Writing in Entertainment Weekly, King is quoted as saying:
"Leno is a nice guy, but his prime-time showcase was flavorless pabulum […] At 11:30, when most of America has gone beddy-bye, this kind of semi-comatose entertainment is fine (and viewers searching for something at least marginally less acerbic can always switch to Letterman), but in prime time? Oh, God, please no. My delight at the Leno Show’s failure sprang from a bone-deep conviction that it would not fail, that it would in fact turn into a ratings monster and spawn what network TV does best: imitations. And, nice man though he is, you could add together the entertainment value of every single episode of Mr. Leno’s prime-time venture and it would still come up short next to a single episode of The Good Wife."
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