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THE WAR FOR LATE NIGHT
by Carter, Bill
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 067002208X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670022083
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Viking Adult, 2010, 2010. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo, hardcover, small remainder mark on outer pages at bottom else VG in good blue pictorial dj. first edition, first printing. 405 pp. "The quest to take johnny's place." When NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O'Brien to host the Tonight show-a job he had been promised five years earlier-skeptics anticipated a train wreck for the ages.
Synopsis
The New York Times bestselling author of The Late Shift delivers "a boisterous, two-timing, high-stakes drama about the business of comedy" ( The Associated Press ). No one is more uniquely suited to document television's latest late- night travesty than veteran media reporter and bestselling author, Bill Carter. NBC's CEO, Jeff Zucker, had it all worked out when he moved Jay Leno from behind the desk at The Tonight Show , and handed the reins over to Conan O'Brien. But as everyone knows, his decision was a spectacular failure. Ratings plummeted, affiliates were enraged-and when Zucker tried to put everything back the way it was, that plan backfired as well. In candid detail, Carter charts the vortex that sucked in-not just Leno and O'Brien-but also Letterman, Stewart, Fallon, Kimmel, and Ferguson as frantic agents and network executives tried to manage a tectonic shift in television's most beloved institution.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66589
- Title
- THE WAR FOR LATE NIGHT
- Author
- Carter, Bill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 067002208X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670022083
- Publisher
- Viking Adult, 2010
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
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