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“Tonight Show” is reduced to four episodes per week and will be repeated on Friday
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“Tonight Show” is reduced to four episodes per week and will be repeated on Friday

Jimmy Fallon and other late-night hosts are moving to a new program that will only run Monday through Thursday

The Tonight Show will be reduced to four new episodes per week, with Jimmy Fallon joining his fellow late-night hosts in airing repeats on Fridays.

While Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live And Late Night with Seth Meyers had all stopped producing new episodes for Friday nights in recent years, The Tonight Show remained the outlier, airing new content for five nights (although Fallon’s Friday episodes were often taped on Thursdays).

But after 60 years with episodes five nights a week, The Tonight Show will now only be broadcast from Monday to Thursday, with Friday evening reserved for repeats, diversity This is reported citing NBC’s recent cost-cutting measures in the cable television era, which so far have included the elimination of Seth Meyers’ house band and the complete elimination of a late-night program at 1:35 a.m.

“That’s the reality of broadcasting and a shrinking market – streaming is eating here and YouTube is eating there,” said Eli Janney, keyboardist and co-music director of Meyers’ 8G Band, in June. “Streaming isn’t making money either. So budgets have been getting cut more and more everywhere.”

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(CBS also replaced James Corden’s late-night program with the game show After midnight.)

While The Tonight Show While new episodes aired last week, Friday’s program was a repeat, a trend that began when Fallon’s show aired this summer. Fallon and the Tonight Show won’t be going anywhere for at least the next four years, as the host extended his contract with NBC this summer to remain at the helm of The Tonight Show through 2028.

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