Comedian Jay Leno's 30-year career with a TV show on one of NBCUniversal's channels TV appears to be coming to an end.
A CNBC source told The Hollywood Reporter that the network has decided to cancel the reality show Jay Leno's Garage, which had been a staple of primetime programming since 2015.
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The cancelation comes as part of a larger programming shift by the network, which will focus on primetime reality reruns of Shark Tank and Undercover Boss, as well as original business documentaries.
Jay Leno's Garage, where Leno shows off his massive car collection and interviews celebrity guests like President Biden and Elon Musk, also served as Leno's landing spot when he left The Tonight Show in 2014.
Leno's final Tonight Show episode aired in February 2014, and CNBC ordered Jay Leno's Garage just a few months later. The series began as a web series on NBC.com and was then picked up by CNBC after a special episode in the summer of 2014 found success.
The seventh and final season of the series aired last fall.
One of the world's best-known car enthusiasts, Leno has featured his car collection in a number of TV shows. The comedian suffered third-degree burns in an accident in his garage late last year. He gave his first interview after the accident on NBC's Today program.
Leno has been loyal to NBC since 1992, when he took over The Tonight Show from Johnny Carson. That difficult succession story (late-night host David Letterman also wanted to take over the show and eventually founded his own competitor on CBS) led Leno to agree to hand over The Tonight Show to Conan O'Brien in 2009.
Of course, Leno ended up regretting that decision, and NBC, fearing that Leno would jump ship to a competitor like Fox or ABC, kept him at the network with a 10 p.m. show, The Jay Leno Show, which had a similar format to The Tonight Show.
As NBC struggled with ratings problems, the network hatched a plan to move Leno back to 11:30 p.m. and move The Tonight Show to midnight, but O'Brien resisted, eventually reaching a deal in which he left NBC and Leno returned to The Tonight Show. He officially left the show in 2014, handing it over to Jimmy Fallon.
Leno also hosts the syndicated game show You Bet Your Life, produced by Fox.
But with the end of Jay Leno's Garage, the comedian's four-decade career at NBC appears to be coming to an end.
Unless Peacock is looking for a new car show, of course.
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