Bon Jovi exclusive at NBC

Bon Jovi is set to appear exclusively on NBC to promote its new album, The Circle, over the next two months. Under the new initiative, dubbed "Artist In Residence," the band will visit only NBC shows, including, Today, The Tonight Show, The Jay Leno Show, Saturday Night Live and NBC Nightly News. Jon Bon Jovi also will appear on Inside the Actors' Studio, which airs on NBC Universal's Bravo channel. Apparently, it was Bon Jovi's idea to ink the deal. So he approached CEO Jeffrey Zucker, noting, "Of course you usually try to be out there everywhere when a new album is coming out. So we have to sacrifice certain shows and relationships. We hope this doesn't jeopardize any of them. But in a shrinking media environment you have to kind of re-invent the wheel."

NBC says it may make the "Artist in Residence" segments a regular feature on its shows.

The new Bon Jovi album will be released on November 10th.

Showtime will premiere a new Bon Jovi documentary on October 24th.