NBC chairman Robert Greenblatt is saying that he hopes Jay Leno will stay with NBC in some capacity after he departs The Tonight Show on February 6. Word from inside Leno's camp is that while Jay ain't talking about what he might do, no one thinks being on the NBC payroll after September is an option. Further word from within is that Jay going to CNN has never been a possibility; that Jay would certainly not go there as long as Jeff Zucker was in charge and probably not if Zucker wasn't. We here at newsfromme are still curious as to what Jay's going to do and are open to the possibility that at this moment, even he doesn't know.
In the meantime, NBC has announced which musical they'll do live this Christmas, hoping to repeat the success of The Sound of Music. It'll be Peter Pan. That strikes me as a disappointing selection if only because it breaks so little new ground…but I suppose that won't matter to millions of families who'll watch it together. But there already is at least one very good video version of that show — the one starring Cathy Rigby. You can buy it for five dollars right this minute. There's more than one if you love the Mary Martin version…which I did as a kid but didn't as I got older. I suppose getting older is kind of a betrayal of what the show stands for.