Jim Bell, veteran producer at NBC, has moved to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.He will be executive-in-charge and showrunner on the … Bell has been with NBC since 1990 as a producer and has worked on every Olympics for the network since the 1992 Summer Games. Right now I am looking forward to a great show in Texas.”Bell has been with NBC since 1990 as a producer and has worked on every Olympics for the network since the 1992 Summer Games. He was named president of NBC Olympics Production & Programming in 2017, and last year took on showrunning duties for “Tonight Show.”“Jim’s imprint at ‘The Tonight Show’ was substantial and will be long-lasting,” said George Cheeks, vice chairman, NBCUniversal Content Studios, and who oversees late night for NBC Entertainment.
Jim Bell, who has served as showrunner on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for the past year, is stepping down. All rights reserved.
All rights reserved. Those thoughts are part of larger ones I have been having about my career, and what has emerged for me is a strong desire to delve into something new — to build on my experience in news, sports, and entertainment so I can broaden and deepen my leadership role in the content universe.”“Along with my Olympic colleagues, we have positioned NBC Sports for an incredible Summer Olympics next year, and so I believe the timing is perfect for me to forge a new path,” Bell said. Protesters and activists from UltraViolet stormed the NBC headquarters in New York City demanding Comcast and NBC executives take action and responsibility for allegations made in Ronan Farrow's book 'Catch and Kill.
Here was a person whose tenure and gravitas at NBC rivaled that of Lorne Michaels, the late-night impresario who has ultimate oversight of “Tonight,” “Late Night With Seth Meyers” and, of course, “Saturday Night Live.” Bell wasn’t just a producer. Jim Bell, the veteran producer who has supervised NBC mainstays ranging from “Today” to its Olympics broadcasts, will leave the company, parting ways after spending a year as the execut… Fallon’s “Tonight” doesn’t just generate advertising revenue for NBC.
Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. ” We want to thank Jim for his numerous contributions to our NBC Sports and Olympic broadcasts, particularly since becoming the executive producer starting with London in 2012,” said Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBCUniversal’s cable, sports and news assets, and Pete Bevacqua, president of NBC Sports, in a statement.
Bell was appointed to “The Tonight Show” position in October 2018 and will act as showrunner. New York, Bell is leaving NBC after a tenure that spanned almost. —Jim Bell in interview with Wired, on 2000-11-21. Fallon’s strength has been in shaking up the late-night model , often by finding new ways to interact with celebrities that often go viral. He was instrumental in the show’s earliest moments in its focus on interactive and social elements, and his return comes at a moment when many of TV’s late-night programs have begun to focus on metrics other than linear audience ratings. He was at the helm of “Today” when fan favorite Ann Curry was shown the door with a controversial, teary-eyed on-air goodbye. That program has in the last two years thrived on a mix of topical humor, As Colbert found success riding the Trump-dominated news cycle.