Re: Jimmy Kimmel - A job interview?

"Tom W" <bleemer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> nikbre wrote:
>> Was that a job interview?
>>
>> I mean, within a year after Leno has quit, Dave will probaby retire.
>> And maybe, maybe John Stewart shouldn't be too sure that he will take
>> over after Dave. I got a feeling that Dave really likes Jimmy and if
>> Worldwide Pants will continue to produce the Late Show, Dave will have
>> some influence regarding who will succeed him.
>
> I don't think it was a job interview as much as a courtesy by Dave. If 
> anything, it shows his hostility is personal toward Leno and not toward 
> all of his competitors.
>
> As for predictions about everybody's future behavior, what you propose
is 
> as valid as what anybody proposes but there's no way to know. Remember 
> that NBC tried to engineer a smooth Tonight Show transition by moving 5 
> years before the act and look at what that's turning into. My only 
> question with your scenario is what does CBS get out of letting
Worldwide 
> Pants hold the 11:35 time slot?


the audience.




>
> Tom W