Bio
William J. Carter
William J. Carter joined The New York Times as a national media reporter in 1989. In addition to his work for the newspaper, he has written numerous articles for The New York Times Magazine, including four cover stories.
Mr. Carter has covered the television
industry for more than 25 years. From 1975 until 1989, he was a television critic for The Baltimore Sun, writing four to six columns, reports and features per week, as well as a weekly television sports column. From 1973 to 1975, Mr. Carter was assistant foreign editor at The Sun, substituting at times as foreign editor, national editor and news editor.
Mr. Carter's articles have also appeared in TV Guide, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Newsday, Advertising
Age, The Washington Journalism Review and Electronic Media. He has been a guest on many television and radio programs including "Nightline," "Today," "Good Morning
America," "The Larry King Show," ESPN Sports Century and The MSNBC News
with Brian Williams.
Mr. Carter is the author of the 1994 best-selling book, The Late
Shift: Letterman, Leno and the Network Battle for the Night. He is also the co-author of Monday Night Mayhem: The Inside Story of ABC's Monday Night Football.
Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Fallon’s ability to deliver versatile, standout performances has allowed him to
join the ranks as one of the “Saturday Night Live” alumni at the forefront of a diverse
lineup of television and film projects, while always staying grounded in his stand-up
roots.
Most recently, NBC named Mr. Fallon as the replacement for Conan O’Brien
on “Late Night.” The show premiered on March 2, 2009, and in the months leading
up to the broadcast debut, Mr. Fallon produced video blogs that ran online nightly at
12:30 a.m. ET on NBC.com.
He first garnered attention in 1998 when he joined the cast
of “Saturday Night Live” and quickly became an audience favorite for his impressions,
spot-on musical impressions and memorable recurring characters.
In 2000, Mr. Fallon
became the co-anchor of the popular segment “Weekend Update” alongside Tina Fey.
During his six-year stint on “SNL,” Mr. Fallon ventured off into other television roles,
including his role of Second Lieutenant George Rice in “Band of Brothers.”
He also
hosted the MTV Movie Awards in 2001 and 2005 and the MTV Video Music Awards
in 2002. In 2003, he earned raves while guest hosting for David Letterman.
Mr. Fallon
made his feature film debut in Cameron Crowe's “Almost Famous,” and has subsequently
appeared in “Anything Else,” “Taxi,” “Fever Pitch,” “The Year of Getting to Know Us”
and “Whip It.”
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