Carson Daly and girlfriend Siri Pinter are expecting their first child together.

Who knew Carson even had a girlfriend?

Daly’s lady love, an NBC producer who has worked on Last Call (natch) and Last Comic Standing, is about midway to term, and the child is due in the early spring. The couple have been dating a little more than a year.

A new baby will be one more reason for the 35-year-old host of Last Call With Carson Daly to stay up late.

“They’re both thrilled,” says rep Heather Lylis. “He’s always wanted to be a dad, and he’s excited about the holidays and spending them together with family and friends.”

With Daly being such an avid cyclist, “friends are already looking for bike helmets for the little one,” jokes Lylis.

Daly is also host of the upcoming New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly on NBC.

Congrats Carson and Siri!

 

Total Request Live has been canceled after ten years, MTV confirmed on Monday.

“We want to close this era of TRL in a big celebratory way, and 10 is a great number,” Dave Sirulnick, executive producer of TRL told the Associated Press. “This feels like the right time and let’s celebrate it and let’s reward it.”

He added “Let’s let it have a little bit of a rest for a minute. Been working hard for 10 years!”

Hmm…rest for a minute? It sounds like TRL might return to the airwaves in a few years.

The music video show will wrap in a two-hour special on a Saturday in November.

TRL first debuted in September 1998.

The show peaked in 1999 with 757,000 viewers tuning in daily, according to Nielsen Media Research, the AP reported.

For the finale, expect to see TRL favorites including former VJ Carson Daly.

“Folks who helped make TRL what is, whether that’s Justin, and his guys in N’ Sync, the Backstreet Boys, Britney, Eminem – I think we would love to see all of them here,” Sirulnick told the AP.

“I’m going to miss TRL,” rapper Eminem said in a statement. “Where else will I be able to start feuds, defend my honor vigorously and act like an angry teenager on national TV? Oh wait … The VMAs!”

TRL was one of the few times during the day that you could actually watch music videos.  Are there so few music videos that there is no reason for MTV to even have Total Request Live?  Or is this another step closer to MTV really showing that they aren’t much of a music-centric channel anymore?

“Saturday Night Live” veteran Jimmy Fallon was officially named on Monday to take Conan O’Brien’s place on NBC next year when O’Brien succeeds Jay Leno as host of “The Tonight Show.”

The announcement, which had been expected for weeks, was made during a press event from NBC headquarters in New York where O’Brien’s “Late Night” show is taped. I wonder what Carson Daly thinks about Jimmy getting Conan’s job. He must be pissed!

The appointment of Fallon, long considered a leading contender for NBC’s 12:35 a.m. time slot, completes a talent shuffle set in motion when the General Electric Co-owned network announced in 2004 that Leno would retire from “Tonight” in 2009 and that O’Brien would replace him.

“It’s going to be a grind, it’s going to be hard, but I’m going to go at it full force,” the boyish-looking Fallon told reporters on a conference call. “The fact that I’m stepping into David Letterman and Conan O’Brien’s shoes is very exciting.”

No mention of Leno? Ouch. Shouldn’t he have said Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien’s shoes?

Fallon said he also was excited to go back to work for Lorne Michaels, who was his boss as producer of “Saturday Night Live” and whose company co-produces “Late Night.”

Asked how much his new job would pay, Fallon joked, “I keep asking Lorne and he’s telling me not to worry about.

“They’re paying me enough,” he said. “I just want to live comfortably in Dubai.”

Fallon, 33, appeared on “SNL” for six seasons and was co-host of its “Weekend Update” segment. He left the program to focus on making feature films, although such efforts as “Fever Pitch” and “Taxi” fell flat at box offices.

His impending move to “Late Night” stems from a development deal he signed with NBC in early 2007.

Many details of the transition among nighttime TV hosts remain to be worked out, including exactly when the changes will take place.

Like Fallon, O’Brien, 45, cut his comedy-writing teeth on “Saturday Night Live” before landing the “Late Night” job, but he had far less on-screen time than Fallon.

O’Brien made his “Late Night” debut in 1993 after the original host of the franchise, David Letterman, jumped to CBS to go head-to-head against Leno, following Johnny Carson’s retirement from “The Tonight Show” a year earlier.

Leno, 58, is said to be privately unhappy about his planned departure and rival networks are unofficially courting him.

NBC executives say they are still looking at various options for keeping Leno in the network fold, including a possible move to prime-time television.