Letterman Baffled by NBC’s Replacing of Leno

Letterman On Team Leno [TV]
Gawker — ... "Unless I’m misunderstanding something, I don’t know why, after the job Jay has done for them, why they would relinquish that... I guess empathy is the right word." [Times] ...

Letterman Baffled by NBC's Replacing of Leno
Media Decoder — ... this week, Mr. Letterman, the longtime “Late Show” host, expresses bewilderment about NBC’s decision, first announced four years ago, to replace Mr. Leno next year with Conan O’Brien, the current host of “Late Night.” “Unless I’m misunderstanding something, I don’t know why, after the job Jay has done for them, why they would relinquish that,” Mr. Letterman said in the interview. “I guess they thought it was a less messy way to handle what happened to me at NBC. I don’t know.” Read more in today’s New York Times…

Dave on Jay
Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton — ... In a new Rolling Stone interview Letterman reveals that he empathizes with Leno's 'forced' retirement from the Tonight Show. ...

Channel Surfing: Oprah on "30 Rock," "Closer" Spin-off, "Lost" Casting, and More
Televisionary — ... ) David Letterman has expressed sympathy for his one-time latenight rival Jay Leno, who is being replaced by Conan O'Brien as the host of Late Night . "I don’t know why, after the job Jay has done for them, why they would relinquish that,” Letterman said in an interview to be published in Rolling Stone . “I guess they thought it was a less messy way to handle what happened to me at NBC. I don’t know.” ( New York Times ) TNT has ordered a pilot script for The Fixer , a spin-off of their hit drama series The Closer . No details about whether the putative series would focus on ...

Who would you pick to succeed David Letterman?
PopWatch — ... , in which Dave discusses some of his more memorable guests. But none of this stuff is what intrigued me the most about what Letterman had to say. Buried at the bottom of this ...

NBC Will Move Jay Leno to 10 p.m. Weekday Nights
Gothamist — ... Leno will be staying at NBC when his Tonight Show contract is up--and will be moving into primetime with a Monday-to-Friday weekday at 10 p.m. talk show. Conan O'Brien has been the longtime successor to the Tonight Show throne, but with Leno's strong late night ratings success and NBC's overall ratings disappointments, some were wondering if NBC was in a position to lose a valuable asset like Leno, even possibly alienating him. Heck, even rival David Letterman wondered why NBC would usher the streaking Leno out). And then ABC became very interested in ...