Officially introduced Monday as the successor to Conan O'Brien on NBC's Late Night when O'Brien moves over to the Tonight show next year, Jimmy Fallon joked that his elementary school principal, Mr. Nostradamus, had listed him in his kindergarten yearbook as "most likely to take over for David Letterman." As many people are aware, Mr. Nostradamus has been a bit off with other predictions over the years, but TV writers had been predicting for weeks that Fallon would be named Late Night's host (and, of course, Letterman did indeed once host the show himself, jumping to CBS after the powers-that-be at NBC passed him over for Jay Leno to succeed Johnny Carson.) Still up in the air is the question of what will happen to Leno when the game of musical chairs plays out next year (precisely when that will be has not yet been disclosed). At Monday's news conference, NBC Entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman said that he was looking to find an inducement to keep Leno at NBC, but he acknowledged that he might not be able to do so. "I think it's a reach," he said.See Also
