Jay books Conan; Daly renewed; Ferguson vs. Fallon

>> Jay Leno's last guest on "Tonight Show" will be the man who's taking over for him -- Conan O'Brien. Leno wraps up his 17-year-run as host of NBC's late-night show on May 29. The network says that O'Brien will be Leno's final guest. Then O'Brien steps in as "Tonight" host June 1. The move seems nicely gentlemanly and perhaps appropriate given NBC's whole late-night-psych-out-leap-frog next fall that O'Brien gamely went along with.

>> NBC has renewed "Last Call with Carson Daly," which along with Jay Leno moving to 10 p.m. firms up that the network will have four? Four?! FOUR!? four hours of talk show programming on weeknights in the fall.

>> Also, CBS announced that "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" topped NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in total viewers for the first time last week, with Ferguson pulling 1.9 million viewers to Fallon's ... um ... wait. Says here it's Ferguson with 1.87 vs. 1.86 million for Fallon. OK, hold up. If the hosts were running the 100 meters, sure CBS, that's a win. In ratings, that's a tie. It's like the difference of one Nielsen family falling asleep with the TV on. Still, Ferguson is up 10% in viewers season to date. -- The Associated Press contributed to this report