O'Brien to Succeed Leno on 'Tonight' Show
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Conan O'Brien will succeed Jay Leno as host of the "Tonight" show at the end of Mr. Leno's current five-year contract.
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Conan O'Brien is getting his chance to move up in the world. Or   at least into an earlier time slot.
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NBC chose the 50th anniversary of the "Tonight" show on Monday to announce that Jay Leno will be succeeded by "Late Night" host Conan O'Brien in five years &#151; or thousands of jokes from now.
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NBC's "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno will retire at the end of his current five-year contract in 2009 and be replaced by "Late Night" host Conan O'Brien, the network said on Monday.
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Katie Couric, who is scheduled to take over the anchor seat next week, will handle a segment honoring Bob Schieffer tonight.
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NEW YORK  Â For one night, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel will solve the problem of booking guests during the writers' strike by appearing on each other's show.
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Late-night TV comedians Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien said on Monday they will resume taping their shows on January 2, and cross picket lines if necessary, after nearly two months off the air in support of striking film and television writers.
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By Peter Johnson  NEW YORK -- Tonight's the night. Finally.  After five months of  hype that produced hundreds of stories for newspapers, magazines and TV entertainment shows, former NBC Today star Katie Couric makes the transition from morning to nights at 6:30 p.m.
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Jimmy Kimmel will join NBC's late-night hosts in returning with new shows Jan. 2 in the midst of the Hollywood writers strike, ABC said Tuesday. Kimmel, along with Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and other hosts, had honored the strike that began Nov. 5. He said it was a difficult decision to resume work without writers, but he wants to save the jobs of other staffers on the show.
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The droll, puckish, near-effortless comedian dominated late-night television for 30 years as the host of the "Tonight" show.
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Sen. John Kerry, Democratic nominee for president, will be a guest on tonight&#39;s edition of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. &quot;It&#39;s a big get, a huge get,&quot; Comedy Central spokesman Steve Albani said Monday.
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Brookline native Conan O&#39;Brien, host of NBC&#39;s ``Late Night,&#39;&#39; will replace him in five years when Leno&#39;s contract expires, the network announced yesterday.
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Jay Leno, America's leading  late-night comedian as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show," will  retire in 2009 and be replaced by Conan O'Brien, the offbeat  comic whose own show airs an hour later, the network said on  Monday.
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TV talk-show host Conan O'Brien has  bought a Los Angeles home valued at just under $10.5 million in  preparation for his move from New York to take over the reins  of NBC's "The Tonight Show," the Los Angeles Times reported on  Saturday.
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Tiki Barber, who retired from the Giants, will become a broadcaster for NBC's "The Today Show" and is expected to have a role in the network's Sunday night football broadcasts, people with direct knowledge of the negotiations said.
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If David Letterman hoped a deal with striking writers would help him in his battle for late-night supremacy with Jay Leno, it hasn't happened yet. Leno's NBC "Tonight" show averaged 5.17 million viewers last week, despite its writers being on strike and big-name celebrities being encouraged not to cross the picket line.
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Following the lead of Jay Leno and Conan OâBrien, the late-night cable comedy duo will return in early January.