EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Fallon will keep jamming in primetime for NBC.
27.09.2023 - 18:23 / etcanada.com
Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon will be flashing their smiles on the small screen in no time.
“The Tonight Show” and “Late Night” are gracing the airwaves on Monday, Oct 2, Deadline reports. They’ll align with the return of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
While being off the air due to the now-resolved WGA strike, the television hosts linked up for the “Strike Force Five” podcast, which also featured John Oliver.
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“Their mission complete, the founding members of Strike Force 5 will return to their network television shows this Monday 10/2 and one of them to premium cable on 10/1,” shared the late-night clan in a PR release.
News of Fallon’s return to television frames comes after Rolling Stone published a lengthy exposé on the comedian last month regarding his “toxic behaviour” on set with coworkers and staff.
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Fallon has since apologized on social media for the reports wielded against him, saying he never intended to create a toxic workplace.
“We want to thank the entire Strike Force 5 team, our wives, our special guests and apologize to Conan O’Brien, who agreed to do the pod but Stephen forgot to send him any possible dates and the strike ended,” ends the PR statement from the gang.
EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Fallon will keep jamming in primetime for NBC.
Hayley Williams has revealed US talk show host Jimmy Fallon was an unlikely inspiration behind Paramore‘s music.It comes as Paramore released their remix album ‘Re: This Is Why’ today (October 6), which honours artists who have either influenced the members or who the band have gone on to inspire. In a new appearance on The Tonight Show discussing the album, host Jimmy Fallon asked the frontwoman about her early influences.Alongside Deftones, Failure, and The Cure, she unveiled one more surprising influence: Jimmy Fallon himself.Williams, who met future Paramore members Zac and Josh Farro – the latter of which has since left the band – at a homeschooling supplemental programme in Tennessee, said Fallon’s 2003 comedy song ‘Idiot Boyfriend’ “took over our homeschool”.“[It was a] huge hit with the Paramore crew!” she joked.Fallon then asked Williams if he was the influence for Paramore, and she confirmed: “Yes! 100 per cent!”Williams explained that she discovered Fallon’s deep cut on MTV, which would play every morning that the Paramore band members would meet up: “Your song played more than John Mayer at the same time”, she said.The rock musician went on to praise the ‘Idiot Boyfriend’ music video as “iconic”, which features a fresh-faced Zooey Deschanel.
It’s been a hectic few weeks for Jimmy Fallon, but he and his TV crew are finally back on the airwaves.
TV’s bevy of late-night talk show hosts took aim at the strikes in their first monologues in 5 months.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Late night was back in full force on Monday night, and the hosts of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers” were all expected to have something to say about it in their opening monologues. “It feels good to be back,” Colbert said at the start of his October 2 monologue — his first since May 1, the last evening before the WGA strike commenced the following day. “It feels good to be with all of you again here in the Ed Sullivan Theatre.
Seth Meyers opened his first Late Night show in five months with a long list of thank yous.
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The official end of the Writers Guild strike on Wednesday brought a slew of news from the world of late-night television, which was the first to go off the air in May when the writers hit the picket lines.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director When Jimmy Fallon returns to the air in Oct. following the end of the WGA strike, it will continue his 14th year as the host of an NBC late night talk show. The “Saturday Night Live” alum got his late night start by taking over for Conan O’Brien as the host of “Late Night,” which Fallon led from March 2, 2009 to Feb.
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Late-night will coming back.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large As the WGA strike draws to a close, first stop on the road to normalcy will be late night — where producers are already plotting a return to air within the next two to three weeks. “We want to come back ASAP,” said one late night insider.
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