EXCLUSIVE: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is making some executive changes.Deadline understands that showrunner Jamie Granet-Bederman is stepping down and will be replaced by The Drew Barrymore Show exec producer Chris Miller.Granet-Bederman, who has worked with Fallon for 13 years, is transitioning to develop a number of new projects with the late-night host, who has been ramping up his non-Tonight Show projects such as musical gameshow That’s My Jam via his Electric Hot Dog shingle.Granet-Bederman has been running the NBC show since November 2020, when she took over from Gavin Purcell.“These last 13 years working with Jimmy have been such a gift.
It’s been an honor to have helped him launch not one but two late-night shows, and I will be forever grateful to my amazing Tonight Show family,” Granet-Bederman told Deadline. “And as lucky as I’ve been to have had this experience, I’m even luckier to now explore new horizons with Jimmy.
Watching his rise firsthand has been such a privilege, and I can’t wait for what’s next.”Miller was most recently an exec producer on syndicated daytime talk show The Drew Barrymore Show.
He also previously worked with Barrymore, who starred with Fallon in 2005 film Fever Pitch, at her production company Flower Films.
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