Robert De Niro, Lady Gaga and Mike Tyson in the audience as new host takes over long-running NBC talk show
Jimmy Fallon took the reins of the long-running Tonight Show on Monday, bringing NBC's flagship late-night talk show to Manhattan after an absence of more than 40 years.
"I'm Jimmy Fallon and I'll be your host – for now," Fallon told the audience, which included Robert De Niro, Lady Gaga and Mike Tyson.
Tina Fey, Mariah Carey, Lindsay Lohan, Joan Rivers, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and comedian Stephen Colbert also made surprise appearances for Fallon's debut, following the departure this month of long-serving host Jay Leno.
The slew of unannounced walk-ons followed Fallon's remark that someone owed him $100 (£60) after betting he would never host the Tonight Show, at which point De Niro and others strode on stage one after another, each putting notes on to his desk until Colbert showered...
Jimmy Fallon took the reins of the long-running Tonight Show on Monday, bringing NBC's flagship late-night talk show to Manhattan after an absence of more than 40 years.
"I'm Jimmy Fallon and I'll be your host – for now," Fallon told the audience, which included Robert De Niro, Lady Gaga and Mike Tyson.
Tina Fey, Mariah Carey, Lindsay Lohan, Joan Rivers, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and comedian Stephen Colbert also made surprise appearances for Fallon's debut, following the departure this month of long-serving host Jay Leno.
The slew of unannounced walk-ons followed Fallon's remark that someone owed him $100 (£60) after betting he would never host the Tonight Show, at which point De Niro and others strode on stage one after another, each putting notes on to his desk until Colbert showered...
- 2/18/2014
- The Guardian - Film News
With ratings-challenged NBC struggling to find its feet as the broadcast network world shifts and rolls beneath it, and with broadcast television itself being regularly lamented as having one foot in the grave and the other on slippery ground, one might be tempted to think the Peacock might as well fold its tail feathers for good.
But there is a center of gravity to the NBC universe, and it is every weeknight, right after your local news -- "The Tonight Show." On Monday, Feb. 17, that center shifts from its longtime home in Los Angeles (aka "beautiful downtown Burbank") to its ancestral home of New York, where it launched with host Steve Allen in 1954.
After the departure of host Jay Leno (again) following a 22-year run -- briefly interrupted by a failed experiment with Conan O'Brien in 2009-10 -- "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" makes its debut from Studio 6B at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan.
But there is a center of gravity to the NBC universe, and it is every weeknight, right after your local news -- "The Tonight Show." On Monday, Feb. 17, that center shifts from its longtime home in Los Angeles (aka "beautiful downtown Burbank") to its ancestral home of New York, where it launched with host Steve Allen in 1954.
After the departure of host Jay Leno (again) following a 22-year run -- briefly interrupted by a failed experiment with Conan O'Brien in 2009-10 -- "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" makes its debut from Studio 6B at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan.
- 2/17/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
If New York isn’t trying hard to lure The Tonight Show back to Manhattan, it’s doing a pretty good impression.
A Cuomo administration official said Thursday that New York is trying to lure TV shows from California with a proposed tax credit program and the Tonight show would qualify if it decides to move back to Manhattan. The show moved to Burbank in 1972 when Johnny Carson was host.
But there is no deal with NBC or the Tonight show, and the official wouldn’t say if the state is trying to attract the show. The person wasn’t...
A Cuomo administration official said Thursday that New York is trying to lure TV shows from California with a proposed tax credit program and the Tonight show would qualify if it decides to move back to Manhattan. The show moved to Burbank in 1972 when Johnny Carson was host.
But there is no deal with NBC or the Tonight show, and the official wouldn’t say if the state is trying to attract the show. The person wasn’t...
- 3/22/2013
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside TV
Albany, N.Y. — If New York isn't trying hard to lure "The Tonight Show" back to Manhattan, it's doing a pretty good impression.
A Cuomo administration official said Thursday that New York is trying to lure TV shows from California with a proposed tax credit program and the "Tonight" show would qualify if it decides to move back to Manhattan. The show moved to Burbank in 1972 when Johnny Carson was host.
But there is no deal with NBC or the "Tonight" show, and the official wouldn't say if the state is trying to attract the show. The person wasn't authorized to comment on any potential deals and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Still, a bill in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pending budget looks like it's all about "Tonight," without ever mentioning the iconic show that began broadcasting in the 1950s from Manhattan and has featured...
A Cuomo administration official said Thursday that New York is trying to lure TV shows from California with a proposed tax credit program and the "Tonight" show would qualify if it decides to move back to Manhattan. The show moved to Burbank in 1972 when Johnny Carson was host.
But there is no deal with NBC or the "Tonight" show, and the official wouldn't say if the state is trying to attract the show. The person wasn't authorized to comment on any potential deals and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Still, a bill in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pending budget looks like it's all about "Tonight," without ever mentioning the iconic show that began broadcasting in the 1950s from Manhattan and has featured...
- 3/22/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Before he set loose Leatherface on an unsuspecting America, Tobe Hooper directed Eggshells and the Steve Allen Theater Drive-In in Los Angeles (4773 Hollywood Blvd.) is giving you a chance to see this "lost" '68 film from the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre . Beginning December 4, the film - which screened to SXSW audiences in March - will get a midnight run at the Steve Allen (part of a limited theatrical run) before hitting DVD from Watchmaker Films. Due to weather concerns the screenings may move from the outdoor drive-in screening to the indoor theater (at the same venue) at the end of December. Eggshells is described as a trippy experience capturing "the Austin counter culture scene of the late sixties, new attitudes of sex, love, drugs and...
- 11/29/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
At the Museum of Contemporary Art/American Cinematheque benefit screening of Parasomnia (see item here), Fango got a chance to quickly chat to some of the assembled filmmakers about their upcoming projects. First up, Wes Craven took a moment to discuss the title of his latest feature, Rogue Pictures’ 25/8.
“It’s based on a phrase in the movie, saying that if you fight the devil 24/7, it’s not enough—you have to fight 25/8,” Craven tells us. “The phrase was in the film, in the dialogue. The original title of the movie was Bug, which is the name of the central character [played by Max Thieriot, pictured]. I was about halfway through writing the script when somebody said, ‘I just read that William Friedkin has a film coming out called Bug.’ So that was that for that title. It’s very punchy and intriguing, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles.”
Meanwhile, Mick Garris, recently...
“It’s based on a phrase in the movie, saying that if you fight the devil 24/7, it’s not enough—you have to fight 25/8,” Craven tells us. “The phrase was in the film, in the dialogue. The original title of the movie was Bug, which is the name of the central character [played by Max Thieriot, pictured]. I was about halfway through writing the script when somebody said, ‘I just read that William Friedkin has a film coming out called Bug.’ So that was that for that title. It’s very punchy and intriguing, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles.”
Meanwhile, Mick Garris, recently...
- 4/23/2009
- Fangoria
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