Reports: Leno’s future on NBC up in the air

NEW YORK (AP) — The future of “The Jay Leno Show” was in question Thursday, even as NBC defended its prime-time talk-show star amid Web site reports the program will soon be canceled or shifted into late night.

An industry Web site called FTV declared that Leno’s show would be cancelled as soon as the Winter Olympics begin next month.

Then the TMZ Web site, citing undisclosed sources, said Leno’s show would go on hiatus Feb. 1. After the Olympics, Leno will take back the 11:30 p.m. time slot he occupied for 17 years that ended last May. This would make Leno’s successor at “The Tonight Show,” Conan O’Brien, “the odd man out,” TMZ said.