Jay Leno will end his 16 year career on “The Tonight Show” on May 29th of next year in 2009 will be his final episode. Conan O’ Brien takes over June 1st of next year.

Jay Leno announced that he is done with NBC completely, but NBC still feels that they are not ready to let Leno go yet. NBC wants him to do another show that is not late night TV related but it’s all up to Jay. Old reruns of the “Tonight Show” will air in between May 29th and June 1st until Jimmy Fallon takes over Conan in the Spring.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117989257.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

Sweet news. Good riddance to Jay too. I never liked Jay Leno at all. I can’t wait for Conan to be on an hour early next year! wOOt!

Kev