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2:38 pm, July 27th, 2013
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Jay Leno may be sticking around NBC after all.
On Saturday, the network’s entertainment chief Robert Greenblatt told the Television Critics’ Association summer tour audience that he hopes Leno, slated to turn “The Tonight Show” over to Jimmy Fallon in 2014, stays in the fold and has an on-air presence once his nightly hosting duties are done.
“Nothing would make us happier than to have [Leno] — a la Bob Hope — stay at the network,” Greenblatt was quoted as saying.
Hope famously hosted a number of specials on NBC over the decades.
Leno is said to have a “lot of ideas” about such a post-”Tonight Show” presence, although nothing specific was offered.
Greenblatt made it clear, however, that he didn’t anticipate the type of transition disaster that occurred in 2009, when NBC took the “Tonight Show” from Leno, handed it to Conan O’Brien, gave Leno a 10 p.m. nightly series, and then ultimately re-installed him at 11:35 p.m.
“We really believe in Jimmy Fallon,” said Greenblatt.
NBC currently plans to debut the Fallon “Tonight Show” after next year’s Winter Olympics.
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