Calling him "the best there is," NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt says Jimmy Fallon will stay on as The Tonight Show host at least through 2021. Fallon has held the job for slightly more than a year.
NBC Signs Fallon On For Six More Years
Just a few months after Jimmy Fallon marked his first anniversary as host of The Tonight Show, NBC has signed him for six more years.
Calling him “the best there is,” NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt said Fallon, who turns 41 next month, will occupy the Tonight host chair until at least 2021.
Speaking to TV critics on Thursday, Greenblatt also announced that Rihanna will join The Voice as key adviser to the panel of judges, who will be Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Pharrell and Gwen Stefani.
He said new additions to the cast of the holiday production of The Wiz Live! include Hairspray co-star Elijah Kelley (in the role of the Scarecrow), singer-songwriter-actor Ne-Yo (as the Tin Man) and Oscar-winning songwriter and actor Common, who will play the Gatekeeper to Emerald City.
Previously announced cast members in the musical production, airing live Dec. 3, include Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, David Alan Grier, Uzo Aduba, Amber Riley, Stephanie Mills and Shanice Williams as Dorothy.
Greenblatt also had two words on whether Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump would ever return as host of The Celebrity Apprentice: “Absolutely not.”
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Greenblatt said the show will not be back next season, but will return in the future with a new host. He didn’t speculate on whom that host might be, but said, “We’re obviously looking for a host who will make noise and is a big personality.”
Comments (1)
Christina Fleming says:
August 14, 2015 at 10:08 am
If NBC think he is the best, they have obviously not watched the Late Laye show with James Corden. James is 10 times more entertaining, 10 times funnier and not so self absorbed. It is the best late show since Carson and maybe better.