Jim Bell, who has served as showrunner on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonfor the past year, is stepping down. Gavin Purcell, who recently signed an exclusive overall producing deal with Universal Television, has been named interim showrunner.
Bell is leaving NBC after a tenure that spanned almost three decades…
NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon will kick off the football season with a special five-Sunday run of post-Sunday Night Football telecasts. The first arrives with the September 8 game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots. Watch a promo below.
Guests for the first telecast include Jamie…
The sixth host in the history of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon has spent much of the last 20 years within Rockefeller Center, always looking to provide as much energy, entertainment value and out-of-the-box thinking as possible. Joining Saturday Night Live in 1998, Fallon then turned to the late-night sphere, cutting…
No spoiler alert needed on this one: Game of Thrones star Kit Harington winked his way through a comedy bit with Jimmy Fallon on last night’s Tonight, all good natured as he sort of pretended to reveal such mysteries as the fate of Jon Snow and whether he’ll finally get to ride a dragon.
Neither Harington nor Fallon…
Tracy Morgan sat down with The Tonight Show host and fellow Saturday Night Live alum to talk about his latest gig: a new role on Empire. “Contractually, all I have to do is fake a hate crime,” Morgan said with a straight face. Obviously, Morgan did not really get a role on Empire, he was just taking a dig at Jussie Smo…
Annoying voices, face slaps and big sandwiches happen when Jimmy Fallon and announcer Steve Higgins go Bandersnatch. In a video on Friday’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the late-nighters get stuck in an interactive hell inspired by the Netflix hit.
Like Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, in which viewers choose…
Miley Cyrus respects the past, but she’s not a traditionalist. Thus, it was no surprise that she updated the lyrics to a Christmas classic when she appeared Thursday on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Cyrus performed the classic Eartha Kitt number Santa Baby. Of course, in an age where sensitivites are…
The Tonight Show will hit the road to air a special episode from Puerto Rico on January 15, during the 24-show run of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamiltonon the island to raise relief funds in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. The news was announced during an interview with Miranda for tonight’s episode (see the video…
CBS’ Late Show With Stephen Colbert was back Monday and looking particularly animated after the Thanksgiving holiday. In a twist on the standard clip show – the second-best advancement in look-back evolution this season, following an October installment of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – Colbert appeared in…
Bob Dylan let his new whiskey do the talking during a pre-taped, unbilled appearance on last night’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The bit came about 2/3 of the way through the show – after guest Jerry Seinfeld had already surprised the crowd by beginning Fallon’s monologue while the usual host was still…
Toy Story 4Â features an intriguing newcomer to the toy box : Keanu Reeves. That according to franchise co-star Tim Allen, who shared the tidbit Wednesday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Allen, who plays the gung-ho space ranger Buzz Lightyear, was cryptic about the character Reeves plays but he hinted that…
NBC has made it official. Former Today executive producer Jim Bell has been named executive in charge and showrunner for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, effective immediately. As Deadline reported Monday, Bell had been in talks for the position in light of producer Mike DiCenzo’s decision to leave the program…
