chose to replace it with
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
, and moved
The Tonight Show
to their sister channel
Kanal 9
, with a rerun aired the next day on
Kanal 5
.
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Turkey
[
edit
]
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
was broadcast by
CNBC-e
and e2 on weekdays at 00:00 with a one-night delay.
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