Late Night with Rove O’Brien?
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UPDATE: Variety has since reported Jimmy Fallon to be announced as Conan’s replacement.
Rove has been tipped by top showbiz publication Variety as a possible contender to replace Conan O’Brien in 2009.
O’Brien will replace Jay Leno when he steps down from the Tonight show.
As Variety notes “Some of the names floated for O’Brien’s replacement have included Jon Stewart, Dane Cook and Australian television star Rove McManus. As one concerned blogger pleaded, ‘Anyone but Carson Daly or Jimmy Fallon.'”
However, as impressive as the nod is, transition may not be so easy. For starters, Leno is said to be having second thoughts about his intention to vacate the role.
“…it’s unclear what will happen with Late Night, and the show’s replacement may get caught up in an expensive, ego-laden game of musical talkshow chairs” says Variety.
“Leno, still on top in the ratings, appears happy with his latenight gig and reportedly has misgivings about leaving Tonight in 2009. ABC and Fox have hinted that they want to scoop up Leno if and when the time comes, while NBC, which lost an embittered Letterman to CBS when he was passed over to replace Carson, has suggested it wants to keep Leno in some capacity.
Source: Variety
10 Responses
Jimmy Fallon would be a nice choice. =)
^ What he said 🙂
Got to side with the human dree on this one. Rove is about as unfunny as it gets and it’s an embarrasment to australia just to see him on US tv. His show is painful and often cringe worthy stuff and only held afloat by guys like Hughsie who is actually funny & people with sad taste.
Dree, if you think Variety will source names from chat rooms in a news article I think you need to take another look at Variety.
Variety has cred. The fact they even mentioned an Aussie host makes it newsworthy for this site. They don’t always name sources obviously. They don’t have to. They’re Variety and with their history as the showbiz bible that’s good enough.
Nobody said he was getting it. Nobody said he should get it. He’s been reported by Variety in a league with big US names. In my book that’s actually news enough.
The news is in Variety putting McManus in the article itself, regardless of how likely, or indeed how credible, anybody in Oz views the notion.
News Ltd publications also picked up on his mention, but failed to note that Leno has reportedly had second thoughts on leaving Tonight, hence putting some more context on the landscape here.
Is this news? Or did you just post it for the lulz?
Honestly, this is just a delirious fantasy of Rove himself.
I’m more surprised to see Dane Cook’s name on the list… imagine him 5 nights a week jumping around talking to celebs about himself… it burns it burns!
From IMDB:
Report: Fallon To Replace O’Brien On ‘Late Night’
Jimmy Fallon has been tapped to replace Conan O’Brien on NBC’s Late Night when O’Brien takes over hosting duties on The Tonight Show from Jay Leno next year, Fox.com entertainment columnist Roger Friedman reported today (Thursday), saying it was “a done deal.” Friedman, who cited no sources, said that NBC plans to make a formal announcement around May 11th when it presents its fall schedule to advertisers.
It would be really awesome if Rove was the successor. I would hope that whatever ch has the rights to Conan here would screen it.
I don’t want to be too harsh, but is Rove really being looked at for US TV as a late night host, there would be many people in front of him and these guys have to work hard to even get a look, maybe another gold logie will get him the gig, or not.