Jay Leno Is the Future of TV. Seriously

His new show may seem like the oldest thing on television. But it's a radical gamble for NBC — and a turning point for broadcast

Andrew Eccles for TIME

One challenge Leno, on his new set, faces is pleasing old fans without seeming to copy The Tonight Show .

Jay Leno drove to work today in an 84-year-old car. It sits in his parking space in the NBC lot, on this sweltering summer morning in Burbank, a 1925 Model T Roadster. "That's part of my social experiment, being green," he tells me. "It's my theory that if you drive the same car for 80 years, you're more environmentally friendly than buying a new car every five or six years, even if it's a hybrid. I mean, that is the original green car. It has nothing on it. There's no water pump, no oil pump. There's no — it just has...

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