Six Ways "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" Plans to Change TV Forever

Walking into Gavin Purcell’s office at 30 Rockefeller Center the first thing you notice is his computer monitor. It’s a 52-inch flat screen mounted to the wall across from his desk. The desktop background is a picture of a Sega Light Phaser.

Ladies and gentleman, the co-producer of NBC’s “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon”–debuting Monday–is a geek.

Or at least the former producer of G4′s Attack of the Show, is geek-y. He’s not stuck in a basement somewhere uploading pictures to 4chan, but he knows what 4chan is.

The point is that Gavin and his team are bringing a new sensibility to the business of making a late-night talk show. It’s one that they developed by living in an Internet-connected world. “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” will be a talk show for the Twitter era.

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