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Jimmy Fallon is sticking around 30 Rock. Fallon has extended his deal with NBC to continue hosting The Tonight Show through 2028. His current deal, that he signed in 2021, is thought to run through 2026, giving him at least another two years. Fallon, who earlier this year celebrated his tenth…

Conan O'Brien returned to The Tonight Show for the first time as a guest since he left the NBC show. However, the comedian largely dodged talking about his stint on the 11:30pm show. O'Brien hosted the between June 2009 and January 2010 but was replaced by Jay Leno's return to the show. He…

Conan O'Brien is set to make his first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show since his unceremonious departure. The comedian hosted The Tonight Show between June 2009 and January 2010 but was replaced by Jay Leno's return to the show after his short-lived primetime failure. O'Brien will now…

Saturday Night Live wasn’t all laughs. During a Tuesday visit to The Tonight Show, Maya Rudolph and host Jimmy Fallon recalled a special moment at the read-through table. Rudolph recalled pitching a heartfelt tribute to Ferrell during his last read-through in 2002. It never made it onto the air, but…

Late-night TV has had plenty of superstars appearing since the end of the writers strike. But the end of the actors strike is another story. Stars will now be able to promote films and series that were previously struck, opening the door to a slew of new bookings across The Tonight Show Starring…

EXCLUSIVE: There's change at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. A.D. Miles, who was previously head writer on the NBC show and also worked with Fallon on Late Night, is returning to the show as head writer. Mason Steinberg, who was hired in the role last year, is…

Jimmy Fallon has offered a mea culpa to his staff after a report highlighted a "pretty glum atmosphere" at The Tonight Show over the years. Deadline understands that Fallon spoke to staff this afternoon after Rolling Stone published an article that called the NBC show a "toxic workplace". "I'm…

UPDATED, 8:16 AM; first posted at 9:06 p.m. May 1: Nightly talk shows including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, are set to go dark starting on Tuesday after writers agreed to strike. Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Daily Show,…

Late-night television is going through a moment. For the first time in eight years, there's a significant change behind the desks coming in 2023 as the industry wraps its head around the future of nightly, and weekly, talk shows. In 2022, James Corden, as revealed by Deadline, announced he was…

The Boss is heading to 30 Rock. Bruce Springsteen is taking over NBC's The Tonight Show with several performances over the space of a week. Promoting his new album, Only the Strong Survive, Springsteen will appear as a guest on the Jimmy Fallon-hosted show on Monday, November 14. He will debut…

Long gone are the days of 55M people tuning in to see Johnny Carson's final ever appearance hosting The Tonight Show. However, Jimmy Fallon's iteration of the venerable NBC series has reached its own milestone – becoming the first late-night show to reach 30M subscribers on YouTube. "That is a crazy number," said…

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon has some new co-hosts. Megan Thee Stallion and Demi Lovato are heading to Studio 6B to join Jimmy Fallon on the NBC late-night series in a move that they're calling Fallon's Superstar Super Summer. It comes as many of Fallon's late-night peers are on relatively long summer…