As most reading probably already know, Jay Leno is not retiring but rather moving up earlier in the night to a daily 10 p.m. spot, washing away NBC’s entire late-night show line-up.

Now Variety’s reporting that member’s NBC’s affiliate board (members of a board of several companies that own different portions of the whole of NBC) are getting a little nervous. And rightfully so.

From the Variety article “NBC affiliates nervous about Leno” by Michael Schneider:”Peacock affils are nervously waiting to see how NBC’s plans to strip Leno on weeknights at 10 p.m. evolve — and more importantly, how it impacts their business.At least one station — Boston’s WHDH — is already threatening not to air Leno at all, preferring to run local news in the hour instead.For Peacock affils, the Leno experiment couldn’t have come at a more difficult time.In an age where advertising is drying up, revenues are shrinking and viewers have plenty of other news options, the Leno move is making plenty of station execs jittery.
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By Dan Mecca

If honesty is the best quality, Adventureland is the gem of the cinematic year so far. Written and directed by Greg Mottola (the guy who directed Superbad) this dramedy is a throwback in every way – from the setting of the film (summer 1987) to the laid-back comic delivery. There’s barely anything that can be defined as a joke in this thing.

For the most part, all the movie’s laughs are natural and observatory rather than fed and forced. This is not to say that the latter doesn’t work – see I Love You, Man for proof of this, a film that feeds jokes consistently with a natural rhythm that does not overwhelm.

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