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Letterman inks CBS deal for 4 more years

fred flintstone said:
Jay, you said the show brought in Johnny Carson's producer.
Who is Fred de Cordova. Or was.

Correction has been posted: It's Letterman's former producer.

When Letterman did the Late Night show on NBC, it was owned by Carson's production company. As Letterman's company now owns the Late Late show on CBS.

However, I have not watched that show since Tom Synder left.
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Tom Snyder was great. The "Tomorrow" show was pretty cutting edge back in the 70s. And his post-Letterman show was pretty good just as a change of pace away from the usual guy trading jokes with the bandleader while awaiting applause. I liked his laid-back, sit-down style. I wonder what he's doing now. I assume he has officially retired from TV. Too bad, since he would be an interesting pickup for a news channel as a counterpart to Larry King.
 
At least one individual here insists on being an historical revisionist and may not like the following reference:

"Broadway Open House was television's first late-night variety and talk show, on the NBC. It was originally to be hosted by comic Don "Creesh" Hornsby, but he died of polio two weeks before the premiere broadcast; his replacements, hosting different nights each week, were Morey Amsterdam and Jerry Lester. A regular guest was actress Jeanne Lewis as her popular character Dagmar.

The program was developed by Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, a programming vice-president at NBC who had started his career as a production assistant on the similar Fred Allen radio show Town Hall Tonight in the 1930s. After this series' fifteen-month run, from 29 May 1950 to 24 August 1951, Weaver further developed his ideas on a local show over NBC's New York station starring Steve Allen, which eventually took to the network in 1954 as The Tonight Show. Due to this connection, Broadway Open House is considered a predecessor to Tonight, and some TV history reference books consider Tonight to be a continuation of this earlier program.

The theme song was "It's Almost Like Being in Love.""

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ps......Fred deCordova is still dead
 
Tom Snyder was great. The "Tomorrow" show was pretty cutting edge back in the 70s. And his post-Letterman show was pretty good just as a change of pace away from the usual guy trading jokes with the bandleader while awaiting applause. I liked his laid-back, sit-down style. I wonder what he's doing now. I assume he has officially retired from TV. Too bad, since he would be an interesting pickup for a news channel as a counterpart to Larry King.
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Tom Snyder is battling chronic leukemia, which his doctors refer to as "treatable". After he left CBS, he began to post regularly on a website he started, and did so for about six years. Then, last year, he put a message up saying goodbye to his readers. He's pretty much dropped out of the public eye, which he, of course, is entitled to do, but that doesn't mean we don't miss him...
 
A number of famous one liners in TV attributed to Snyder, among them (and the subject of much parody on Saturday night live), "Tell us, sir, why the heck do you do it?"

Others?
 
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