Fallon Revs Up ‘Tonight Show’ for Detroit

Jimmy Fallon takes NBC’s “Tonight Show” to Detroit for a special episode, one of the handful of non-traditional broadcasts of the program that he performs in the fall.

The Late-Night Host will stick an episode of ‘Tonight’ in the Detroit Opera House on Sunday 14 September and it will be broadcast the next night, September 15 at NBC. Ford Motor Co., an old sponsor of “Tonight”, supports the special broadcast. The large car maker has been a backer of the facility and his art mission for more than two decades.

Fallon also creates special ‘Tonight’ broadcasts, intended to broadcast on Sunday evening after NBC’s ‘Sunday Night Football’ and leaves local news about the various affiliated companies. Those editions are broadcast once a month, from September 21. Matthew McConaughey and Eric Church will serve as guests.

This is the second year that Fallon has taken the special post-football broadcasts. He also led a unique “Tonight Show” in 2018 in Minneapolis after an NBC broadcast from Super Bowl Lii.

Other late-night hosts have customized editions of their program operated after special events. In 2024, CBS sent special editions of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “After Midnight” after the broadcast of the network of Super Bowl LVIII.

“The Tonight Show in the lead role Jimmy Fallon” is executive produced by Lorne Michaels and produced by Chris Miller and Gerard Bradford. Miller serves as a showrunner of the program. In most cases “The Tonight Show” tires for a live studio audience of Studio 6B in 30 Rockefeller Center.