But while Fox brass have publicly stated their desire to find a successful five-night-a-week late-night show many times before, it's not clear how smooth (for contractual reasons) or appealing (for affiliates) hiring O'Brien would be.
In the mid-nineties, Bag (an art-world darling best known for the chameleonlike range of personae that she adopts in bitingly satirical videos) and Beckwith (of the cult-favorite collaborative Art Club 2000) co-hosted a late-night public-access TV show.
That's especially good news for late-night talk-show hosts, who should find an anxious audience waiting up for them when they return to the airwaves in early January.
It then had late-night talk-show host Jimmy Fallon select five of the tweets to create its spot which was panned by the ad executives the Journal polled.
Mr. Leno, who has the top-rated late-night show, is 62.
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Late-night talk-show host Conan O'Brien headlined the event.
In an era of salary slashing and other cost cuts, the network rationale is simple: Unlike a drama or comedy, which is typically story-driven and ensemble-based, the host of a late-night show is the draw.
"Mad Men" and "American Horror Story" lead this year's Emmy nominations with 17 nods apiece, while "Downton Abbey" and "Modern Family" round out the top of the pack -- plus a first-time nomination for Kimmel's own late-night talk show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
Rose brings a dose of intellectual gravitas cultivated from his long-running late-night PBS interview show.
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Stephen Colbert shut down his late-night comedy show this week for his ailing 91-year-old mother, sources close to the show said yesterday.
Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show.
The first lady visited the late-night talk show to promote "Let's Move, " her anti-childhood obesity campaign, which marked its third anniversary this month.
Do you know that Tim Tebow has never hosted a late-night talk show in Denmark?
It's true that women make up a majority of the audience for every network late-night show.
The other late-night shows show similar degrees of disconnect with Hispanics, although some can boast healthy black viewership.
However, critics have dismissed it as being too vague and it has become the butt of late-night talk show jokes.
If you want to target a narrow audience, find some late-night cable show that appeals to that group NOT the Super Bowl.
He also shot a pilot for a late-night talk show, Penthouse Vegas, which aired on 35 stations but never got picked up.
Late-night television show host Jay Leno will be replaced by presenter Jimmy Fallon on NBC's The Tonight Show, the US network has said.
While many weekday late-night efforts have failed (see Fox's earlier attempts with Joan Rivers and Chevy Chase), a successful late-night show can mint millions for a network.
Ford Motor Co. enlisted late-night talk show host Jimmy Fallon to choose road trip stories submitted by Twitter with the hashtag (hash)steerthescript to base its Super Bowl commercial for Lincoln.
Structurally, "The Muppets" is simple: Miss Piggy is the star of a late-night show, Kermit is her executive producer, and some assortment of available Henson characters, both new and old, are working behind the scenes.
Correspondents say NBC executives were concerned a rival late-night show hosted by Jimmy Kimmel on the ABC network would make gains among the crucial younger audience if Fallon's move did not happen quickly.
But the late-night sketch comedy show has a history of skewering politicians, sometimes with such precision that the show's catch phrases have become more closely associated with politicians than the politicians' own words.
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Cavett, who will be speaking at noon on Friday, April 19, hosted a late-night TV talk show from 1968 to 1982 and has written a book, Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets.
Though the stoppage over new media compensation will continue indefinitely, a handful of those shows, including General Electric -owned (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, as well as Walt Disney-owned (nyse: DIS - news - people )ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, will return to the screen without writers on Jan. 2.
Thus far the game of late-night musical chairs--Conan O'Brien took the reins at The Tonight Show in June-- hasn't played out as well as it could have for NBC.
In addition to a bigger set, the late-night leader turned prime-time experiment will be assisted by a rotating slate of Daily Show-style correspondents, including NBC News anchor Brian Williams and comedian D.
Tiny Fey, at No. 90, smartly moved into movies and took her late-night TV success to primetime with her NBC show 30 Rock.
Like his late-night competitor Jimmy Kimmel, he has joked on his show about a move to ABC.
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