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The War For Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy
by Carter, Bill
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 067002208X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670022083
- Seller
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About This Item
NY: Viking Press, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover_card stock spine. Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine. 6.5"x9.4" 406 indexed pp. 3rd printing. Blue boards. Black cardstock spine w/gilt letters. Jacket images: Conan O'Brien appears on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Kevin Winter / Getty images; Television, Seth Joel / Getty Images; Power cord, Colin Anderson / Getty Images. Author photo Beth Carter. Designed by Daniel Lagin. Set in Palatino LT Std. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Light soiling to back of DJ. Light shelf wear to outsided of DJ. Bill Carter, executive producer of CNN's docuseries The Story of Late Night and host of the Behind the Desk: Story of Late Night podcast, details the chaotic transition of The Tonight Show from host Jay Leno to Conan O'Brien--and back again.
In 2010, 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 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.
No one is more uniquely suited to document the story of a late-night travesty than veteran media reporter and bestselling author, Bill Carter. In candid detail, he 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.
Source: Publisher.
In 2010, 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 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.
No one is more uniquely suited to document the story of a late-night travesty than veteran media reporter and bestselling author, Bill Carter. In candid detail, he 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.
Source: Publisher.
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13646
- Title
- The War For Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy
- Author
- Carter, Bill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_card stock spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067002208X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670022083
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2010
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