Officially introduced Monday as the successor to Conan O'Brien on NBC's Late Night
when O'Brien moves over to the Tonight show next year, Jimmy Fallon joked
that his elementary school principal, Mr. Nostradamus, had listed him in his kindergart
en yearbook as "most likely to take over for David Letterman." As many people are
aware, Mr. Nostradamus has been a bit off with other predictions over the years,
but TV writers had been predicting for weeks that Fallon would be named Late Night
's host (and, of course, Letterman did indeed once host the show himself, jumping
to CBS after the powers-that-be at NBC passed him over for Jay Leno to succeed Johnny
Carson.) Still up in the air is the question of what will happen to Leno when the
game of musical chairs plays out next year (precisely when that will be has not yet
been disclosed). At Monday's news conference, NBC Entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman
said that he was looking to find an inducement to keep Leno at NBC, but he acknowledged that
he might not be able to do so. "I think it's a reach," he said.
13/05/2008
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