TVSquad

There's been a lot of talk about Conan taking over for Jay on The Tonight Show and Jimmy Fallon taking over the 12:35 slot and ABC possibly canceling Nightline and moving Jimmy Kimmel to 11:35 and Jay moving to 10pm. But there's one person who has sort of been forgotten in all of the late-night talk show talk: Carson Daly.

It's not hard to forget Last Call with Carson Daly, mind you. If you're up at 1:35am and want to watch a good late-night talk show, Daly's isn't it. It's just so trivial and boring and unexceptional that you sit there and wonder why the hell it's even still on television. And then you realize it's almost 2am and that's probably the reason why it's still on television. If it was on a lot earlier it probably would have been canceled a while ago. That's probably the reason why Daly didn't get Conan's 12:35 slot.

But Daly wants to stick with NBC, and NBC still wants him.

They have just started negotiations (Daly's contract is up in August). Personally, I'd like to see someone else in that slot, or some other show. Late late late night TV doesn't have to be a tired wasteland. It could be the realm of some really great, innovative shows. Shows with a freedom you don't see in prime time (or earlier late night). I just don't think Daly can do that show.

Wouldn't it be great for NBC to just give a few hours of the overnight shift to some really innovative host/producers? Maybe even make it live and unpredictable, with on-the-street segments, funny short films, standup, cooking segments. A real late-night show. Hell, I'd stay up to watch that, or at the very least, record it for the next day.