CNN’s new six-part docuseries “The Story of Late Night” begins this Sunday May 2nd at 9pm. I’ve screened the first episode (titled “Inventing Late Night”), which breezes through the ‘50s and most of the ‘60s at a fairly rapid pace. This isn’t the most thorough look at the origins of network programming at 11:30pm. And […]
Over the past few weeks I’ve watched some old episodes of “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” on AntennaTV. They air weeknights at 10pm. Carson’s 30-year reign ended six years before I was born, so this is the first time I’m getting to experience what it was like for my parents’ and grandparents’ generation to […]
This week marks the 10 year anniversary of the debut of “The Jay Leno Show”. That’s right, it’s been a decade since Jay Leno briefly went from Late Night to Primetime. The shake-up has been considered one of the biggest flaws in television history. In 2004, 12 years into Leno’s run, NBC announced that “Late […]