January 15, 201016 yr Founder [imgleft] [/imgleft]Conan O'Brien is done! (Or not.) Jay Leno's definitely going back to "The Tonight Show"! (Not yet, at least.) That's about the size of Thursday's (Jan. 14) news in the NBC late-night saga. There were reports and counter-reports and denials, and it all ended up in about the same place we were the day before. To sum up: TMZ reported Thursday afternoon -- not long after NBC released its post-Olympics, Jay Leno-free prime-time schedule -- that NBC and Leno had struck a deal with NBC to return as host of "The Tonight Show." NBC quickly denied it. Soon after that, People said that O'Brien's last day as "Tonight Show" host would be Jan. 22 (echoing an earlier tweet by ESPN.com columnist and former "Jimmy Kimmel Live" writer Bill Simmons). Then People rival Us Weekly replied that wasn't the case -- "Not true," an O'Brien rep tells the magazine. "The Tonight Show" is scheduled to be in reruns the week of Jan. 25, but that was scheduled before the current situation exploded. The time when NBC has to say something is drawing near, for sure. But until that happens, we can expect more days like this one.
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