{"id":1656,"date":"2009-07-23T13:15:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T17:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2009-07-23T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T17:15:46","slug":"details-on-the-jay-leno-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/07\/23\/details-on-the-jay-leno-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Details on &#8220;The Jay Leno Show&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As NBC prepares its new comedy experiment &#8220;The Jay Leno Show,&#8221; details on the &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; veteran&#8217;s new talk show are finally being released.<\/p>\n<p>Set to air in primetime (10PM) five nights a week, &#8220;Leno&#8221; features a new director in Liz Plonka (she replaces Ellen Brown).  Formally of &#8220;Late Night with Conan O&#8217;Brien,&#8221; Plonka has also worked on &#8220;Mind of Mencia,&#8221; &#8220;Talkshow with Spike Feresten&#8221; and &#8220;The Showbiz Show with David Spade.&#8221;  She also served as a fill-in director for several &#8220;Tonight Show with Jay Leno&#8221; episodes.<\/p>\n<p>While Kevin Eubanks returns as the band leader and musical director, John Melendez will not resume his &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; gig as Leno&#8217;s announcer.  Instead, Melendez will join the nineteen-person writing staff.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Goitia is the supervising producer, while Leno, Jack Coen and Stephanie Ross are producing.  Coen will also supervise writing for the nightly monologue.<\/p>\n<p>The show launches on September 14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=jay leno&#038;iid=5341579\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/e\/b\/e\/1\/Jaguar_XJ_Launch_e949.jpg?adImageId=1989604&#038;imageId=5341579\" width=\"320\" height=\"516\"  border=\"0\" alt=\"Jaguar XJ Launch Party - Outside Arrivals\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Details on &quot;The Jay Leno Show&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As NBC prepares its new comedy experiment &quot;The Jay Leno Show,&quot; details on the &quot;Tonight Show&quot; veteran&#039;s new talk show are finally being released. 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