The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Comes To Free To Air TV

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is coming to free-to-air TV in Australia, it has been announced today, with the American talk show finding a new Australian home at ABC2.

The show in its current format is brand new, as Fallon has only taken over from stalwart host Jay Leno in the past couple of weeks. Fallon's shows have always featured the best musical guests of all the nightly American talk shows and he has ensured this has remained the same with his new posting. Recent weeks have featured appearances from the likes of Kanye West, Jake Bugg, Beck, Broken Bells, The Avett Brothers, Justin Timberlake and, as always, house band The Roots.

ABC2 will start showing the program from next Monday 24 March at 7.30pm each night. The program currently screens on Pay TV channel The Comedy Channel each night at 11pm, at a delay of roughly nine hours from when it screens in the US, but it is not yet known if the ABC2 screening will be of the show filmed just hours before or if there will be a further delay.

UPDATE: Both Foxtel and ABC have responded to theMusic.com.au this morning, clarifying the delay Australian audiences will experience on the respective networks. 

The Comedy Channel will continue to screen the program first in Australia in its already standing 11pm timeslot, as mentioned above. ABC2 will screen the show the day after the Foxtel channel, meaning it will show at just over a two day delay from when it first screens in the US.