{"id":1422,"date":"2014-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/2014\/09\/03\/mtv-to-air-the-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2014-09-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T00:00:00","slug":"mtv-to-air-the-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/mtv-to-air-the-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"MTV to Air The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tJOHANNESBURG: MTV has picked up the exclusive African TV broadcast rights for the U.S. series <em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon <\/em>from NBCUniversal International Television Distribution.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe show will begin airing in Africa as of September 24 in a daily slot. <em>The Tonight Show <\/em>has been a U.S. TV institution for almost 60 years; Fallon took over hosting duties about five months ago.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDillon Khan, the channel director for MTV and VH1 in South Africa, said, &ldquo;MTV and Jimmy Fallon have a long history of collaboration, going back to 2002 when he hosted the Video Music Awards. We expect <em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em> to form a staple part of our audience&rsquo;s daily viewing, with each show driving conversations among fans from the swings in the playground to the water cooler at work and everywhere in between.&rdquo;<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: MTV has picked up the exclusive African TV broadcast rights for the U.S. series The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon from NBCUniversal International Television Distribution. The show will begin airing in Africa as of September 24 in a daily slot. The Tonight Show has been a U.S. TV institution for almost 60 years; Fallon &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MTV to Air The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MTV to Air The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in Africa . JOHANNESBURG, September 3: MTV has picked up the exclusive African TV broadcast rights for the U.S. series The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon from NBCUniversal International Television Distribution. . 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