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Kelly Rissman
US Information Reporter
Jimmy Kimmel has divulged a cheeky textual content he despatched Jimmy Fallon after studying the TV host had an episode of his late-night present culled.
It was revealed this week that NBC is reducing againThe Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon from 5 nights per week to 4, with reruns airing on Friday nights.
The key choice comes simply months after the community introduced it was eliminating the home band from Late Night time with Seth Meyers as a consequence of price range cuts.
For the previous few seasons, Fallon has constantly taped new Friday night time episodes regardless of his rivals, together with ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!, CBS’s The Late Night time Present with Stephen Colbert and Comedy Central’s The Day by day Present, solely taping 4 every week.
Talking on Saturday (7 September), Kimmel stated that each one the late-night hosts have a message group arrange, and that they congratulated Fallon upon discovering the information.
“As a gaggle, we now have a textual content chain of all of the late-night hosts and we despatched all of our congratulations to Jimmy Fallon for getting Friday off,” he stated on the Inventive Arts Emmy Awards.
Showing to deal with reviews questioning the way forward for speak reveals, Kimmel then quipped: “There is no such thing as a future for late-night.”
Late-night viewership has declined in recent times as a consequence of networks being pressured to take money-saving measures.
“Sadly, it’s the fact of broadcast and a shrinking market – streaming consuming into this, and YouTube consuming into that,” Late Night time with Seth Meyers’s affiliate musical director Eli Janney stated in June of the price range cuts.
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“Streaming will not be creating wealth, both. So budgets in every single place have been minimize and minimize and minimize. I liken it to a Spotify second in music, the place all of the sudden it’s like, no person needs to pay for music. Music will get devalued.”
Nevertheless, it’s value noting that, earlier this 12 months, Fallon’s present was renewed by NBC to run by 2028. Fallon, 49, first joined The Tonight Present in 2014, taking on internet hosting duties from Jay Leno following his retirement.
