According to FoxNews, Jimmy Fallon (”Saturday Night Live”) is set to take Conan O’Brien’s job as host of “Late Night” in 2009. Conan, of course, will be taking over for Jay Leno, who will leave the “Tonight Show” in May 2009 as part of a forced retirement.
NBC will make the formal announcement about Fallon around May 11th or 12th, when the network presents the fall ‘08 schedule to advertisers in New York.
Fallon, who recently married producer Nancy Juvonen, is said to be thrilled and ready, if not a little scared, about taking Conan’s desk. He still has to pick a producer and a band, among other things.
As for Leno, he has plenty of options. One of them might be to replace “Nightline” on ABC, pushing Jimmy Kimmel back to 12:30am.
SOURCE: worstpreviews.com
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