Jan 9 2010 02:31 PM ET

CBS entertainment president Nina Tassler on Jay Leno: 'It was misguided'

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CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler said NBC’s decision to program the now-ailing The Jay Leno Show in primetime was “misguided” and though it allowed her Read the full post.

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  • tomm
    Sat 01/09/10 11:45 PM

    I do get sick of hearing abut how ‘young’ Conan is, as if he is still 30? He’s 46! Jay was younger than that in 1992!

    The Late Night loyalists do not watch TV before Midnight, so Cona is not getting the #’s. Also, CBS’s hits show how LAZY viewers are in picking shows. It has to have a familiar name or no one will click to it.

    People who demand ‘quality TV’ are the ones who are viewing only online YouTube clips, or out clubbing, then complain that ‘nothing good is on’.

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  • DeezNutz
    Sun 01/10/10 3:40 AM

    Heres’ a revolutionary thought! Fire them all, and get some fresh blood in there! Give “The Tonight Show” to Triumph the insult comic dog, at least he’s funnier than leno and Conan put together.

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  • Chuck
    Sun 01/10/10 4:09 AM

    The only show worth watching on TV today is LOST….everything else is crap…and if an episode of the Jay Leno Show never airs again the world will go on rotating with no problem..

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  • Michelle Anderson
    Sun 01/10/10 10:29 AM

    “Ultimately there is no substitute for developing great programming….”

    Still waiting…

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  • lross
    Sun 01/10/10 10:59 AM

    I don’t listen to someone who thought cancelling Moonlight was a good idea.

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  • lmkia
    Sun 01/10/10 11:17 AM

    Ms. Tassler’s comment about the industry being “bruised” is likely not a comment about the relative quality of Leno vs. material her own network is producing and the artistic impact of the decision, but rather it is in reference to the number of jobs lost by NBC’s programming of a single talk show in the slots that five scripted dramas had previously occupied. While staffing sizes vary it is unquestioned that thousands of jobs were lost due to that decision, at a time when the industry is still feeling the impact of the writer’s strike, the general economic downturn is affecting everyone and viewership (particularly in the target demographic of young people who are felt to have less ingrained brand loyalty) and ad revenues are generally seeing a downward trend.

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  • redd
    Sun 01/10/10 1:23 PM

    how dumb is nbc going to look for cancelling southland when leno is moved! it was just a dumb and unfair move on their part. i hope southland becomes a hit for tnt and shove it in thier faces.

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  • Alice Woody
    Sun 01/10/10 1:55 PM

    Can Conan he is not funny never has been and never will> I do enjoy Leno I never watch Letterman so what its the problem, you should can Conan and move Leno back at least give us something to watch.

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  • MaryJane
    Sun 01/10/10 2:59 PM

    Leno was the best thing that NBC had going until some idiot decided that they wanted to keep Conan before his contract ran out. I say, let him go, who cares, Conan the Talentless totally sucks. Leno was bringing in millions for late night TV while Conan is losing those same millions and more, if that kind of decision had been made in any other organization, the fool who made that decision have been fired for screwing with a good thing. NBC deserves to be in the toilet, they don’t know how to run a network.

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  • scott
    Sun 01/10/10 5:20 PM

    When Carson left the air. Alot of people wanted him to stay. And when Leno came on, Im sure people who were Carson fans was not too please with Leno. But Carson was gone and the reality was Leno was the new host and the new era belong to him. Now it’s Conan’s turn. And Leno just can not stay out of the picture. Yeah Conan’s ratings are down cause with Leno on 10/9 pm he is cutting into the viewership. Leno must not a life. You think with all that money, you can find something else to do.It’s like if the CEO of an company retires and then he comes back to work in the mail room…kinda stupid.

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  • Gabby
    Sun 01/10/10 6:13 PM

    Patton Oswald makes some great points in this radio interview about Leno/Conan.

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  • Alan of Montreal
    Sun 01/10/10 6:26 PM

    this from the network who began and burdened us with the onslaught of reality programming. You want to talk about putting “creative people” out of work?

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