+Video Movies | March 29, 2012

Anchorman Sequel Finally Coming, Says Ron Burgundy

By Stephanie Abrahams

On Wednesday evening, Will Ferrell stopped by Conan in character as Ron Burgundy for an important announcement: Paramount Pictures will make a sequel to 2004′s Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.

+Television | November 4, 2011

Watch Now: Last Night on Conan, the Return of Triumph (and a Wedding)

By Claire Suddath
Conan on the last night of his New York stand

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog is back! America’s favorite foul-mouthed, cigar-smoking puppet has returned

+Television | November 1, 2011

Get Ready New York: Conan O’Brien is Back

By Claire Suddath
Meghan Sinclair / Team Coco

Conan continues to struggle in the ratings, yet people were camped out at 5 a.m. to see the first of his New York shows.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | August 19, 2011

The Morning After: A Louis CK Encore on Conan

By James Poniewozik

I’m not sure if I’ll get a chance to write up last night’s Louie this morning, but after it aired, former Late Night with Conan O’Brien writer Louis CK also showed up on TBS’s Conan to chat with his old boss. (It was also, you’ll recall, as a guest of Conan’s on NBC that Louis [...]

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Tuned In+Tuned In | August 10, 2011

Team Loco Alert: TBS Cancels Lopez Tonight

By James Poniewozik

After two years–and a move from 11 p.m. to midnight to make room for Conan O’Brien–TBS is canceling George Lopez’s talk show, Lopez Tonight. The last show is tomorrow, so it’s going to be a busy 24 hours of finale writing. I can’t say I’ve watched the show extensively in recent months, but Lopez fans [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | May 3, 2011

Bin Laden's Death, The Comedy!

By James Poniewozik

The killing of Osama bin Laden presented late-night comics an opportunity, as well as a challenge: how do you satirize good news? Jimmy Fallon (above), went the tried-and-true route of spoofing his network’s own programming, with a response to the news from “Donald Trump,” who complained that President Obama had deliberately interrupted Celebrity Apprentice. (“Where [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | March 15, 2011

Conan O'Brien's TV Show That Became a Stage Show Becomes a Movie

By James Poniewozik

Been watching Conan O’Brien’s new TBS show but long for those early rebel days when he was unemployed? When the beard was new and we were young and his career became an act of improvisation? When he was an outsider and only you and the five jillion people who followed him on Twitter really “got” [...]

+Uncategorized | February 10, 2011

The Night Shift – Quick, Who's Funnier: Will Forte's Ted Turner, or Any Current SNL Character?

By Steven James Snyder

I ask the question in all seriousness, as someone who has been left aghast by this truly abysmal season of SNL. As one host after another has been squandered, as one irksome recurring character after another has killed time, Saturday Night Live has grown increasingly lazy and uninspired. I now tune in for Weekend Update [...]

+Uncategorized | February 4, 2011

The Night Shift: Howard Stern Revives the Late Night Wars, Guns For Leno

By Steven James Snyder

Now that Conan O’Brien is back on television, one might be forgiven for thinking the late night wars were behind us. But in recent weeks, Howard Stern has made a return to the talk show circuit, and has come out swinging, reviving the vitriolic Letterman-Leno-Conan dustup. And he’s held no punches about what he thinks [...]

+Uncategorized | January 25, 2011

The Night Shift: Larry King Breaks It Down For Conan – Stand-Up Comedy, Fashion Guru Ryan Seacrest, World’s Best Bagels

By Steven James Snyder

Larry King was on a ROLL last night on Conan, leaving the host dumbfounded when he wasn’t about to fall out of his seat laughing. The strangest assertion of all had to do with Ryan Seacrest and denim.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | January 13, 2011

TCA Roundup: Conan Is Over It, But Not That Over It

By James Poniewozik

More headlines from the Television Critics Association press tour out west: * Don’t expect Conan O’Brien to make a Super Bowl commercial with Jay Leno this year either. * Glee’s Heather Morris is ready to do more parody videos. And she has her own Flipcam now, so she can make that happen. * Kevin Reilly [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | January 5, 2011

The Winner of the Leno-Letterman War Is… Nightline?

By James Poniewozik

We’re coming up on the first anniversary of the Jaypocalypse, which I know brings up a lot of fond memories for all of us. So The Live Feed has checked in to see where the late-night ratings have settled in after the dust cleared, and it turns out that the leader in the fourth quarter [...]

+Uncategorized | November 18, 2010

The Night Shift: Conan Gives Fans A Mission – And Reminds Us How Late Night Has Become an All-Day Affair

By Steven James Snyder

Something notable is changing about the relationship between late night television programs and the fans who watch them. Once upon a time, the back and forth was based around consistency and  familiarity. People would kick back in the recliner, lay back in bed, and tune in to see their old friend Johnny, Dave and Jay. [...]

+Uncategorized | November 10, 2010

The Night Shift: Conan Ups the Antics, Literally Pulls Out All The Stops (Video)

By Steven James Snyder

Okay, so let’s get this out of the way at the top: I’m a big Conan O’Brien fan, and I’m thrilled the red haired one has returned. But was I the only one who thought the opening night show was a little…meh? The cold open video, repurposing Conan as Sonny from The Godfather was hilarious. [...]

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Tuned In+TV Ratings | November 9, 2010

Conan Night One Beats Networks, By Stealing Their Young

By James Poniewozik

The ratings are in for the first night of Conan on TBS, and Conan O’Brien has plenty to be happy about. The big headline everywhere will probably be “Conan Beats Jay”—and yeah, I could not resist a variation on that here—but that’s probably not a big deal in the long run. Yes, Conan got 4.2 [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | November 9, 2010

Conan Returns: Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before

By James Poniewozik

So I don’t know if you’ve heard about it, but Conan O’Brien lost a job last January. No, I’m serious! But I understand if you’ve been busy, so the first episode of O’Brien’s new TBS talk show, Conan, helpfully filled you in. The opening video—very funny, and very much in the spirit of one he [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | November 8, 2010

It's C-Day: Will Team Coco Come Home? Will the Beard Stay?

By James Poniewozik

Ten months after the Jaypocalypse, a beard, a stage tour and much drama later, Conan debuts on TBS. For all the hype around the show, and the news around how the show came to be, what we’re actually going to see on air has remained a fairly tightly held secret. I don’t have answers. But [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | November 5, 2010

Letterman Defeats Leno! Stewart Defeats Both!

By James Poniewozik

Conan O’Brien‘s new talk show debuts on TBS next Monday, which is sure to raise memories of the whole ugly scene last January when NBC threw over O’Brien at 11:35 p.m. for Jay Leno. (As will the timely publication the same day of Bill Carter’s Jaypocalypse dirt-disher, The War for Late Night.) But whatever you [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | November 3, 2010

TV Roundup: Dino Trouble, Fox Tsunami, Mini Conan

By James Poniewozik

* Let me make clear that, for all I know, Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi/time-travel/dinosaur show Terra Nova for Fox may be the greatest thing ever created for television, if it comes to exist. But it continues to make the kind of news you don’t want an upcoming show to make. First it was announced before a [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | October 29, 2010

Weekend Reading: How Jay Beat Conan (and NBC)

By James Poniewozik

When the Jaypocalypse began to unfold at NBC last January, I doubt there was a person who covers TV who did not think: Well, there’s another book for Bill Carter! Indeed, the New York Times TV-beat guy—who immortalized the Leno-Letterman fight for Tonight with The Late Shift—is coming out with a sequel of sorts (The [...]