BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — NBC's "Tonight Show" is moving back to New York because it's the right place for its next host, producer Lorne Michaels said Tuesday.
Jimmy Fallon has "the energy of the city," said Michaels, who will produce "Tonight" when Fallon takes the show over from Jay Leno next year.
The move also is a tribute to New York itself, said Michaels, the longtime force behind Manhattan-based "Saturday Night Live." Public opinion of the city has changed since Johnny Carson took the "Tonight Show" to California in 1972, the producer said.
