Leno maintains lead over Letterman
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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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Late-night TV hosts Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien plan to cross picket lines to resume taping shows on January 2, nearly two months after the Hollywood writers strike forced them off the air, the NBC network said on Monday.
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US talk show hosts Jay Leno and David Letterman are to make a comeback despite the writers' strike.
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Bob Newhart didn't die. The ratings weren't disastrous. Conan   O'Brien didn't bomb.
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Jay Leno will hand over the reins of NBC&#39;s &quot;The Tonight Show&quot; to &quot;Late Night&quot; host Conan O&#39;Brien -- but not until 2009, the network announced Monday.
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Variety - NEW YORK -- Fueled by John Kerry's guest appearance Monday, CBS latenight host David Letterman posted his highest overnight ratings for a season premiere since the program bowed in 1993.
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David Letterman isn't leaving the home office anytime soon.
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Eight weeks after their writers went on strike and plunged their shows into reruns, Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan OâBrien returned to late-night television Wednesday with original shows in which both the Iowa caucuses and the new facial hair on two of the hosts loomed large.
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LOS ANGELES  - Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel, hosts of two of the struck late-night talk shows that resumed production last week, guested on each other's shows Thursday.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- President Bush has maintained his post-convention bounce and even grown his support to a nine-point lead over Democratic rival John Kerry, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll released Friday.
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The storied rivalry between Jay  Leno and David Letterman takes a new twist on Wednesday when  the two stars of U.S. late-night television return to the air  two months into a bitter strike by TV and film writers.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - &quot;NBC Nightly News&quot; maintained its ratings lead on Brian Williams&#39; first night as the telecast&#39;s new anchor and managing editor following Tom Brokaw&#39;s tenure of more than 20 years, NBC said Friday.
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David Letterman is planning to outlast Jay Leno in late-night television. CBS Corp. and Letterman have agreed to a four-year contract extension that will keep the comic on the "Late Show" through the 2009-10 television season, according to two executives familiar with the negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday because the deal wasn't fully done.
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Rasmussen Reports - Incumbent Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano is maintaining her comfortable lead in Arizona&#39;s gubernatorial contest.&nbsp; The latest Rasmussen Reports election survey shows Napolitano leading Republican challenger Len Munsil 56% to 38%.
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an unlikely place to launch a bid to become leader of the free world, but Fred Thompson isn&#39;t the first 2008 presidential candidate to kick off his or her campaign in a non-traditional setting
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Jay Leno, America's leading  late-night comedian as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show," will  retire at the end of his current five-year contract in 2009 and  be replaced by Conan O'Brien, the network said on Monday.
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Rasmussen Reports - In one of the country&#39;s most closely watched races, incumbent Senator Joseph Lieberman (I) continues to sustain a bare lead, now 45% to 43%, over Democrat Ned Lamont.