Carson's Days Are Numbered

With all the changes taking place on the late-night talk show circuit, will Carson Daly still have a job?

NBC has started conversations with Daly to keep him on board as host of Last Call. Currently, his deal expires this August.

After the peacock network’s decision to move Jay Leno into primetime at 10 pm, many are wondering if it’ll make sense to keep Daly’s show on the air. That would mean there’d be four talk shows back-to-back on NBC.

Will Daly even want to stay on? Is he still upset that NBC chose Jimmy Fallon to replace Conan O’Brien instead of him?

NBC’s mouthpieces say that Daly wants to stay.

Rick Ludwin, NBC’s executive VP for late night and primetime series, said “We have begun conversations with Carson. We do want to continue with Carson Daly, both with ‘Last Call’ and with [his] New Year’s Eve [specials]. We’re going through the budgetary process with all of our shows. There are new budgetary realities. … It’s tough. We want to keep [Carson] going as long as we can make the budget work.”

We smell a lame budget excuse in the works!

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