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FTN Jay Leno Confirmation
paul_hadley
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Hi there,
Thanks for your e-mail. I am sorry to tell you that The Tonight Show with Jay Leno has been removed from the FTN schedules. This is due to a dramatic slump in ratings over the last few months in its 10pm slot back in July and now in the later slot of 12.50am. We have enjoyed airing the show over the last few years and hope you will continue to enjoy FTN without the show in our line-up. I will make sure your comments are passed on to our channel editors.
Best Wishes,
FTN
Surely it had better ratings that some of the other crap they show?
Thanks for your e-mail. I am sorry to tell you that The Tonight Show with Jay Leno has been removed from the FTN schedules. This is due to a dramatic slump in ratings over the last few months in its 10pm slot back in July and now in the later slot of 12.50am. We have enjoyed airing the show over the last few years and hope you will continue to enjoy FTN without the show in our line-up. I will make sure your comments are passed on to our channel editors.
Best Wishes,
FTN
Surely it had better ratings that some of the other crap they show?
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Maybe if they didnt keep moving it around then people would have kept watching it. Moving it to the middle of the night and then saying it is getting low ratings in stupid. I'm sure if ITV1 moved Coronation Street to 1am in the morning ratings would go down!
Yeah. LOL. They should have it at 11.30 or midnight, as ITV2 should do with David Letterman. I love those two shows, and now I am left without Jay Leno, but I think CNBC Europe on Cable show some episodes of Jay Leno (like, on e a week on the weekends).
It probably cost more, too, though.
It was literally the only thing I watched on FTN, and usually I watched around 4 times a week.
Now I don't put FTN on at all.
Dave
You can see 3 shows a week on CNBC and you can catch Late Night with Conan O' Brien there too. Weekends from 8pm.
(Shouldn't this be in Channels and Pragramming??)
Hope they bring it back, or another channel buys the rights (BBC3, to compete with Letterman?)
Yes, same here. I used to watch Leno quite often and now I might as well not have FTN at all. Nothing else on the channel interests me.
What else do we have on there - those blokes trying to do a version of Jackass - no thanks - they are getting paid for acting like jerks (and probably signing on too!).
Oh I forgot we have the televisual treat that is Most Haunted! :eek:
FTN will be removed from my favourites on my set-top box and will join JazzFM & Kiss as part of "the never to be even flicked to by mistake" club!!
Could you tell me/us who you contacted and how?
I would like to express my feelings about its absence as well - perhaps if we (those who enjoyed Leno on FTN) all send our thoughts it might be put back on the "agenda" at the next FTN channel programming meeting.
Fact is, Ftn save money by not buying a show nobody watches, which means they could import other programming which may prove more successful.
It happened with Letterman on Sky One, Paramount and ITV2. Even BBC One couldn't make a success of Letterman when he did some shows from the UK, so what chance does Ftn stand with Leno (arguably the same style of show.)
But have you seen the Ftn viewing figures. They are LOW. And Leno was doing well on their channel, becasue lets face it its not that hard to get more viewers than most of the current programmes on Ftn.
I still believe that Leno was too expensive for the channel, and although doing better than most of their current programmes (which cost them nothing to air because Flextech made them for their other channels) it would have needed to have pulled in something like 200,000 viewers each night - which on Ftn is not going to happen.
Nice idea, but BBC3 have a stict limit on the amount of US content it can broadcast. Almost 5 hours a week, every week of Leno would use it all up just about.
Is there anything we can do to get FTN to show it again?
Online petition? Email?
Any ideas?
gaffer
Sorry for the lateness of my reply.
I emailed enquiries@ftn.tv
Message:
Dear NBC, do you have plans to bring the Tonight Show back to England 5 nights a week, as the current channel (Ftn) on cable has currently decided to remove it from its schedules and not buy anymore rights to it. And you can only see about 3 shows a week on CNBC Europe on cable in England. Many thanks in advance.
I have emailed both FTN and NBC. Its worth doing as if nobody says anything then you can't expect them to review/consider it.
Those who miss the show can only hope that it returns to freeview.
When did he used to be on the BBC? When his old show was on?
brooksielad - no problem. Hopefully someone will listen to us.
Maybe we could get one of these online petitions and post the link to FTN/NBC...
can anyone start one?
gaffer
Its CNBC, not MSNBC. There are some channels around Europe that air Leno daily, but i dont know them off hand.