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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
David Birch-Jones
Spring 2004
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Produced by: Big Dog Productions
Network: NBC
Scheduled: Mon.-Fri., 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
Reviewed on: KMIR, Palm Springs, Calif.;
Channel 46-1
 While HDTV’s widescreen framing doesn’t add much to NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the quasilive HDTV picture quality is a knockout—visually punchy, crisp and colorful, especially during guest musical performances and shots of The Tonight Show band.
HDTV viewers will easily spot non-HDTV segments, such as Leno’s man-on-the-street interviews and other gag clips and the inevitable movie plug, when they are inserted into the program. At least the film segments are now widescreen.
Since the Johnny Carson era,
The Tonight Show has always had good sound. The current show’s fairly simple surround mix serves primarily to
gently (but not totally) separate the audience laughter and applause from the front channels’ dialogue and music, avoiding bombastic and unnecessary surround-sound effects. For a late-night talk show that most viewers watch while in bed, there’s no need for anything more soundwise.
No word as yet from the Home Office in Wahoo, Neb., about when
that other late-night show will be in HDTV.
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