Jim Bell, a longtime NBC Sports executive producer and showrunner of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” for the past year, is leaving NBC.
“Last fall, after executive producing a successful Winter Olympics in South Korea and the men’s World Cup tournament in Russia, the company asked me if I would become the executive in charge of production for ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ while I was also preparing for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo,” Bell said on Monday in a statement. “As has been the case for my nearly 30 years at NBC, I said yes to their request, adding only that I would commit for a year and we would review the situation at that time.”