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The Late Shift (1996)

David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show.

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Pete M 08 Jun 2011

OK, I am adding this movie to my Hollywood Confidential list, even though it's not about a crime. It's about how David Letterman cam to leave NBC for CBS, and it's really interesting and well done. Now someone needs to make a movie about how NBC tricked Conan into breaking his contract, so they could replace him with Jimmy Fallon. Oh you think all of that happened the way NBC says it did? Now who's being naive?

Corey G 01 Jun 2008

I've watched this movie at least ten times. It's really cheaply executed and there's a really ill-advised cameo from some real life producer who delivers one of the worst performances every captured on screen, but the story and the lead performances are really fascinating (especially Kathy Bates as Leno's agent). It's also like that it's about top-shelf comedians and yet no one in the movie is funny at all.

Asa C 10 Mar 2008

This is a thoroughly engrossing dramatization of the battle between David Letterman and Jay Leno for "The Tonight Show" hosting duties following Johnny Carson's retirement. John Michael Higgins (of many a Christopher Guest film) is tremendous as David Letterman.

Patrick F 06 Apr 2011

While the portrayals of Leno and Letterman both border on SNL caricature, the story here is absolutely fascinating. I love behind-the-scenes show business stuff, and this movie delivered what I was looking for.

Frank G 26 Feb 2010

This explains a lot to why NBC truly means "Never Believe your Contract". This was very enjoyable and I thought it was well cast. I still believe that Leno was always better than Letterman and has clearly proved to be just that from the ratings.