Comedian Jay Leno’s 30-year run of a TV show on one of NBCUniversal’s TV channels seems to be coming to an end.
That reports a CNBC source The Hollywood Reporter that it has decided to cancel the reality show Garage from Jay Lenowhich has been a staple of its primetime lineup since 2015.
The cancellation comes amid a larger schedule shift on the channel, with its primetime hours to focus on reality reruns of Shark cage and Undercover bossas well as original business documentaries.
Garage from Jay Lenowhere Leno shows off his massive car collection and interviews celebrity guests like President Biden and Elon Musk, also served as a landing pad for Leno when he left The tonight show in 2014.
Leno’s last Tonight Show episode was in February 2014 and CNBC ordered Garage from Jay Leno just a few months later. It originally started as an NBC.com web series and was picked up by CNBC after a special episode aired in the summer of 2014.
Last fall, the seventh and final season of the show aired.
One of the world’s most renowned car enthusiasts, Leno has featured his car collection in a number of TV shows. The comedian suffered third-degree burns in an accident in his garage late last year. His first post-accident interview was with NBC’s Today show.
Leno has been a loyal NBC player since 1992 when he took over The tonight show by Johnny Carson. That troubled succession story (Late at night host David Letterman also wanted the show and eventually launched his own competitor on CBS) led Leno to agree to hand over the show The tonight show to Conan O’Brien in 2009.
Naturally, Leno regretted that decision, and NBC, worried that Leno would jump to a competitor like Fox or ABC, kept him on the network with a 10 p.m. The Jay Leno Showwhich used a similar format to his own Tonight Show.
With NBC dealing with ratings issues, the network devised a plan to bring Leno back to 11:30 p.m. The tonight show to midnight, but O’Brien pushed back, eventually leading to a settlement where he left NBC, and Leno returned The tonight show. He officially left the show in 2014 and handed it over to Jimmy Fallon.
Leno also hosts the syndicated game show You bet your lifeproduced by Fox.
But with the end of Jay Leno’s garagethe comedian’s four-decade career at NBC seems to be coming to an end.
Unless Peacock is in the market for a car show, of course.
