Chris Miller Joins As Showrunner, Jamie Granet-Bederman Exits – CB

EXCLUSIVE: The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon is making some government adjustments.

CB understands that showrunner Jamie Granet-Bederman is stepping down and shall be changed by The Drew Barrymore Present exec producer Chris Miller.

Granet-Bederman, who has labored with Fallon for 13 years, is transitioning to develop various new initiatives with the late-night host, who has been ramping up his non-Tonight Present initiatives similar to musical gameshow That’s My Jam by way of his Electrical Scorching Canine shingle.

Granet-Bederman has been operating the NBC present since November 2020, when she took over from Gavin Purcell.

“These final 13 years working with Jimmy have been such a present. It’s been an honor to have helped him launch not one however two late-night exhibits, and I shall be eternally grateful to my wonderful Tonight Present household,” Granet-Bederman informed CB. “And as fortunate as I’ve been to have had this expertise, I’m even luckier to now discover new horizons with Jimmy. Watching his rise firsthand has been such a privilege, and I can’t watch for what’s subsequent.”

Miller was most just lately an exec producer on syndicated daytime discuss present The Drew Barrymore Present. He additionally beforehand labored with Barrymore, who starred with Fallon in 2005 movie Fever Pitch, at her manufacturing firm Flower Movies. He begins in Might.

Miller exec produced sequence similar to VH1’s Powerful Love, Esquire Community’s Knife Combat and Netflix’s Santa Clarita Eating regimen at Flower, and likewise produced motion pictures together with Joyful Camp, Whip It, Animal and upcoming The Stand-In.

“It has been an absolute pleasure to work subsequent to Drew for the previous 23 years. She’s going to stay one in every of my closest buddies and confidants as I begin this unbelievable journey with Jimmy and The Tonight Present. I’m past grateful to be welcomed into probably the most iconic tv establishment in historical past,” Miller informed CB.

It comes after Nedaa Sweiss, who was co-showrunner alongside Granet-Bederman, left on the finish of December. Sweiss, who was all the time deliberate to assist out in an interim capability, is growing a brand new comedy sequence with NBC and is engaged on various different improvement initiatives.

Granet-Bederman is the most recent high-profile exec to go away late-night in the previous couple of weeks; The Late Present with Stephen Colbert exec producer Chris Licht was just lately named boss of CNN. The CBS present has not changed Licht with various different staffers taking over a few of his duties.

It tees up an attention-grabbing battle on the prime of late-night. The Late Present has topped the scores for the final 5 years with a complete common of two.95 million viewers for the 2020/21 season. Jimmy Kimmel Reside!, whose future can also be unclear on condition that host Kimmel has ruminated on leaving the area, got here in second within the scores, beating The Tonight Present for the primary time within the ABC present’s 18 yr historical past.

The Tonight Present carried out nicely within the 18-49 demo final yr and, in accordance with NBC, was the one late-night present to extend complete viewership year-over-year between the 2021 and 2022 season.

There’s optimism inside 30 Rock that The Tonight Present can rebound additional within the scores, notably in mild of Joe Biden turning into President, Licht’s departure and the potential exit of Kimmel. Colbert was undoubtedly boosted beneath the Trump Presidency, the place his fixed ribbing and imitations of the previous President made him a preferred look ahead to left-leaning late-night viewers.

The Tonight Present was renewed for an additional 5 years in Might 2021 after Fallon renewed his contract in 2020.

Granet-Bederman started working with Fallon on Late Night time with Jimmy Fallon. She beforehand ran the expertise division of The Tonight Present as a producer, having been a supervising producer on Late Night time with Jimmy Fallon.

The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon is produced by Common Tv and Broadway Video with Lorne Michaels as exec producer.