After the Palin episode, the Tonight Show is back on my DVR.
The NBC execs had it right this time, but there should be a place for Leno, somewhere. Perhaps more often in Vegas, where he was performing on weekends while working the Tonight Show.
Leno worked every weekend already. He has been working seventy hour weeks since he took the tonight show gig. He has publicly said that he never spent a dime of his TV money and has between $250 - $350 million in the bank.
He has no need to work and is in his sixties. He went out on top and I would be shocked to see him return to a regular TV show.
BTW Letterman has at least $350 million banked as he has had several shows form World Wide Pants, his production company and he owns both The Late Show With David Letterman and the Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson.
As a matter of fact one of the reasons that Letterman didn’t get the Tonight Show is that he had a contract that required that his production company would own any show he was on. NBC had already had Carson owning the Tonight Show production since the Seventies and they didn’t want to lose any future rights to production.