August 13, 2015 18:34:09 GMT
'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' will carry on for six more years as NBC has extended Fallon's contract through 2021.
is going to stay with NBC and host the network's late-night show for six more years. The "" alum has just been locked for "The Tonight Show" through 2021, the Peacock's boss Robert Greenblatt announces.
Fallon is "the face of NBC in a lot of ways," Greenblatt says. " 'The Tonight Show' has always been an institution, but he's remade it into a destination for the largest audience anywhere in late night," the executive adds. "It's the role he was born to play."
"Jimmy has been an important member of the NBCUniversal family for 17 years," NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke says. "He is extraordinarily talented, hard-working and brings a level of creativity and energy every single day that is simply unmatched in television."
"" debuted February 2014, replacing the one hosted by . It becomes the highest-rated late-night talk show in the United States, drawing an average audience of 3.8 million people.
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