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The Late Shift is the 1994 non-fiction book by reporter Bill Carter of The New York Times, chronicling the early 1990s conflict over whether David Letterman or Jay Leno would be given the honor of succeeding Johnny Carson as the host of the venerable late-night institution The Tonight Show.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A TV film based on the book aired on HBO in 1996 starring John Michael Higgins as Letterman, Daniel Roebuck as Leno, Kathy Bates as Leno's overbearing producer Helen Kushnick, and Bob Balaban as NBC executive Warren Littlefield. | |
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Alpha Bitch: Leno's manager Helen Kushnick | |
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Batman Gambit: What Ovitz pulls off: Knowing that NBC has the right to match any offer for Letterman, the agent crafts out a deal with CBS that requires Letterman be on an 11:30 PM show or else receive $50 million (a serious "poison pill"). It almost gets NBC to agree to hand The Tonight Show over to Letterman... but there was still enough wriggle room to delay the turnover long enough to screw Letterman and keep Leno on The Tonight Show. | |
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The Ace: Michael Ovitz. One of the best talent agents of that time, hired by Letterman to be a "hit-man" to get him out of his contractual woes one way or another. Played with in the TV movie where Ovitz makes his sales pitch to Letterman and Letterman's colleagues. The offer is so note-perfect and overwhelming that Letterman stumbles out of the room gasping "I feel like I was just in The Godfather!" | |
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