HE Pennypacker

None of these late-night hosts are funny in the least. The skits are lame and each individual's schtick gets old very quickly. Conan over Leno? Ferguson over Kimmel? Screw 'em all. They all suck. If it were up to me I'd get rid of these types of programs all together and have a Tavis Smiley or Charlie Rose type format during the time-slot. No fuss, no muss.

Double_Oh_7

Wait-- you have never, EVER, watched a show on CBS?? I find that hard to believe.

Doug Heffernan

I thought this car wash bit was lol worthy.

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DJariya

CBS already owned Medium. They just licensed it out to NBC. They were more than happy to take it back.

Jay isn't going anywhere with numbers like his premiere turned in. I think the most we will see the ratings drop to will be 8-9M viewers, which is still very good for a relatively cheap show to produce.

Quake1028

Time will tell once he faces some real counter-programming.

Meglos

Opinions suck!

DJariya

Well, next Monday Jay faces CSI: Miami and Castle. I think he's a lock to finish 3rd right there.

ANDREMIKE

I have never watched a TV series on CBS... there was never anything that interested me. In fact the only thing I ever watched on CBS is the Price is Right..

I guess now I will be watching Medium..

Gizmo

I have yet to watch CBS since they canceled Moonlight. Nothing this season is changing my mind either.

Deftones

Those are fantastic ratings. We'll see if they hold. Even if they dropped to the 10 million - 12 million range, it's still much higher than nearly anything NBC has on the air anyway.

TGM

LOL, NBC is REALLY throwing Conan under the bus... just heard a commercial for Jay's new show, with the voice over slogan of "End your day with Jay" ... if I were Conan I'd be like "Ummmm..... hello?????"

Giantrobo

FRwL

It was pretty good, although i never watch the music or interviews, unless it's some iconic actor/director.

SuperJim88

For god sakes people, it's only the first episode.

DJariya

Yet they make a show in the summer (Harper's Island) that is 100% designed for your age group w/ Katie Cassidy and other young actors and had a beginning and an end and yet you refused to watch it because you still think it's an old people's network.

DJariya

I think more than half the people in this forum who so badly want this show to fail aren't going to let go of the hatred.

Mr. Salty

Not really. It's the first show after a three-month break from a show that he's been doing for 17 years. He essentially has the same crew, the same band, the same writers. The set has changed, but what we saw last night was Leno's "Tonight Show" with a different name.

ANDREMIKE

and is precisely why I hope it fails. I thought this new show was going to be completely different.. He should of stayed in the regular timeslot, or just retired.. Its not that I hate Leno, its just not the right time slot for this. Especially 5 nights a week.

Cardiff Giant11

I didn't catch most of this (just a few minutes at the end) and I think they went the wrong angle by just rehashing The Tonight Show. Jay's a decent interviewer and I'd love to just basically see like a 5 minute opening bit (monologue sketch or otherwise) and then just devote the rest of the show to interviewing the two guests. It's a bit Tom Synder-esque but I think it would be a good way to distinguish the show.

mcnabb

I don't know what people are looking for, as there really isn't anything new he can do. Yes, it is essentially the Tonight Show at 10:00 now, but that's all I was expecting.

Heck, I wish all the late night shows were on this time, cause I fall asleep by 11:30 anyway. Even though I have DVR, I never really watch them the next day. With all the crap on TV now, its something I enjoy at 10PM now.

Rypro 525

Michael Moore singing "the Times Are A Changin"

JuryDuty

I finally watched Monday's show. I thought it was The Tonight Show with a different set. Since so many of us have DVRs, it's exactly the same. You fast forward to a couple bits you want to see and ignore the rest. I wouldn't put it on a Season Pass, but I'd watch it here and there, just like before.

I agree though that it kinda screws Conan. Seriously, how many people want to watch an hour of Leno followed by a half hour of news, then another hour of basically the same thing? I think people will choose one or the other and unfortunately for Conan, Leno has years of devoted followers.

Darknite39

I watch Conan, Ferguson, Letterman, and sometimes Kimmel. Fallon isn't worth the time, and I'll give this a shot, but since I didn't watch the old Tonight Show, I doubt I'll end up watching this one, either.

I think NBC is spitting in Conan's face (especially given some of the ads), though I wonder what effect it would have had for Jay to head over to ABC?

Giantrobo

Man, I hear people laughing so hard at Jay's lame "jokes" it makes me wonder if they're being payed to make noise.

riley_dude

They are all must better than Leno. That is except Joe McCale of The Soup.