Leno: NBC forced "Tonight" departure: "It broke my heart … I was devastated"
Jay Leno told Oprah Winfrey he never wanted to give up "The Tonight Show," but in 2004 NBC asked him to leave and he "told a little white lie" to go along with the plan that left him "devastated." Leno also blamed Conan for being "destructive to the franchise" with his low "Tonight Show" ratings. Being cast as the bad guy, he added, is "hugely embarrassing." But he was quick to point out that NBC was at fault. "Anything they did would have been better than this. Anything!" said Leno. "Anything they did. If they’d come in and shot everybody, I mean, it would have been people murdered, but at least it would have been a two-day story. Yes, NBC could not have handled it worse, from 2004 onward."
Leno: "I got sucker-punched" by Jimmy Kimmel
Conan on WGN?: Chicagoans want Conan to move his new show to Windy City
Jeff Probst's "Live for the Moment" is a pile of cheap hooey
Tonight's CBS special, says Hank Stuever, "winds up being one of the skeeviest and most exploitative things on television since . . . well, not that long, because television finds so many ways to skeeve and exploit in the name of 'reality." He adds: "Hammering viewers over the head with its empty platitudes ('Life is what you make it" and "If you want something bad enough, just go for it'), this show is a bathetic example of the misguided charity that defines a modern culture obsessed with conspicuous acts of altruism." PLUS: Probst manages to pull off inspirational TV.
"Mad TV" already spoofed the iPad — 2 years ago
"Why use a Maxipad, when there's the new iPad from Apple."
Carrie Underwood will sing the Super Bowl national anthem
Queen Latifah will sing "America the Beautiful."
University of Washington is offering a class on "The Office"
In the Communications course The Office 2.0, students learn how to create and market a show like "The Office."
15 weird roles "Lost" actors had before they became stars
Check out Evangeline Lily on Live Links, Elizabeth Mitchell on "JAG," Josh Holloway on "CSI" and Matthew Fox on "Wings." PLUS: The "Lost" interactive chart, a sneak peek at the final season and all 101 "Lost" episodes are now on Hulu.
