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The War for Late Night : When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy Paperback - 2011
by Bill Carter
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
In this dramatic account of the politics and personalities behind NBC's calamitous attempt to reinvent late-night television, Carter offers a detailed behind-the-scenes account of the events of the unforgettable 2009/2010 late-night season.
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- Title The War for Late Night : When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy
- Author Bill Carter
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
- Date 2011
- Features Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0452297494I4N10
- ISBN 9780452297494 / 0452297494
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 1 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Leno, Jay, Television talk shows - United States -
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.45
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Summary
The New York Times bestselling author of The Late Shift delivers "a boisterous, two-timing, high-stakes drama about the business of comedy" (The Associated Press).
No one is more uniquely suited to document television's latest late- night travesty than veteran media reporter and bestselling author, Bill Carter. NBC's CEO, Jeff Zucker, had it all worked out when he moved Jay Leno from behind the desk at The Tonight Show, and handed the reins over to Conan O'Brien. But as everyone knows, his decision was a spectacular failure. Ratings plummeted, affiliates were enraged-and when Zucker tried to put everything back the way it was, that plan backfired as well.
In candid detail, Carter charts the vortex that sucked in-not just Leno and O'Brien-but also Letterman, Stewart, Fallon, Kimmel, and Ferguson as frantic agents and network executives tried to manage a tectonic shift in television's most beloved institution.