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Jimmy Fallon reportedly replacing Jay Leno on Tonight show

 
Published on Mar 21, 2013
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This Jan 13, 2013 file photo shows Jay Leno, host of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, (left), and Jimmy Fallon, host of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon backstage at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California. As Jay Leno makes jokes about ratings-challenged NBC in his Tonight monologues, speculation is swirling the network is taking steps to replace the host with Jimmy Fallon next year and move the talk show from California to New York. -- FILE PHOTO: JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION/AP

LOS ANGELES (AP) - As Jay Leno makes jokes about ratings-challenged NBC in his Tonight monologues, speculation is swirling the network is taking steps to replace the host with Jimmy Fallon next year and move the talk show from California to New York.

NBC confirmed on Wednesday it was creating a new studio for Fallon in New York, where he hosts "Late Night". But the network did not comment on a report that the studio may become home to a transplanted, Fallon-hosted "Tonight". The New York Times reported the plan on Wednesday, citing unidentified network executives. The Hollywood Reporter had a March 1 report about a Fallon-Leno switch, which the network denied.

Looming over NBC is its messy, failed effort to replace Leno with Conan O'Brien, which ended in 2010 with Leno regaining "Tonight" and NBC losing O'Brien - who got a US$45 million (S$57 million) exit deal - to TBS.

Leno's current "Tonight" contract expires in September next year.

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