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We’ve had enough of the Jay Leno – Conan O’Brien soap opera.Why doesn’t NBC just fire O’Brien, put Leno back in the host chair of the Tonight Show, and move on?

Oops, forgot, there’s all that money, somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million they will have to pay the miffed O’Brien if they bounce him off the show even though, God knows, he’s doing everything in his power to get fired.

It’s obvious NBC will give Leno anything he wants and he wants the Tonight Show back now that his ill-fated Prime Time five-days-a-week debacle is headed for the scrap heap of television history.

O’Brien took over the top-rated late night talk show and turned it into a third-place show so in a medium ruled by ratings, the move should be a no-brainer.

Yet NBC is dragging its feet.

Why?