WSTR Adds Antenna TV For Carson Reruns
Tribune Broadcasting today announced a multi-year agreement with Carson Entertainment Group to broadcast Johnny Carson on Antenna TV, Tribune Broadcasting’s classic TV multicast network, beginning Jan. 1, 2016. Antenna TV […]
David Brenner, who died in his New York City home Saturday at age 78 after battling cancer, was one of the most frequent visitors to the Tonight Show. He appeared as a guest and substitute host more than 150 times.
Book Offers Juicy Peek Into Johnny Carson
“Johnny Carson” (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), by Henry Bushkin Hell hath no fury like a lawyer scorned. “You must never, ever repeat a word from last night,” Johnny Carson told […]
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The project will be based on the Bill Zehme biography Carson the Magnificent: An Intimate Portrait.
Starting today, two volumes of material from the King of Late Night can be purchased from the iTunes store. A compilation edition (priced at $14.99) includes highlights from the 1960s through Carson’s emotional farewell show and his memorable next-to-last show with guest Bette Midler, which aired in 1992. A second volume ($19.99) features 16 Tonight episodes with some of Carson’s favorite guests, including Don Rickles, Jay Leno, Steve Martin, Jerry Seinfeld, Betty White, David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres in one of her first TV appearances.
Remembering Before ‘Tonight’ Left New York
I hate to add to the tonnage of words speculating on Jimmy Fallon as the post-Leno host of a Tonight show relocating to New York. But I can’t help recalling my early devotion to Tonight back when it, and Carson, called New York home — and how, before Johnny took it West, I attended a taping at Manhattan’s 30 Rock.
