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A remarkable account of the politics and people behind NBCis calamitous make an effort to transform late night tv. When NBC chose to transfer Jay Leno into prime-time to create space for Conan O'Brien to sponsor the Today show-employment he'd been guaranteed five decades earlier-skeptics expected a train-wreck for the ages. It required, actually, just a few weeks for that serious predictions in the future true. Leno's show, panned by critics, pulled along the earnings -and the ratings -of NBC's affiliates, while ratings for Conan's fresh Today show dropped to the cheapest levels ever.