With all the craziness swirling around NBC’s late night lineup, I thought it’d be a good time to check out the 1996 TV movie The Late Shift. The Late Shift dramatizes the, uh.. drama that went down between David Letterman and Jay Leno when Johnny Carson left the Tonight Show in 1992. I heard David Letterman mention something about Jay Leno hiding in the closet and eavesdropping on NBC execs as they decided who would be the new host. Paul Shaffer mentioned that it was depicted in The Late Shift, so I figured I’d bump it to the top of my Netflix queue. Apparently others had the same idea. Oh well, My Kid Could Paint That is supposed to be pretty good.
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Since that movie won’t be arriving in the mail anytime soon, just check it out here:
