Nikki Finke says "On tonight's monologue, Jay Leno sounds upset, even going so far to say he has 'trust' issues with NBC right now." I watched it and he didn't sound upset to me. He sounded like a comic who was happy he had some good lines about a bad situation. The "trust" line was one of them. It's called a joke.
She says the new configuration — Jay for a half-hour at 11:35 followed by The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien for an hour at 12:05 — is not a done deal; that both Jay and Conan are resisting. That's probably true but I suspect they're resisting to try and get better terms and concessions, and that neither has a strong hope of keeping their current positions.
As I said earlier, the key to whether the rumors of Jay's 10 PM show ending were true would be if NBC was asking suppliers to pitch replacement shows for that time slot. That's apparently happening…so there you have it: The end of the big prime time experiment. Those who were hoping it would flop so they could sell shows in that time slot or find jobs on those shows may now rejoice. And let's all see what happens tomorrow. This is fun.