‘Tonight Show’ to Launch Digital Miniseries About Working During Pandemic (EXCLUSIVE)

As Ciara Doherty is on maternity leave, Virgin Media has confirmed that Claire Brock will step in to present The Tonight Show alongside Matt Cooper over the coming months.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” has been renewed for five years — a longer term commitment from NBC to the host than the network had previously disclosed.Susan Rovner, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming chairman, confirmed the renewal during NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation Monday.

The Tonight Show isn’t going anywhere from your late night viewing schedule.

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon has been officially renewed by NBC for five more years.

Chance the Rapper paid a virtual visit to “The Tonight Show” on Friday, with topics of conversation including his upcoming “Magnificent Coloring World” concert film and his idea for a new “Home Alone” reboot that puts a whole new spin on the franchise.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorDon Lemon is getting his name above the title on his late-night program on CNN.The WarnerMedia cable-news outlet will rename the two late-evening hours he has hosted for the past several years “Don Lemon Tonight,” replacing “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon.” CNN spokespersons did not respond immediately to queries seeking comment, but the new show moniker reflects something that has been evident in the program for months — the anchor’s personality and emotional

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorIn the space of just a few weeks, a group of Madison Avenue heavyweights — with names like General Motors, Interpublic Group and WPP — has made public guarantees of ad money for some of the industry’s smaller media outlets, all owned by Black entrepreneurs. Getting these companies to talk about ad spending in public is an amazing feat.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJimmy Fallon, host of “The Tonight Show,” and NBCU are expanding their programming together under a new development deal.“The Kids Tonight Show,” a late-night program hosted by young people, is among the projects being developed under a new pact struck between NBCUniversal and Fallon’s production outlet, Electric Hot Dog.

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon was the first late-night show to bring back a live studio audience.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox News Channel, which has been reworking large parts of its programming schedule in the aftermath of the 2020 election, said it would launch new weekend programs hosted by conservative firebrand Dan Bongino and former South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy.Gowdy will host a 7 p.m. program on Sundays while Bongino will lead a 10 p.m.

Weezer delivered a performance of ‘All The Good Ones’ during their latest appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – you can see it below.Taken from their latest album, ‘Van Weezer’, the song combines the band’s indie roots with more 80’s-inspired rock riffs.You can watch Weezer’s full performance on The Tonight Show below.Last month, the UK and European leg of Weezer’s tour alongside Green Day and Fall Out Boy – the ‘Hella Mega Tour’ – was rescheduled to 2022.After all of the dates

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRobin Roberts worked from home for a good part of the pandemic while hosting America’s most-watched morning-news program.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNielsen’s TV yardstick has been found wanting.A review of recent Nielsen efforts to map out TV audience activity determined the company likely undercounted TV audiences in February of this year, a development that is expected to intensify a growing rift between the measurement giant and the TV networks who depend on it to set discussions with advertisers that help undergird billions of dollars in advertising.The Media Rating Council, an industry organization that

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNielsen, the company that measures TV audiences every day says it still needs a few weeks to get its counting procedures back to normal.In a May 6 letter to TV networks, media-measurement giant Nielsen said it is still working to “resolve outstanding maintenance needs” in approximately 2700 homes that serve in its panel of consumers, and will likely not complete that work until the end of May.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC and Lilly Singh will end her late-night program, “A Little Late With Lilly Singh,” after two years, the latest sign that TV networks are rethinking how to handle a widening array of wee-hours programs as viewing habits shift.Singh has signed a first-look deal with Universal Television Alternative Studio, a division of Universal Studio Group, to develop unscripted projects.

Norwegian singer-songwriter Marie Ulven made a very impressive debut last week as girl in red with the album if i could make it go quiet. "Serotonin," one of the project's lead singles, is a blend of epic Coldplay-style emotion and Billie Eilish-adjacent hip-hop experiments, a perfect combination for a song about overcoming a noisy mind.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorComcast said first-quarter profit rose due largely to increases in business at its cable and Sky operations, while its NBCUniversal business continued to recover from the results of the coronavirus pandemic.The Philadelphia media giant said first quarter profit rose 55% to $3.33 billion, or 71 cents a share, compared with$2.1 billion, or $4.6 billion in the year-earlier period.

On Tuesday’s episode of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon offered his thoughts on a “huge announcement” made by the CDC earlier in the day, concerning mask usage.